新聞/文章  March 18, 2025

Could AI Help Solve Our Mental Health Crisis? (2023)

The National Institute of Mental Health reports potential in using mental health apps with AI in the following six areas:

• Social support (connecting you with people like you anonymously as well as helping you to manage social situations with prompts)
• Cognitive improvement (encouraging greater awareness of cognitive thought patterns such as rumination)
• Skills training
• Symptom tracking
• Passive data collection (aggregating data to show you trends and help you spot oncoming symptoms or other problems)
• Self-management, per one report. (To help you understand how well you are managaing your self-care—exercise, sleep, diet—for overall wellness and for purposes of symptom control)

The higher the patient engagement and self-monitoring and the easier it was to use, the greater the likelihood of its efficacy compared to traditional psychiatric treatment.

People in crisis are likely more vulnerable because in a desperate attempt to get help, it may be more difficult to discern if they are speaking to a chatbot who is helping them, or connecting with a robot sounds like a human but who may be causing harm due to their lack of ability to manage or address a serious mental health problem.

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