By skyforbes 
This 60-second trick cured my anxiety.
Dr. Julie Smith was walking through a forest, talking to her phone like a crazy person.
It was November 2019. TikTok was still the app where teenagers did dance challenges. Mental health professionals stayed far away from social media — too risky, too unprofessional, too… public.
But Dr. Julie had a problem that millions of people shared.
Mental health support was broken. Traditional therapy had a massive access problem. Nearly 1 in 5 adults in the U.S. experience mental illness each year, but only about half receive treatment. Wait times stretched for months. Costs soared beyond reach.
She’d been running her private practice for nearly a decade. One patient at a time. One hour sessions. Helping people, yes. But slowly. Quietly.
Meanwhile, millions of people were struggling with anxiety and depression, posting about their pain on the very platform she was now nervously filming on.
There was a rule — the biggest rule — every therapist learns on day one of training.
Never give advice without seeing the patient.