Members can interact with each other on the app, which launched on the App Store on May 10th, in two ways: by attending community- led audio support groups and by anonymously posting their daily thoughts and reflections to Chill Pill's judgement-free journal feed.īy creating a culture where members can only share about their own experiences and how they can relate to others, where they are not permitted to provide advice or give feedback to other members, Chill Pill has managed to create a community that one of their members describes as "safe, open, supportive, and so welcoming. "I feel this sense of community and freedom to be myself and to be vulnerable that I haven't found anywhere else," says one of Chill Pill's teenage members, who has been attending and leading Chill Pill's peer support groups for the past 9 months.Ĭhill Pill describes its community as a safe, online space for female-identifying, non-binary, and gender-fluid Gen Z'ers to work on their mental health. Since then, Chill Pill has managed to do something very few other consumer social apps have been able to do - create a safe, welcoming, online community for teenage and young adult women to talk about their mental health and support each other through their tough times and bad days.
Or at least that's what the founder & CEO of Chill Pill, Hayley Caddes, set out to prove when she raised over $2m for her audio peer support mental health app for Gen Z women in the summer of 2021. NEW YORK, /PRNewswire/ - Mental health shouldn't be depressing.