Mental health—5 essential learnings in my first 6 months of tackling this space

as Tara Thiagarajan, founder and chief scientist at Sapien Labs, told the Washington Post, this well-being crisis is “not an isolated issue of one country. It’s a global issue.”

These technological advances come at a time when the need for mental health care is particularly acute: According to a report from the National Alliance on Mental Illness, one in five adults in the United States experienced mental illness in 2020. And the numbers continue to climb.

In the U.S. alone, 46% of people will experience some form of mental illness over the course of their lifetime. This is driving our nation to spend $238 billion annually on mental health treatment and services, up more than 100% from 2005 levels. Democratized by providers like Modern Health (employee wellbeing platform), Real (digital therapy membe... See more