Mental health support in Plymouth and where to reach out for help
From charities and support groups in Plymouth to helpful apps, there are many places you can receive support, help and advice for mental health problems
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Many of us will unfortunately experience mental health problems throughout our life - but there are dozens of places to provide support and advice to help you through.
The pandemic has thrown up a number of challenges for all of us, from being unable to spend time with our friends and family, financial worries and just being out of our usual routine.
The Mental Health App Marketplace is a Mess, Researchers Find
Harvard psychiatrists perform a comprehensive analysis of the mental health apps marketplace and find misinformation.
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The issues commonly associated with mental health apps are made worse by misleading app marketplace metrics. In response, a team of Harvard psychiatrists led by John Torous has created an assessment framework and a public database of hundreds of apps to extend previous research into apps’ limited functionality and clinical utility.
To assess these apps, the researchers developed an assessment framework that they have since made publicly available as a database called MIND (the Mhealth Index and Navigation Database). They write: