Please find various useful apps and resources to support your mental health here, and get in touch if you have any questions.
APPS OFFERING PRACTICAL SUPPORT
WorryTime
ReachOut WorryTime is an app for managing the time you spend worrying. It will help in:
- containing worry to designated periods
- reducing worry or generalised anxiety
- improving self-reflection and problem-solving skills.
This involves teaching yourself to contain worry to designated periods. Based on the theory that constant worry is an embedded thought pattern that can be changed with practice, the exercise of scheduling a time to worry helps you to practice better thought habits – such as being aware of thought patterns, letting go of thoughts that are not constructive by postponing them, and applying problem solving techniques during the scheduled worry times.
Virtual Hope box
The Virtual hope box (VHB) contains simple tools to help people with coping, relaxation, distraction, and positive thinking. People can use the VHB to store a variety of multimedia content that they find personally supportive in times of need. E.G. family photos, videos and recorded messages from loved ones, inspirational quotes, music they find especially soothing, reminders of previous successes, positive life experiences and future aspirations, and positive affirmations. People can create coping cards to use for dealing with personal problems. Overall it provides a number of positive activity planning, distraction tools, and interactive relaxation exercises including guided imagery, controlled breathing and muscle relaxation.
AntiStress Anxiety Relief Games
AntiStress anxiety relief game is here! Now you can play the most relaxing game to release stress or anger. This is a pack of free antistress games including many fun games such as bubble popper, bubble wrap, and fidget spinner. The game includes a lot of bubble popping and diversion therapies, so you won’t run out of options. Everything from drawing boards, wind chimes, colour therapy, hourglasses, brick smashes are included!!
Breath Ball
Helps you to relieve stress and anxiety, soothe the symptoms of COPD and Asthma, lower high blood pressure and overcome sleeplessness with four easy breathing exercises.
Stop panic
Covers methods to manage panic and get relief from anxiety. Relaxation, mindfulness, and teaching audios. Mood log and analysis, cognitive diary, healthy goals & more are all included to cover a range of different techniques and preference!
Calm Sleep
The calm sleep is the world’s only free sleep app for relaxing sleep sounds and ambiences that will improve your sleep or make your short naps more effective. Sleep sounds in the app are recommended & verified by top sleep experts. It also offers short guided meditation exercisesvia music to help with anxiety. Perfect life-changing app for beginners who can take up 5 minutes, 10 minutes, 30 minutes, 60 minutes sessions to achieve mindfulness. The Calm Sleep app is perfect sleep app for those who want to achieve good sleep, quick & powerful nap, & also helps user to wake up smoothly. The calm sleep app teaches you to sleep well, wake up smoothly, & have strong quick nap to have better head space & focus on daily life things. Sleep well through sleepcasts, wind downs, sleep music, etc. Checkout the mini meditation courses for themed meditation.
Calm Harm
Calm Harm provides tasks to help you resist or manage the urge to self-harm. It can be both personalised and passworded. The app provides four categories of tasks to help you surf the urge. ‘Distract’ helps in learning self-control; ‘Comfort’ helps you care rather than harm; ‘Express yourself’ gets those feelings out in a different way and ‘Release’ provides safe alternatives to self-injury. There is also a ‘Breathe’ category to help calm and get back in control. You can do the activities for either blocks of five minutes or fifteen minutes with a countdown for each minute. You will be able to track your progress and notice change*.
feeling good positive mindset
This app provides a series of audio tracks designed to relax your body and mind and help build confidence, energy and a positive mindset. There is an option to purchase a 12-track Positive Mental Training audio programme to help recover.
insight timer
Guided meditation, make meditation a daily habit, music tracks/ambient sounds for relaxation, focus and better sleep, discussion groups/community features, progress tracker.