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Introducing @MelloHealthAI 11.11✨ That's when she sent me her last voice text. I felt like calling her back, but I didn't... because I thought posting a dev update for @0xOnlyCalls was more important than speaking to her. Next thing I know, she left us. She was just 20 I could have spoken to her one last time. I don't know what happened to her. The only thing she was suffering from was Bipolar disorder. She was taking consultations and meds... I don't know if she actually needed those meds. Life started feeling meaningless after that. I started hating being a degen. I tried focusing on OnlyCalls again and again, but the thought of not calling her back still haunts me every day. These past 5 months have been tough for me, but even tougher for my family. My days now start with doing therapy for my mom, and end with doing the same for my dad. I've tried at least 6 different therapists, desperately trying to help us cope with all this pain. Most of the time, therapists didn't have availability when I needed them the most. They probably had too many patients to take care of. What I've realized is that most of the time, you just need someone to talk to - someone you can trust, someone who truly understands and empathizes with what you're going through. I felt like a hopeless human who had lost touch with most things in life. Then I met @vibhanshur_ & @bullforareason in Dubai. They're probably some of the most beautiful souls I've encountered - ambitious, hardworking people who resonated with the pain I was experiencing and had their own struggles with mental health. That's how @mellohealthai was born. They found this problem worth solving I committed to invest 42.069K from @0xDegenfund into them to develop an MVP. The objective of this team is to collect feedback and release a product for PlayStore and AppStore to reach a wider audience. They've been working tirelessly day in and day out, while I was trying to help them. Soon I realised I was spending 80% of my time on this problem out of pure passion. From a business perspective: About a billion users today suffer with mental health issues. 85% of them don't even have access to proper care. Therapies are expensive and inaccessible for most people. The leading player in the mental health space earned $800M in subscription revenue this year alone. This is a huge market - a huge space with a meaningful cause behind it. Therapies and companionship have become the number one use case people are turning to LLMs for. The risks: Highly competitive landscape Retention is too low across all apps Most products aren't very effective I look at my phone sometimes, at that 11:11 timestamp, and wonder how many others are staring at messages they wish they'd answered. How many others are carrying that weight. Maybe our pain is the bridge to something greater. Maybe this is how we honour those we've lost - by making sure others don't have to face their darkest moments alone. I don't know if @mellohealthai will succeed where others have failed. But I do know that when someone reaches for their phone at 11:11, feeling like no one in the world understands their struggle, we want to be there. Not just with algorithms and chatbots, but with something that feels like genuine connection. Because at the end of all this tech, all this business talk, all these metrics and markets - it's about that voice message I never returned, and making sure that story doesn't repeat itself, again and again, across a billion silent struggles.