Rather on practical consequences, decisions on where to draw the line must necessarily rest not on any abstract definition that clearly separates the two. Will including a completely new disorder in DSM, or changing the threshold for an existing one, result in more harm or more good? That’s true now and will remain true into the distant future until we finally have biological tests in psychiatry. It’s an interesting fact that the pipeline for the other disorders is dry, in a few years, there might be lab tests for Alzheimer’s. No bright line marks the boundary between illness and health. Notice that at the fuzzy border, it’s impossible. At the extremes, it’s easy to diagnose mental illness accurately and to distinguish it from normality. Here’s the big problem. Companies innovating mental health this year are making measurable steps to improve the quality of life for millions of patients around the country -and the world.
Whenever improving and innovating mental health through leveraging technology is vital, with quality of life at stake, though perhaps a lofty goal.
These technologies are proving that mental health innovation is gaining traction to change lives, despite these are just four of the many emerging technologies seeking to innovate the mental health space.
Others technologies watch include 1DocWay, Rise Up + Recover, SoberGrid, and more. Actually, of the many new companies developing technology to creatively provide solutions to treat mental health problems and promote mental health wellness, we’ve got four to watch in 2016. Mental health technology was lagging behind, with telemedicine technologies booming in the health care sector.