It's Depression Mode. I'm John Moe. I'm glad you're here. We are losing an entire dimension

for mental health care. And I mean that literally. It's always been a three-dimensional proposition.

You go to an office somewhere,

big comfy chairs for a therapist, maybe something a bit more medical for a psychiatrist.

You show up and you are in the space with another person, in 3D. Then COVID happened.

Therapy went online. Psychiatry, especially for routine things like checkups for

medication refills, that went online too. Patients showed up for more appointments, since they

didn't have to travel. Providers weren't bound by distance as much. And from what I've heard,

a lot of therapists are now giving up their offices.

They're planning to do distance only from now on.

Welcome to the future.

And it shouldn't surprise us.

The reduction of dimensions has happened in other fields.

You've seen a lot more movies than plays, right?

You've watched more sports on TV than in person. The 3D experience is great

sometimes, but it's complicated and it's expensive. It's easier to just watch TV. Well, things

might be on your monitor now or your phone instead of the television, but that's just the new

arrangement for mental health care. We're not going back. It's not a fad.

It's a revolution. We called up Dr. Anthony Sassong. He's a child psychiatrist and an instructor at

Harvard University. He's also chief medical director for behavioral health at Amwell, an online

health platform. He's as expert as they come on the subject of

telepsychiatry. Before I talked to Dr. Sassong, I watched a YouTube video of a talk that he gave

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