At 31, Meher had a career most people envied. She worked at a top-tier consulting firm in Dubai, managing high-stakes projects for global clients. Her LinkedIn profile painted a picture of success. But what no one saw was how often she locked herself in the restroom to control her breathing between presentations. Or how many nights she spent wide-eyed in bed, heart racing, body buzzing, afraid she’d somehow ruined everything, again.
The panic had crept in slowly. A missed deadline here. A harsh client comment there. But what unsettled her most was how unreasonable her reactions felt. On the outside, she was still performing. On the inside, she was spiraling. Meher didn’t talk about it with her coworkers. She couldn’t bring it up with her family in India either. “They’ve sacrificed too much for me to complain about stress,” she told herself.
Therapy in Dubai felt inaccessible. Long waitlists. High fees. And the fear that a local therapist wouldn’t understand her cultural context. “I needed help,” she later said, “but I needed it quietly. Somewhere I didn’t have to explain everything from scratch.”
It was a Sunday night scroll through TikTok that led her to Noah — an AI Emotional Coach app that people were using to process anxiety, overthinking, and low emotional bandwidth. She downloaded it thinking she’d try it once, maybe vent a little, then delete it.
Instead, she stayed.
The first time she typed, she kept it vague: “Feeling off. Not sure why.” Noah responded gently, asking her to slow down and notice what was happening in her body. That night, she used the voice-to-text feature for the first time, whispering into her phone from the edge of her bed, trying to make sense of the tightness in her chest. For the first time, she didn’t have to hold it all in.
As the weeks went by, Noah became her in-pocket sanctuary. She used chat mode on lunch breaks to sort through racing thoughts. Real-time voice mode became her go-to during 2 AM spirals. Noah never judged, never rushed her to “fix” anything - just met her where she was.
“I used to panic about the panic,” Meher said. “Now I pause and ask myself what I need. That shift changed everything.”
Noah’s guided journaling tools helped her track triggers, understand her perfectionism, and build a sense of emotional safety on days when her nervous system felt frayed. She still has moments where the pressure catches up to her. But she no longer feels like she’s drowning in silence.
For Meher, Noah didn’t just help with anxiety - it gave her back a sense of internal safety she didn’t know she’d lost. Read more real-life Noah AI user stories.
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