🧠 MindMate – A Mental Health Chatbot

MindMate is an intelligent, sentiment-aware mental health chatbot that engages users with empathetic, uplifting, and supportive responses. It uses NLP (via Facebook's BlenderBot), sentiment analysis (via TextBlob), and a React interface to help users feel heard and understood.

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🚀 Features

• 🤖 AI-generated responses using facebook/blenderbot-400M-distill
• 💬 Real-time chatting with contextual awareness
• 🌈 Sentiment-based tone adjustment (uplifting, supportive, or neutral)
• 🎨 Visually appealing React frontend

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🛠️ Tech Stack

Backend:

• Python
• Flask
• Flask-CORS
• Transformers (BlenderBot)
• TextBlob

Frontend:

• React JS
• CSS for styling

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🧪 How It Works

1. User inputs a message on the React frontend.
2. Message is sent via POST to the Flask backend (/mindmate).
3. The backend:
   • Analyzes sentiment using TextBlob.
   • Adjusts the response tone accordingly.
   • Generates a response with Facebook's BlenderBot.
4. The response is displayed back in the chat UI.

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💻 Getting Started

1. Clone the Repo

git clone https://github.com/your-username/mindmate.git
cd mindmate

2. Set Up the Backend

📦 Install Dependencies
cd backend
pip install flask flask-cors transformers textblob
python -m textblob.download_corpora

🚀 Run the Flask Server
python app.py