Connected Care: Special Announcement
Teva’s new clinician site says most schizophrenia patients stop taking daily pills — and most relapse anyway. Here’s why long-acting injectables deserve an earlier conversation.
What a New Pediatric Crisis Study on Technology Tells Caregivers of People With Serious Mental Illness
Shocking new data: nearly one in five pediatric psychiatric crises now involve digital media, and those cases are twice as likely to end in hospitalization. Caregivers, take note right now.
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.
Connected Care Newsletter 31 August 2026
AI-AI-O. The new version of E-I-E-I-O.
But, AI chatbots are increasingly under inspection for psychosis. GOOD.
Connected Care News | 21 August 2026
This week: could Meta’s landmark $567M ruling extend to AI chatbots? Plus, why the most rigorously tested AI therapist still isn’t available — while copycats already are.
Meta Just Lost a $567 Million Case. AI Therapy Chatbots Could Be Next
The most dangerous thing about your AI chatbot isn’t what it says. It’s that it’s built to never disagree with you. $567 million. That’s what a court just said bad product design costs. AI therapy chatbots should be nervous.
Connected Care News | 11 August 2026
This week: California debates banning AI “therapists,” researchers name the exact pattern behind chatbot harm, and a psychiatrist explains why the human relationship still matters most.
Connected Care Weekly | 1 August 2026
Warnings on AI chatbots. Interesting research coming out of Canada. Ukraine doing mass studies across thousands of sessions. Interesting, exciting, nerve racking!