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180. Beat Anxiety, Addiction, and Stress—How VR is Changing Mental Health with Daniel Andreev
Here's my interview with Daniel Andreev, CPO from PsyTech VR. He tells the story about how his company got started and how virtual reality is being used to treat various forms of mental health disorders from OCD, PTSD, to phobias of all sorts.
Andreev covers lots of cool ways VR can help people work through mental health issues. Here are the big ideas:
VR takes fear-facing to the next level - it's safer and feels more realistic than imagination. This works much better to treat phobias, anxiety, OCD and more.
VR boosts EMDR trauma therapy through perfectly-timed sensory cues tuned to each…
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