“9 out of 10 students indicate that their campus is in a full-blown mental health crisis. Prior to Covid, 10% of all of our visits were focused on mental health. And at this point, close to 80% of all of the visits that we have with students are our related to mental health,” says Luke Hejl, CEO of TimelyMD, the leading virtual health and well-being solution for college students.
Read MoreEnd of 2021 the regulators in healthcare are on board with VR, progress is happening on the software and hardware side, so where is VR at the moment in terms of development, challenges, and accessibility for health and medical purposes?
Read MoreMartin believes digital health support solutions are welcome, as many patients, especially men, feel looking for a psychotherapist would be a sign of weakness. Mental health still holds a certain level of stigma and publishing stories and support groups online can reach those that might have been unreachable otherwise.
Read MoreMany patients report that the absence of joy is even more painful than the presence of sadness, and the inability to engage in goal-directed activity is amongst the most crippling manifestations of the disease. Depressed people have little drive to accomplish goals, and they tend to lack persistence.
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