#wysa

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reframing toxic positivity

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*Privacy Not Included review: Wysa

Wysa describes itself as "an emotionally intelligent chatbot that uses AI to react to the emotions you express." Launched in 2016 by founder

Just noticed that my favorite free mental health app, Wysa, brought in top marks from Mozilla for the second year in a row:

Good news! One year later and Wysa is still really good at privacy! Wysa still doesn't track users for advertising, collect lots of personal information for targeted advertising purposes, share or sell lots of data with third parties, or generally be an awful company who doesn't respect privacy. Good work Wysa! Keep being a leader on privacy for all to see! Lord knows, we need many more companies like Wysa out there.

Oh, one more thing we love about Wysa. They have one of the best privacy policies we've ever read. Lots of clear, useful information, and a nice tracking of when they've made updates to the policy and what has changed. When we ask companies to write better privacy policies, this is one we hope they will look to for guidance.

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All Worked Up - Wysa - Everyday Mental Health

All Worked Up - Wysa - Everyday Mental Health

In October 2022, we commissioned an independent survey of over 1,000 American employees to get an in-depth look at the current state of mental health in the workplace post-COVID. The results are staggering. There are serious, debilitating symptoms that our workforces are silently struggling with. The struggle also translates into absenteeism, reduced productivity, and downstream medical claims.

In the survey, we uncovered employee uncertainty around communicating mental health struggles with their employers, why they haven't sought professional help for what they are presently struggling with, and employee sentiment towards digital mental health tools.

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Happy to be flying home on National Stress Awareness Day, very on-brand for me.

On a more serious note though, Wysa are good people, check them out.

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Today, I’m grateful for my far-away friends. And for Wysa which helped me through the pain I endured at the hands of my abuser.

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Wysa raises $20 million to expand its therapist chatbot into a wider set of mental health services

Wysa, a popular mental health app originally founded in India around an AI chatbot that helps users talk through their feelings, has raised $20 million in a Series B funding round to expand its business on the heels of hitting 4.5 million users in 65 countries.