But were you ever to suggest talking to a therapist, you'd be hard-pressed to find many service members who would take you up on it. In the military, getting mental health treatment is viewed as a weakness - which, besides the negative stigma, is just plain wrong. There were soldiers who'd give therapy a try, only to leave after a single session and say, "I don't feel better. I need to get back to the unit. I need to help out. This is an hour out of my time when I could be spending that with my family."
But, I soon realized, to get soldiers into therapy and keep them there, they needed to see - physically, with their own eyes - the progress they were making.
I read up on research that showed how you can use EEG technology, which measures electrical activity in the brain, to also measure one's emotions. That was when a light bulb just went off, like, "Holy shit, you could make mental health as black and white as a broken arm."
So I developed NeuroFlow. The idea is simple: Give therapists a technology that uses basic and affordable medical supplies, like EEGs or heart rate monitors, to examine the health of their clients. That way, patients could see how their heart races - literally - in real time as they talk about something traumatic. And then, over the course of their sessions, they would be able to see their heart slow down and return to a more relaxed state as they healed.
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