Dramatic growth in mental-health apps has created a risky industry

Re:Dramatic growth in mental-health apps has created a risky... by yosito on Monday December 20, 2021 @08:55PM (#29632910)

> When I first joined BetterHelp, I started to see targeted ads with words that I had used on the app to describe my personal experiences

Selling data from therapy sessions to advertisers is downright abusive!

Personally, after an initial good experience with BetterHelp, and then a hiatus, I had to stop using them because all of their therapists became evangelists for Critical Theory and were literally telling me that I ought to feel guilty for my race and gender, and work to atone for it. To be fair, I think this is a bigger probelm with the APA and not BetterHelp specifically. But a therapist who cannot abstain from judgement should not be a therapist.

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Re:Dramatic growth in mental-health apps has created a risky... by porknubbins on Monday December 20, 2021 @09:46PM (#29633222)

Wow unless you were specifically bringing up racial issues as a personal problem I can’t even imagine how that would come up. I went to a therapist for years and had no idea what his politics were.

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Re:Dramatic growth in mental-health apps has created a risky... by ljm on Tuesday December 21, 2021 @11:23AM (#29638876)

That is remarkably unprofessional for someone who should be a qualified clinical psychologist, not to mention that it is completely unempathetic and lacks compassion.

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