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That's good feedback and there is a lot of snake-oil in the industry in general, which is why we base our app around evidence-backed practices such as CBT ( as mentioned in the post, there's much evidence that CBT-based apps are beneficial e.g. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5727354/ ). I think you're getting at an open question for regulators, which is the ongoing regulation of "wellness" apps, a category which this app currently falls into. The EU actually published a green paper about the Digital health space several years ago, in which they touch on the "wellness apps" space, with an possible eye to potential stricter regulation in future, although they are yet to enact anything in this space. https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/library/green-paper...

The ultimate long term aim for the company is to actually work towards regulation as a medical device as this also unlocks more ways in which the app can be distributed (e.g. through healthcare systems).

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