Dr. John Torous

I think it's important that we all just tell each other what we're doing.

And I promise you clinicians will be excited.

If your clinician is not excited, contact me.

I will contact your clinician.

I'm not going to promise.

We, again, it's hard to know the exact number of people, say, using mental health apps or AI chatbots.

It's at least 25% of people.

It's one in four.

This is not rare.

It's really common.

It may be up to 50% have at least tried it once to done it.

So what I at least tell clinicians is, again, if you're not asking people what they're using in these tools, you're kind of missing half the people are going to have it.

So I think the stigma still exists, but it's a lot more common than all of us think.

I think the biggest opportunity is really going to first start in using these tools to improve psychoeducation and resources and self-help around mental health.

You can always go to the bookstore since probably the printing press exists and get a self-help book and go through it.

That was effective.

Regulators were happy of that.

People were happy.

It was hard to get through self-help books.

They don't work for everyone.