Your mental health can’t always wait until an appointment becomes available at the campus health clinic. So, we turn to the resource immediately available to us: our phones.
There is an app for practically everything now, including personal mental health. There’s an array of apps providing counseling services, such as Talkspace, BetterHelp, Wysa, and Youper. These apps immediately connect you with meditative exercises, AI chatbots, or a live counselor.
But this connection comes with strings attached.