Dr David Burns through the feeling great book and feeling good podcast have had a very large positive impact on my mental health for essentially 0 cost on my end. While the feeling good app is still in beta, maybe it’s worth reaching out to him (or other mental health app makers) about trialing the app in a low income country. Running a rct may be cheaper in the developing world. If app based interventions work, I’m sure the app creators would be very pleased and I imagine they may be willing to distribute freely in certain regions in exchange for the good publicity.
Skye Nygaard
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Great to see this post! I similarly felt that self help could be almost as effective and more scalable after engaging with Feeling good/great by Dr. David Burns. He has an app coming out soon that might be a good candidate for this type of work.