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Bullied woman develops app to help others



At the age of 17, Alexis McDonald started developing an app from scratch to help women's mental health that ended up saving the lives of its users. 

The Daily Mail reports during her last year at school, when she was supposed to be studying for her ATAR exams, the now 20-year-old was learning to code to create HerHelp, an all-in-one wellness app to provide mental health support to women. 

Alexis, from Bunbury, WA, was motivated to develop HerHelp, which has amassed more than 10,000 downloads, after being severely bullied during her school years and finding her experiences were not unique. 

The website says HerHelp allows users to ask others for advice and document their mental health and self love journeys and give them access to learn from professionals in a range of industries including nutrition, fitness, finance, sexual health, and fashion.

Alexis has just relaunched HerHelp in a new-and-improved version with hundreds of professional resources designed entirely by her after being quoted $2.2million by an app developer.

Read the full report here.

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