Connected Care: Avatar Therapy Special Edition
27 years of hearing voices that said she wasn’t worth living as a human being. Then she put on a VR headset and talked back. Five years later: silence, finally.
Connected Care Special Edition: Neurotech
Neurotech is moving fast. What is it? Why do you care…if your loved one has serious mental illness…you might want to know.
Connected Care: Regulatory Special Edition
Five states ban AI therapy. Others allow it with rules. Nobody agrees. Meanwhile, 1 in 6 adults — 1 in 4 under 30 — already quietly use AI for mental health help.
What Psychosis Feels Like From the Inside — And Why That Matters for Technology, Too
I want to point you toward something I think a lot of families and clinicians in this space will find valuable: a three-part live webinar series called Humanizing Psychosis, led by schizophrenia advocate, writer, and trainer Sally Littlefield. Sally teaches from lived experience — her own psychosis, hospitalization, treatment, and recovery — and the series […]
Connected Care Weekly | 14 July 2026
SAMHSA, AI, and research updates!
Connected Care Weekly newsletter | 14 June 2026
Your Loved One’s Psychiatrist Is Using AI. Does Anyone Know How?A story in this week’s news should matter to every family navigating serious mental illness — yet most won’t see it.— A new report from Behavioral Health Business landed this week with a headline that stopped me cold: Behavioral Health Orgs Are Adopting AI Faster […]
Connected Care Weekly Newsletter | May 24, 2026
If you’re reading this, you’re probably someone who loves a person with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, or another serious mental illness. You’re also probably exhausted, and looking for anything that helps. That’s exactly who I write this for — because I’ve been there too. Here’s what happened in mental health technology this week — and why […]
Connected Care Weekly Technology News for the Serious Mental Illness Community
This week: the evidence for digital mental health tools keeps getting stronger — but so does the question of whether we’re building technology that actually serves people, or just technology that’s easier to deploy.
Connected Care Weekly Technology News for the Serious Mental Illness Community
Connected Care Weekly News At-a-Glance.
The Secret Strength of the Invisible: What Caregiving in Silence Taught Me
It started with an email. A friend wrote to me recently, not with news or a question, but with a quiet truth: *“I’ve felt so lonely in the most crowded places.”* She wasn’t talking about being alone. She was talking about being unseen — present, but invisible. And as I read her words, I realized […]