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Check out Tom Insel at the NatCon17 conference! (Featuring a 7 Cups Shout-out!!)

User Profile: Laura
Laura May 9th, 2017

Hey Everyone!!

Thomas Insel is an American neuroscientist and psychiatrist who led the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) from 2002 until November 2015. This past April, he gave a powerful talk at the National Counsel Conference! The video of this talk is pretty remarkable and we'd like to invite you to watch it. Insel highlights the challenges faced by mental health providers, the system at large and the effectiveness of the current efforts to treat mental illness.

Additionally, Insel discusses how technology can play a more integrated and deliberate role in the mental health field, helping to establish better treatment and outcomes for those who need them most. He uses 7 Cups and our community as an example of a one such technology! It is incredible to see our community featred in his talk! It gives our work more context and meaning! It reminds us how important the work we do every day at 7 Cups is!

We hope you enjoy this talk! Keep up the good work! We couldn't be helping as many people as we do without each and everyone of you!

Watch the video here!

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User Profile: Heather
Heather May 9th, 2017

This is awesome!!

User Profile: Isaac
Isaac May 9th, 2017

Wow!

User Profile: ladylazarus1971
ladylazarus1971 May 9th, 2017

Can't wait to watch. It sounds fascinating!

User Profile: Snowflake50
Snowflake50 May 9th, 2017

@Laura

This video is helpful. I've downloaded a mood tracking app now too. It's so cool to be able to help yourself before crisis

User Profile: soulsings
soulsings May 9th, 2017

@Laura I love the concept of free mental health but three quarters through the video they actually called out 7cups for doing a great job in just this way. Very encouraging video.

User Profile: Annie
Annie May 10th, 2017

Wow, wow, wow!

Tom Insel's presentation is interesting, practical, sensible, and smart. Based on facts. Open-minded to an amazing extent. I learned a lot.

And what he says about 7 Cups? Yowza!! That's more than a shout out, it's practically a paeon. He spends several minutes talking about what 7 Cups does, and how hundreds of thousands of people are participating on their smartphones and laptops. He showed charts with statistics. He's clearly impressed.

And he's got immense stature and credibility in the mental health community, having been a leading physician/scientist at the National Institutes of Health for many years, heading up the National Institute of Mental Health.

I felt so happy and proud to see this.

Wonderful.

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discreetTortoise1525 May 10th, 2017

Looking forward

User Profile: Teagan
Teagan May 10th, 2017

@Laura

This is great!

User Profile: AutumnLeigh
AutumnLeigh May 11th, 2017

@Laura

Another wonderful promotion for our site! So awesome to see awards and speeches that help spread the word to others! heart

User Profile: NothingGold
NothingGold May 12th, 2017

Really, really enjoyed this video! It's well worth the time spent watching it. So glad to see 7Cups getting some good recognition too! Great work 7Cups!