Dr. John Torous

You don't have to pick the one that you see first that has the most marketing.

And be skeptical.

And you can almost test drive them out, right?

A lot of them are free to download or have free trials.

There's no reason not to give them a shot.

The evidence actually supports sometimes the ones that work the best are the ones that you stick with or are most engaging for you, which is different than your friends, your family.

even you in the past or future.

So give them a test drive.

And we have a website, mindapps.org.

It doesn't index every mental health app, but we have read the privacy policy for you.

So you can kind of say, show me the ones that have a privacy policy, show me ones that don't.

And if you're in doubt, clinicians would love it if you said, here's an app I'm considering I'm using.

Don't be shy about bringing it up in the clinical visit.

Clinicians know these exist.

They know AI exists.

There's no harm.

No one's going to judge you by saying, hey, I tried this chatbot.

What did you think of it?

I tried this app.

What do you think of it?