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Well, there's a computer game[1] for people with depression that teaches them to change though patterns, and at least according to preliminary results, it success rates are much better than that of a therapy.

And, there's the field of persuasive technology that works on building technology to help people change behavior. According to wikipedia, there are numerous studies showing changes in health behaviours.

So i wouldn't rule out computers inspiring people(which seems like an interesting problem to think about/work on).

[1]http://pandodaily.com/2013/06/25/a-game-thats-better-than-th...