Can you imagine that a professional fighter pilot will have acrophobia? Many people in modern society will be afraid of small things that are not lethal, such as grasshoppers or moths, and even more afraid of jumping from the tenth floor. This kind of mental illness is seriously afflicting many people's lives. But now, VR is expected to cure this type of mental illness.
Recently, a newly established startup company at Oxford University is trying to use VR to treat mental illness. They apply VR therapy to various psychological treatment scenarios such as phobia, analgesia, and post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
Daniel Freeman, founder of the company, is a professor of clinical psychology at Oxford University. He has studied VR for 16 years. The reason he likes VR therapy is simple: "In most cases, vr technology can be used. Because in the end, every mental health problem means dealing with a real-world problem. VR can create for the patient The trouble scenes, instructing them to respond to questions in other (appropriate) ways."
More than just Freeman's company, Limbix, a startup team based in California, is also experimenting with mobile vr technology and live action video capture to provide psychologists with technical solutions to help treat patients with anxiety. This therapy is based on traditional exposure treatments. Dr. Sean Sullivan, the company’s director of psychology, said: “This is an exposure therapy for the 21st century. VR can make patients as close as possible to real life without having to enter the real world.†:Exposure therapy is common and effective in the past and used in post-traumatic stress disorder and phobia.)
In fact, more than 10 years ago, psychologists began to try to use VR exposure therapy to help people relieve anxiety. However, VR devices at the time were very expensive and cumbersome and could not be widely used. Today, doctors only need to spend 70 US dollars to buy Google's mobile VR headshot Daydream View, used for similar psychological treatment and research.
However, although VR can theoretically be used for psychotherapy, if there is no psychologist's help and guidance, VR developers should be careful to create this content and avoid unnecessary trouble.
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