How Does Technology Help to Improve Mental Health & Illness?

In any given year, 1 in 5 employed US adults experience a mental health issue like depression, anxiety, and insomnia. COVID19 has pushed the world into an uncharted territory as it has proved to be a perfect storm of stressors -- Right from job loss, economic instability, home schooling, food & health insecurity to the uncertainty of when (or even if) life will return to normal. A simple example -- 33 million jobs lost as of May 7, 2020 – huge financial stress, lock down multiplied domestic violence etc. In just a few months, Covid19 has just doubled the stat of the population affected mentally. Hence, mental health needs urgent addressing and some cool innovative technology solutions are coming to the rescue.