Japan to launch mobile phone psychotherapy

a university professor of electrical Japan announced on the 19th, the world's first mobile phone network based on the platform of psychological therapy has been available software, can help patients with depression. Local media reported that this interactive psychotherapy belonging to cognitive therapy, mainly through the principle of cell phone owners asked to sleep and eating habits, weight changes, emotional situation, in order to identify the owner of the degree of depression. Psychotherapy can also phone software to the owner to provide "solutions for depression," Professor how to help solve the problem, the physical and mental relaxation, and other ways to change the negative point of view to reduce the psychological burden. Keio University professor Yu Ono (who) is the psychotherapy of the mobile phone developers. He said: "I think that in time of need (treatment) would be helpful to people. Or, if they feel a little depressed, it can be used as the prevention of depression, the daily therapy." However, the mobile phone software, after all, can not replace conventional therapy. Yu Ono said: "The hospital has accepted the patients, it can be used as adjuvant therapy." Depression known as the "soul of influenza." There are about 900,000 Japanese people to accept the treatment of depression, but depression is much higher than the number of people troubled by the figure.