So going into cerebral, I just thought I was going to be making a difference, like helping

people with anxiety and depression.

Two years ago, a startup called cerebral set out to shake up the mental health industry.

We were going to make quality, affordable mental health care easily accessible.

We're going to make the world a better place.

Cerebral saw a gap in the market.

I kept calling therapists, people weren't calling me back, and then finally I stumbled

across cerebral.

The idea was for patients to connect with clinicians and therapists virtually and get

prescriptions for medications, all online.

That is a very slippery slope that could go very wrong.

Prescribing highly regulated drugs like Xanax, Ambien, and Adderall helped the company grow,

drawing hundreds of thousands of patients.

If some former employees say that growth got in the way of some patient care.

And now, the federal government is investigating how the company did business.

They offered to pay you more money if you were willing to prescribe Adderall.

Yeah.

I'm not going to ruin somebody's life because you want to increase your numbers, and that's

what I felt it was like.

My son is not Anthony, my son is patient 8.5292-7.

That's my son to them.

Cerebral says it has helped thousands of patients get much needed access to mental health

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