Opinion: Managing mental health tech’s blitzscaling blind spots
Pro basketball player Giannis Antetokounmpo told GQ magazine last month that he and most of his Milwaukee Bucks teammates were seeing a sports psychologist. Antetokounmpo, a two-time regular season MVP and a finals MVP, revealed that he meets with the sports psychologist “almost every day.”
His comfort speaking about his mental health speaks to what may be the waning reduction in stigma associated with mental illness, and awareness of it, among Americans. In 2012, when asked to select the most important health issue in their lives, 3% of those surveyed answered “mental health;” in 2020, that number had risen to 13%. A number of factors are responsible for the shift, not least of which is the rise in the reported levels of mental distress: in a survey conducted in 2020, the Census Bureau said that 33% of Americans reported struggling with clinical anxiety or depression.
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