Artificial intelligence is increasingly being incorporated into people's daily lives, including in mental health care in Canada. Many telehealth companies are using AI to give personalized health care to patients, and most use text as a main form of communication.
, which is where experts believe AI could step in.
"There is a huge shortage of therapists right now, not everywhere, but the reality of things is that not everybody can go to therapy and there's just not enough human capital to cater to the global problem of mental health," co-founder Alexandra Assouad said."So we need machine-reliable solutions to optimize where human capital is actually employed in therapy."
Dalia Ahmed, one of the founders of Mind-Easy and a psychotherapist, says the app is not there to diagnose or provide traditional talk therapy to users but instead focuses on preventative measures to boost one's mental health. Mind-Easy will send Bukair notifications reminding her to check in and complete an exercise. Sometimes the prompt will start by asking her how she feels that day and, based on Bukair's responses, the AI will give instructions." gave me a bunch of options to be like: What do you want to do with this calmness? Do you want to understand what calmness feels? Do you want to practice calmness?" Bukair recounted.
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