Israeli entrepreneur Omer Golan often jokes that while his colleagues at his mental health platform, MyWhatIf.com, have Ph.D.s, he personally earned his PTSD. His PTSD came from being a suicide bombing survivor, and he’s used the experience as the basis of a novel AI-driven therapy for others who are enduring PTSD symptoms.

When Golan signed up for military service, as required of Israeli youth, he served in a social work unit. “One day, while in the West Bank at a café, I heard someone whisper in my ear,” he remembers. “The next moment, that person detonated 15 pounds of explosives right next to me.”

Flames engulfed his shirt, and, in desperation, he threw himself on the bomber’s body to extinguish the fire. Despite the horror, Golan was able to summon a spark of dark humor. “I thought, ‘Oh my God, I survived a terrorist attack, and now I’m lying on the bloody body of someone who might give me an STD!’”

That was his last conscious thought until he woke up a........

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