Depression: Apps
Headspace
This app provides guided meditations and mindfulness techniques targeting stress management, better sleep, and improved focus and attention. The free version is great, and there are also options for expanded subscriptions.
Tags: FREE, YOUTH, ADULTS MEDITATION, MINDFULNESS, STRESS MANAGEMENT, ANXIETY, DEPRESSION, iOS, ANDROID
Happify
Happify is an app that aims to help users reduce stress, anxiety, and negative thinking, and improve emotional well-being. Following a series of questionnaires, the apps suggests “tracks,” or groups of activities and games based in cognitive behavioral principles, mindfulness, and positive psychology, to help the user achieve their goals.
Tags: FREE, YOUTH, ADULTS, MEDITATION, MINDFULNESS, STRESS MANAGEMENT, ANXIETY, DEPRESSION, COGNITIVE BEHAVIORAL THERAPY, iOS, ANDROID
What’s Up?
What’s Up? is a useful app that offers different therapy methods to help you manage stress, anxiety, depression, and other conditions. Using this app, you can learn simple methods for overcoming negative thinking patterns, use the diary to track your thoughts, feelings, and habits, and try the app’s breathing exercises for staying calm and relaxed. All of these CBT-based techniques may be useful in supplementing eating disorder recovery treatments.
Tags: FREE, YOUTH, ADULTS, MEDITATION, MINDFULNESS, STRESS MANAGEMENT, ANXIETY, DEPRESSION, EATING DISORDERS, COGNITIVE BEHAVIORAL THERAPY, iOS, ANDROID
MY3
MY3 is a crisis support app for individuals who experience suicidal thoughts. Users can choose three trusted people from their contacts list to place on the app (911 and the National Suicide Hotline number are already listed). The app also guides users through creating their own safety plan, where they list warning signs, coping strategies, distractions, their “reason to live,” and more.
Tags: FREE, YOUTH, ADULTS, DEPRESSION, FAMILY, SUPPORT, SUICIDE, CRISIS, iOS