#digitalmentalhealth — Public Fediverse posts

https://www.europesays.com/uk/908407/ Experts in Bengaluru call for dedicated department for research on mental health apps | Bengaluru News #BengaluruLatestNews #BengaluruNews #BengaluruNewsLive #BengaluruNewsToday #DigitalInterventions #DigitalMentalHealth #Health #MentalHealth #MentalHealthApps #MentalHealthResearch #NIMHANS #TodayNewsBengaluru #UK #UnitedKingdom

Experts in Bengaluru call for dedicated department for research on mental health apps | Bengaluru News

Bengaluru: Mental health experts emphasised the need for a full-fledged department or centre for applied res…
#NewsBeep #News #Mentalhealth #Bengalurulatestnews #Bengalurunews #Bengalurunewslive #Bengalurunewstoday #CA #Canada #digitalinterventions #digitalmentalhealth #Health #mentalhealthapps #mentalhealthresearch #MentalHealth #NIMHANS #TodaynewsBengaluru
https://www.newsbeep.com/ca/617241/

Experts in Bengaluru call for dedicated department for research on mental health apps | Bengaluru News

Bengaluru: Mental health experts emphasised the need for a full-fledged de…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Mentalhealth #bengalurulatestnews #Bengalurunews #Bengalurunewslive #Bengalurunewstoday #digitalinterventions #digitalmentalhealth #Health #mentalhealthapps #mentalhealthresearch #MentalHealth #NIMHANS #TodaynewsBengaluru
https://www.newsbeep.com/us/595965/

Experts in Bengaluru call for dedicated department for research on mental health apps | Bengaluru News

Bengaluru: Mental health experts emphasised the need for a full-fledged department or centre for applied …
#NewsBeep #News #Mentalhealth #AU #Australia #Bengalurulatestnews #Bengalurunews #Bengalurunewslive #Bengalurunewstoday #digitalinterventions #digitalmentalhealth #Health #mentalhealthapps #mentalhealthresearch #MentalHealth #NIMHANS #TodaynewsBengaluru
https://www.newsbeep.com/au/619537/

https://www.europesays.com/ie/444958/ Experts in Bengaluru call for dedicated department for research on mental health apps | Bengaluru News #BengaluruLatestNews #BengaluruNews #BengaluruNewsLive #BengaluruNewsToday #DigitalInterventions #DigitalMentalHealth #Éire #Health #IE #Ireland #MentalHealth #MentalHealthApps #MentalHealthResearch #MentalHealth #NIMHANS #TodayNewsBengaluru

[Event] On the 10th of October, Thomas Insel MD, psychiatrist and neuroscientist, will highlight recent progress in digital mental health and explore what it will take to ensure technology truly delivers on its promise: transforming care and saving lives for millions living with untreated mental illness.

🗓️ Friday, October 10 | 14:00-15:30
📍Forum Rolex, Rolex Learning Center, EPFL
➡️ Info & Registration: https://memento.epfl.ch/event/innovation-in-mental-health-2/

#EPFL #MentalHealth #DigitalMentalHealth

Digital therapy is a game-changer for anxiety relief in 2025. Let's highlight the top 5 digital therapy tools for anxiety relief.
#DigitalTherapyTools #AnxietyRelief #Teletherapy #MentalHealthApps #MentalWellnessJourney #MindfulLiving2025 #DigitalMentalHealth #MentalHealthSupport
https://www.scientificworldinfo.com/2025/04/top-digital-therapy-tools-for-anxiety-relief.html

Let's discover the top 10 best mental health apps for stress management in 2025 and understand why you should use these digital mental health apps.
#MentalHealthApps #StressManagement #MentalWellnessJourney #MindfulLiving2025 #DigitalMentalHealth #SelfCareMatters #WellBeingTech #CalmMind #MentalHealthSupport #EmpowerYourMind
#Headspace
#CalmApp
#Sanvello
#Moodfit
#Happify
#Talkspace
#MindShift
#BetterHelp
#InsightTimer
#Woebot
https://www.scientificworldinfo.com/2025/04/best-mental-health-apps-for-stress-management.html

Unlocking the Future of Mental Health: Holistic Trends Transforming Psychiatry

#MentalHealth #HolisticHealing #PsychiatryTrends #PsychedelicTherapy #GutBrainAxis #DigitalMentalHealth #CommunityWellness #IntegrativeMedicine #MindBodyBalance #MentalHealthInnovation #WellnessJourney #FutureOfPsychiatry

https://youtube.com/shorts/6T-Y_3hWqmU?feature=share

A time for @lebanon, a time for #DigitalMentalHealth.

draft - google, thanks for your many online platforms. for gmail, could we get the ability in gmail-gmail (gmail to gmail) messages, to be able to edit our sent messages? thank you

#editbutton
#gmail
#digitalfootprint
#digitalmentalhealth

@erictopol

1) #ArtificialIntelligence isn’t a
“wave” –  it's an “injection” – by #TechnoFascist #SiliconValley Billionaires [a few funded by a sovereign immune Trillionaire 🇸🇦]

2) if you're a #data harvesting corp or institution *not* doing #AI as picured below? – you're doing it wrong

#AI #ML #BigData
#AIEthics
#EthicalAI
#Health #HealthTech
#DigitalHealth
#MentalHealth
#DigitalMentalHealth
#MedMastodon
#Surveillance
#BioSurveillance
#SurveillanceCapitalism
#USpoli
#Privacy
#Democracy

Step-by-Step: promising digital app for Syrian refugees with depression https://www.nationalelfservice.net/?p=173310

Dafni Katsampa critiques a recent randomised controlled trial evaluating the effectiveness of Step-by-Step, a WHO-guided digital intervention for Syrian refugees with depression in Lebanon. #Depression #Refugees #Syria #Lebanon #DigitalMentalHealth

🎉 My article on #regulation of #digitalmentalhealth in the #EU and #Australia is featured in the latest issue of 'On the Radar' by the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care! 🎉
https://doi.org/10.1093/idpl/ipad009 https://www.safetyandquality.gov.au/publications-and-resources/resource-library/radar-issue-609

New publication out in #IDPL (International Data Privacy Law), discussing legal framework & #policy for #digitalmentalhealth in the #EU and #Australia #dataprotection #privacy #GDPR #DataProtectionCertificate #CodeofConduct
Excellent timing, given that both, the European Commission and the European Parliament, have announced their commitment to fostering a comprehensive approach to mental health in Europe!
https://academic.oup.com/idpl/article/13/3/207/7208850

Computerised CBT for youth anxiety and depression: a growing evidence-base https://www.nationalelfservice.net/?p=168027

Jemma Baker reports on a systematic review and meta-analysis investigating the effectiveness of computerised cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) for depression and anxiety in adolescents. 

#cCBT #CBT #Psychotherapy #YouthMentalHealth #Anxiety #Depression #Research #DigitalMentalHealth #UlsterDMH2023

‘Hey Alexa... get the f*ck out of my house”

👇

“How voice data is being used with AI to generate "predictive" medical diagnoses” | Boing Boing https://boingboing.net/2023/06/03/how-voice-data-is-being-used-with-ai-to-generate-predictive-medical-diagnoses.html

#AI #ML
#MachineLearning
#ArtificialIntelligence
#Audio
#Surveillance
#BioSurveillance
#Privacy
#Health
#HealthTech
#DigitalHealth
#DigitalMentalHealth
#SurveillanceCapitalism
#MedMastodon

This is like a gear or two falling off an oil derrick, strapped to your body, that persistently pumps your intimate personal #health #data into #Alphabet / #Google’s bank account…

“Some Google Pixel Watches are falling apart”
https://arstechnica.com/?p=1944115

#Health
#Fitbit
#Privacy
#Surveillance
#BioSurveillance
#Wearables
#SmartWatch
#DigitalHealth
#MentalHealth
#DigitalMentalHealth

Here's a Semafor story on how hela-awesome #MentalHealth #chatbots are for struggling TechBros:

“Startups are using #ChatGPT to meet soaring demand for #chatbot #therapy”
https://www.semafor.com/article/06/02/2023/startups-are-using-chatgpt-to-meet-soaring-demand-for-chatbot-therapy

Main job #JTBD of *ANY* chatbot is to harvest human interaction data to improve its own #AI #ML backend systems.

#BigTech LOVES vulnerable populations - even it's own.

#Health #AI
#DigitalMentalHealth
#Privacy #Surveillance
#PersonalData
#OpenAI
#AIEthics #EthicalAI
#AIBlitzkreig
#MedMastodon

Use of #MentalHealth #chatbots emerged from #BigTech #SiliconValley around 2012, many from academic project DNA. I’ve been immersed in the space ever since.

Key take away:

Late Stage Capitalism + omnipresent #SurveillanceCapitalism
(#TechnoFascist #VC #AI #ML #TechBros #ElonMusk #PeterThiel #SamAltman)
LOVE vulnerable populations.

"Eating Disorder Helpline Disables Chatbot for 'Harmful' Responses After Firing Human Staff”
https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjvk97/eating-disorder-helpline-disables-chatbot-for-harmful-responses-after-firing-human-staff

#Health
#DigitalMentalHealth
#MedMaston

@chockenberry

Not hard to imagine #Health
especially:
#MentalHealth
#DigitalMentalHealth
#XR #MR #VR apps in service of guided therapy for #OSI #PTSD #Addiction #Anxiety #Depression #MoralInjury etc. (now)

• yes, #Apple Dev focus on broad revenue & income is important

• positive health outcomes for individuals, patients, families = priceless

• as for niche verticals?
– warehouses full of $10K LaserWriters before Desktop Publishing (PageMaker & Quark)

@gruber
@asymco
#JTBD

Oct 2019 (90 sec)

My dream comes true that this story finally gets told...

Thank you #Apple
🙏

#Health #DigitalHealth #HealthTech #MentalHealth #DigitalMentalHealth #AI #ML
#HealthKit #CareKit #BigData #HealthAI #AIEthics #EthicalAI #Privacy
#ArtificialIntelligence
#MachineLearning
#SiliconValley #BigTech
#PersonalData #HealthData
#Surveillance #BioSurveillance
#SurveillanceCapitalism
#SmartPhones #Wearables
#MedMastodon #AppleWatch

90 seconds:

Vulnerable and At-Risk populations are the sweetest low hanging fruit of late stage capitalism…

“Data Brokers Are Selling Lists of People With Depression: Study” https://gizmodo.com/depression-anxiety-brokers-sell-mental-health-data-1850107119

#Health #MentalHealth
#DigitalMentalHealth
#Anxiety #Depression
#BiPolar #OCD #ASD
#ADHD #Addiction
#OSI #PTSD
#AI #ML #BigData
#PersonalData
#DigitalSelfDefense
#DataBroker
#Privacy #Surveillance
#SurveillanceCapitalism
#MedMastodon

@paul

Been following this space closely over 7 years.

#MentalHealth chatbots are a #privacy and ethical nightmare 😱 but there’s no shortage of institutions, researchers, #BigTech captured academia and #SiliconValley #VC's willing to prey on at-risk vulnerable populations.

"The Problem With Mental Health Bots” | WIRED
https://www.wired.com/story/mental-health-chatbots/

#Health #DigitalHealth
#DigitalMentalHealth
#ArtificialIntelligence
#AIEthics #EthicalAI
#Healthcare #OSI #PTSD
#MoralInjury #CPTSD
#MedMastodon #AI

@jdp23 @Wolven

IMHO: Sam Altman seriously runs the Martin Scorsese “Casino" Philip Green character vibe: an affable oligarch front man for #ElonMusk #PeterThiel & #OpenAI's incumbent #BigTech business partners

From an individual, family, patient and #privacy perspective: I'm taking everything Altman says with a dump truck of salt.

#BigTech #Health
#HealthTech
#DigitalHealth
#MentalHealth
#DigitalMentalHealth
#SiliconValley
#VC #AI #ML
#MedMastodon

There's no #BigTech #VC bottom here… and no vulnerable population they won't exploit:

"Alcohol recovery startups Monument and Tempest shared patients’ private data with advertisers” https://techcrunch.com/2023/04/04/monument-tempest-alcohol-data-breach/

#Surveillace
#BioSurveillance
#SurveiilanceCapitalsim
#PersonalData
#Privacy
#Health
#MentalHealth
#DigitalMentalHealth
#Addiction
#Psychology
#Recovery
#MedMastodon

Nope… and this #SiliconValley #BigTech #AI con job dates back to well before 2015:

“Would you open up to a #chatbot therapist?”
(BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-65110680

#Health
#Psychology
#ArtificialIntelligence
#MentalHealth
#DigitalHealth
#DigitalMentalHealth
#BioSurveillance
#SurveiilanceCapitalsim
#Privacy
#EthicalAI
#AIEthics
#MedMastodon

@docjohng

From individual, family, patient POV:
there's no bottom here

• +5 years academics, clinicians, health institutions, therapists, etc. have been singing praises of #BigTech #AI “magic beans" for #MentalHealth

• past +3 years have been a despicable cess pool of #SiliconValley #WallStreet MH startups harvesting / brokering #PersonalData

• elite MH institutions lapping up #BigTech research $’s for #DigitalMentalHealth over a decade

Dawn of #AI = time for #Privacy self-defence

@anthony
Paywalled but does this concept also cover neurodivergent and neurodiverse #SiliconValley #VCs? Serious & respectful question re: #Musk #Thiel. #MentalHealth has been my #HealthTech founder focus +6 years and #WallStreet has b0rked it badly over the past 3 (many examples). Thx 🙏

#ASD #Autism #ADHD
#OSI #PTSD #PTSI
#DigitalMentalHealth
#Health #Privacy #AI
#ArtificialIntelligence
#MedMastodon

@Shaunkoh @darnell

100% human agency = ability to permanently & irrevocably destroy your own, self-harvested-from-#wearbles, raw & post-#AI-analytic personal #health #data in any #HealthTech #DigitalHealth #DigitalMentalHealth scenario

So, as you can imagine: I’ve not been taking too many #SiliconValley #VC meetings 😉

#Privacy is a painful entrepreneurial path but so far so good… especially as people start mindfully unpacking inconvenient truths about #ArtificialIntelligence & #PersonalData

@wbm312

There's no vulnerable population #WallStreet won’t exploit…

#ADHD
#Health
#HealthTech
#DigitalHealth
#MentalHealth
#DigitalMentalHealth
#BigPharma #BigTech
#Surveillace
#SurveillanceCapitalism
#Privacy

@docjohng
Use of #OpenAI / #ChatGPT for #MentalHealth #Therapy doesn’t have a long way to go... it’s a #SiliconValley #VC #WallStreet commercial fantasy & human nightmare dead end.

Use on *any* #DigitalMentalHealth #AI requires;
• #privacy
• dignity
• legal frameworks
• data governance & trusts
• 100% data agency
– THAT ACCRUES TO –
• individuals
• patients
• families
– BEFOFE –
• researchers
• institutions
• #BigTech / #VCs

#EthicalAI
#Health
#DigitalHealth
#MedMastodon

@atomicpoet

This is OK because #SiliconValley #WallStreet and captured #Academic partners all say it’s OK. Absolutely no surprises here for anyone paying attention.

#DigitalMentalHealth, from an individual-family-patient-privacy perspective has been my #HealthTech founder jam +6 years.

There’s no vulnerable population the valley won’t exploit while claiming virtues of efforts.

Tech inevitiblism, institutional complacency and blind faith in #AI has been driving #MentalHealth over a decade.

@mikey @wall_e @jerry @BleepingComputer

Take your protein pills, put your helmets on and relax ‘cuz Elmo & Thiel's #OpenAI #ChatGPT plus derivatives will efficiently innovate the sh*t out of #MentalHealth for all of us🤦🏻‍♂️

Hate to be a Debbie-Downer but we remain in ethical free fall with no bottom in sight. Individual, patient, family and consumer self-defence is what I’m workin' on (#privacy centric #AI for MH) and it's a hard road.

#HealthTech
#DigitalHealth
#DigitalMentalHealth
#EthicalAI

@designative @apple @appleinsider

#Amazon from 2020 seems disturbingly way further ahead on this whole “body scanning with your #smartphone” thing than #Apple in 2023 seems to be – amirite? 🤦🏻‍♂️

Amazon Halo video
2020 (90 sec) 😳

https://appleinsider.com/articles/23/03/02/future-apple-body-id-could-increase-health-awareness-offer-diet-advice

#Privacy
#Health
#DigitalHealth
#HealthTech
#Wearables
#MentalHealth
#DigitalMentalHealth
#AI #ML #BigData
#PersonalData
#Surveillance
#BioSurveillance
#SurveillanceCapitalism
#AppleWatch
#iPhone #FaceID
#HealthCare
#MedMastodon

@drewharwell

Good round up of #SiliconValley #VC backed #MentalHealth apps & service f*ckery:
"The Therapy Equivalent of Uber”
https://www.metafilter.com/188197/The-Therapy-Equivalent-of-Uber

• there's no vulnerable population Wall St. won’t set crosshairs on

• #Therapy broker services a shitshow from Day1

• pending #OpenAI #ChatGPT et al for #DigitalMentalHealth = human nightmare & #VC wet-dream

We've entered the age of
‘consumer self-defence'
against all of this.

#Privacy
#Surveillance
#SurveillanceCapitalism
#MedMastodon

Forbes are *such* #Apple fanbois ;)

"Apple Hardware Will Change The Face of Consumer Healthcare”
https://www.forbes.com/sites/saibala/2023/02/25/apple-hardware-will-change-the-face-of-consumer-healthcare/

Clip:
Tim Cook to vacuous #WallStreet popinjay
• October 2019 (90 sec)

#Apple
#Health
#Healthcare
#HealthTech
#DigitalHealth
#MentalHealth
#DigitalMentalHealth
#MedMastodon
#Privacy
#AI #ML #BigData
#Amazon
#BigTech #VC
#Surveillance
#BioSurveillance
#SurveillanceCapitalism

This is my space. Lots of (lucky) humans have benefited from these services but #SiliconValley #BigTech #WallStreet approach to online #MentalHealth Services & Apps have been an ethical con-job and #PersonalPrivacy nightmare.

#Facebook #Meta #Healthcare #Therapy #Privacy #DigitalMentalHealth #MedMastodon #SurveillanceCapitalism #Health #OSI #PTSD #PTSI #Anxiety #Surveillance

Good round up of links here…
https://www.metafilter.com/188197/The-Therapy-Equivalent-of-Uber

#illuminaughtii 📺
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jO7-DvkiP7M

It's that day again...

This one goes out to *every* #healthcare worker, professional and manager on planet earth...

❤️

#ValentinesDay
#MedMastodon
#HealthTech
#DigitalHealth
#MentalHealth
#DigitalMentalHealth
#BehaviouralSciences
#OSI #PTSI #PTSD
#ADHD #CPTSD #MRI
#Addiction #Anxiety
#COVID19 #pandemic

There's no bottom here.
It's like handing out speeding tickets at the Indy500...
👇

"Drug discount app GoodRx agrees to pay $1.5M after the FTC said the company wrongfully disclosed intimate health information to Facebook, Google, and others"

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/01/business/goodrx-user-data-facebook-google.html

#Privacy
#Health
#DigitalHealth
#MentalHealth
#DigitalMentalHealth
#BigTech
#Google
#Facebook
#Surveillance
#SurveillanceCapitalism
#MedMastodon

#BigTech LOVES vulnerable populations… and can afford any lawsuits thrown at them for unethical #HealthTech f*ckery like this...

This is outrageous... and that's the point. Testing #AI fences

https://twitter.com/RobertRMorris/status/1611450197707464706

#Data = New Oil

Humans = Wells

ToS/EULA = Drill Bit

Brokers = Pipes

#AI #ML = Refineries

#BigData = Storage Tanks

#BigTech is an Extraction Industry

#Health
#MentalHealth
#DigitalMentalHealth
#MedMastodon
#EthicalAI
#AI #ML
#BigData
#Privacy

@mattblaze

IMHO new social mores & norms that seem to be emerging on #mastodon / in #fediverse are insanely welcome, useful and powerful.

• been muting, blocking and filtering here for a month

• 100% agency over #attention

• conscious, deliberate choices

• Block & Mute like no one's watching

• online #resiliency matters

👍 ☮

#TwitterMigration
#TwitterExodous
#MentalHealth
#DigitalMentalHealth
#Equanimity
#Democracy

Just published by
@themarkup
@STAT
supports my thesis:
#Data=NewOil
Humans=Wells
Brokers=Pipes
#AI #ML=Refineries
#BigData=StorageTanks

#BigTech=ExtractionIndustry
for most intimate #PersonalData that exists.

"Out Of Control: Dozens of #Telehealth Startups Sent Sensitive #Health Information to #BigTech Companies"

https://themarkup.org/privacy/2022/12/13/out-of-control-dozens-of-telehealth-startups-sent-sensitive-health-information-to-big-tech-companies

#Privacy
#Surveillance
#HealthTech
#DigitalHealth
#MentalHealth
#DigitalMentalHealth
#SurveillanceCapitalism
#MedMastodon
#HealthCare
#EthicalAI