HeartShip

Build a support network with HeartShip! Know that you are not alone. Discuss mental health hardships, physical problems or other issues with people experiencing the same thing as yourself. Messaging is anonymous, secure, and meant to be judgment free without fear of stigma or shame.
How to use HeartShip:
1. Create your account and type an anonymous pseudonym to display to other users
2. Enter your mental health, physical health or other issues
3. Find and message users that have shared issues as yourself in Matches
4. Update your status regularly to let friends and new matches know how well you are feeling or whatever comes to mind
5. Build a support network
Features
- Find people with the same issues, problems, or illnesses as yourself
- Match with users with shared issues such as ADHD, anxiety, bipolar disorder, bullying, cancer, depression, diabetes, an eating disorder, a sleeping disorder, or schizophrenia
- Build a support network by adding matches to your friend's list
- Post statuses that broadcast your feelings and thoughts
- Filter your matches by age, gender and shared issues
Goals
- Connect people suffering from shared hardships
- Give the families and friends of those with mental "illness" an opportunity to educate, learn and better understand the person they care for
- Share ideas and suggestions on how to manage or better care for an issue
- Reduce stigma for mental “illnesses" such as anxiety or depression
- Provide a safe space to discuss mental "illness" consequence-free
- Increase mental health awareness for schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and more
- Prove that no one is truly alone
About HeartShip
HeartShip's purpose is to let people know they are not alone in the world, that their hardships can be overcome. Depression and anxiety need not dominate anyone's life. Suffering from a major ailment such as those or bipolar disorder can be alienating. HeartShip provides a space for those individuals to
Users can vary from someone who has struggled his or entire life or to someone trying to understand a new hardship or to another user looking to learn to help someone they care about. Develop real connections on and help it become a community built on supporting one’s fellow person.
There are no current plans to monetize HeartShip. The app will not have traditional advertising and there will never be premium-only features. All users should have the same access to tools that can better their lives.
***Coming Soon***
- Inactive users made invisible in the matches section
- iOS version in late December or early January
- Profiles and Timeline (Q1 or Q2 of '17)
- Fixed bugs
Support or Follow:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HeartShipApp
Reddit: Coming soon
Patreon: Coming soon