Reimagining Mental Health Care Via the Neurological Power of Virtual Reality

" While the physical toll of COVID-19 dominates headlines, the pandemic’s impact on global mental health is an underreported, ticking time bomb that providers and insurers will be defusing for years to come. Anxiety rates have tripled since 2019; so too have depression diagnoses. Mental health professionals are stretched thinner than ER-workers, but there is no vaccine that they can inject into arms to slow the spread of COVID-related mental illness. Something has to change. As the Delta variant exacerbates uncertainty around physical presence, and employers struggle to welcome back workers who must transition their professional and personal lives to the latest version of “normal,” our health care system would be acting neglectfully in believing the status quo can handle:.." Lire la suite