Clubhouse and Mental Health
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Due to increased isolation, financial unpredictability and overall stress, the COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on psychosocial health. Due to the uncertainty surrounding COVID-19, individuals surveyed experienced increases in mental health symptoms including anxiety, depression and feelings of loneliness.
Because of this, there is no denying that social networking is more popular than ever. The Clubhouse app can function as a type of psychosocial rehabilitation that provides individuals with mental health concerns opportunities to engage within their communities through a variety of interested topics. In the Clubhouse app, users can choose from various topics of interest and chat about it with other users in the room. Those that have a speaker role in the room provide their opinions or thoughts to other users, including other speakers and audience members. At the same time, audience members may come up with other ideas and may be ready to raise their hand to speak. Therefore, this new form of communication makes a connection among people.
As speaker and certified trauma recovery coach Will Wissmiller says, “The superpower of Clubhouse is its ability to allow humans to be emotionally naked, with supports and help each other grow.” Indeed, words alone have the power to give and take life, so it definitely can help people in this way. Finally, Clubhouse as a medium or platform has provided to users who want to express their emotions and rehabilitate their mental health symptoms, and users as a kind of productivity has provided topics and contents to Clubhouse, which forms a loop.
Bailun Xu
