https://www.verywellmind.com/virtual-reality-exposure-therapy-vret-2797340 Exposure therapy is considered to be a behavioral treatment for PTSD. Exposure therapy targets behaviors that people engage in (most often avoidance) in response to situations or thoughts and memories that are viewed as frightening or anxiety-provoking.3 For example, a rape survivor may begin to avoid relationships or goingContinue Reading

Apple wants to make Siri a better therapist. http://google.com/newsstand/s/CBIwhMuzgzY http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-09-16/apple-hiring-siri-engineer-with-psychology-background/8952318 The technology giant said the successful applicant would “improve Siri in these areas” and “play a part in the next revolution in human-computer interaction”. Last year, a US study found personal voice assistants “responded inconsistently and incompletely to simple questionsContinue Reading

http://betanews.com/2015/12/29/i-am-depressed-technology-is-my-lifeline/ I’ve always been quiet, prone to dips into the depths of gloominess but having been that way for as long as I can remember, it became easy to accept it as the norm — but things started to get too much for me. In the bleak spiral of blackness,Continue Reading