Juna Bobby MD, EdMFounder, MindBodySpace LLC · RELAX TO SOAR™️ Method Workshops • Mindbodyspace Podcast • NYU SOM M.D. • Harvard Ed.M. • Juilliard Resilience Faculty

2 Mental Health Micro-Skills Tested on 7,500 People #Shorts

16 Sept 2026 · 1 min

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Dr. Juna Bobby tested 12 mental health interventions on 7,500 people. Only two worked: teaching concrete skills like challenging negative thoughts or overcoming fear to make friends. Actionable techniques beat everything else.

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How can we give as much information as possible about how to improve your mental health to someone in 5 or 10 minutes? We took these 12 interventions and then randomized 7,500 people we recruited online to complete one of those 12 interventions. We learned which of those interventions significantly reduced depression a month later. 2 of them significantly reduced it. Actually learning an implementable skill, like how do you challenge negative thinking or how do you overcome that like initial fear to going out and like making a friend, things like that seem to be more impactful.