This is the future of your mental healthcare, as imagined by Sentio Solutions, a San Francisco-based tech company:
You will wear a sensory wristband that tracks your sweat, skin temperature and blood flow. Something—a chewing out from your boss, a reminder of a traumatic experience, an anxiety attack—increases your pulse rate and activates your sweat glands. The wristband signals to an app on your phone and a notification asks you to choose your feelings from a menu of words, like “distressed,” “sad,” and “content.” Your phone then tasks you with a breathing or journaling exercise. Maybe it recommends an online article on coping strategies.
As for appointments with a licensed therapist? They would be condensed to a weekly 15-minute video chat with one who has access to your data. “It’d be like calling up your [primary care provider] and saying, ‘My glucose level is so high. What do I do?’” Sentio Solutions CEO George Eleftheriou told Motherboard.
This loop between physiological input, algorithms, and mostly automated interventions is called the Feel Program, and it’s currently in its testing stages.
Read more at Vice.
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