Gamified psychiatry

-1 Post author: Clarity 12 January 2016 12:16AM

I have been thinking about the gamification of psychiatry and the rise of mental health apps as a means to motivate behaviours that improve mental health and flourishing. I put together some indications and left a diagram here for my good friends Anne Osognosia and Alex Ithemyia who want to upgrade elements of their mental health based on my personal experience rather than population-based evidence.

Initially I wanted to create a skill tree of sorts and may return to it if some people with app-building experience and an interest in this raise their hands. That would be for evidence-based skills rather than this proof of concept.

Comments (12)

Comment author: Elo 12 January 2016 07:30:56AM 2 points [-]

can you post a higher resolution version? Or send me one?

Comment author: mare-of-night 17 January 2016 01:42:46AM 0 points [-]

I second this.

Comment author: Gleb_Tsipursky 12 January 2016 02:33:35AM 2 points [-]

I'm surprised by the downvoting on this one. This seems like a good idea. I'm curious about the motivations of people who downvoted. Can someone who wants to downvote please explain your motivations? Thanks!

Comment author: [deleted] 12 January 2016 05:52:39AM 6 points [-]

I didn't downvote, but I can see why people would. Clarity often seems to post half-baked ideas that assume people have all of his background knowledge and don't give any clear calls to action or indication of what sort of response he's looking for.

Comment author: Gleb_Tsipursky 12 January 2016 06:26:52AM -1 points [-]

Ah, thanks for clarifying! I didn't realize there was a systematic trend going on.

Comment author: rpmcruz 29 January 2016 07:24:49PM 1 point [-]

"may return to it if some people with app-building experience and an interest in this raise their hands"

I would be interested. :)

Here is a couple of Android games I did: https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=Ricardo+Magalh%C3%A3es+Cruz

It's something simple done over a weekend for fun. I am a machine learning researcher.

I would be interested - but I would like to know more about the project and the people involved...

Cheers :)