Depression and anxiety? Apps and Online Resources to rescue

We all have lives and at instances, it gets tough for everyone. Therapy doesn’t have to be extremely expensive, and sometimes visiting an online group is less scary than visiting in-person for some people.

Online resources and apps to help manage your mental health:

I. Anxiety

• Self-Help for Anxiety Management — Free for iOS and Android.
  You can build a personalized 24-hour anxiety toolkit, and track anxious behaviors and thoughts, and there are 25 self-help techniques you can learn. The “Social Cloud” lets you connect with other app users for support.
• MindShift — Free to iOS and Android.
  Targets young adults and teenagers with anxiety. It encourages users to face challenges, ride out emotions, and change how they think about anxiety.
• CBT Thought Record Diary — Free for iOS and Android. Document any negative emotions, reevaluate your thoughts and analyze and thinking flaws you see.
• Pacifica — Free for iOS and Android.
  You get a toolbox to help you deal with daily stress and anxiety, and there is a large supportive community. It can help you with unhelpful thought cycles and behaviors using mood tracking, mindfulness meditation, CBT, and relaxation.
• Iona Mind — Free for iOS and Android. This app will help you identify patterns and track your moods. It has a toolbox to help manage stress and anxiety, and there is a Smart Journal and Guided Mental Health Check-Ins.

II. Depression

• Mood Tools — Free for iOS and Android. This app supports people with clinical depression by having videos to help lift mood. You can use Cognitive Behavioral Therapy principles to log and analyze your thoughts, and there’s an option to develop a safety plan for suicidal thoughts.
• Talkspace — $65 to $99 a week for iOS and Android. You can text message licensed therapists as often as you need with this app. There are a couple and individual services, and your family and friends can download the app to learn support skills.

III. Generalized Apps

• 10% Happier — $12.99 a month for iOS and Android. It has over 500 guided meditations and videos on topics ranging from stress and anxiety to sleep and parenthood. They add new content every week, and there are small stories.
• Calm — $12.99 a month for iOS and Android. This app provides sleep stories, guided meditations, relaxing music, and breathing programs to help with anxiety or stress.
• What’s Up — Free for iOS and Android. It uses Acceptance Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help cope with stress, anxiety, and depression. There is a negative and positive habit tracker and a get grounded page that offers over 100 questions to help you figure out exactly how you’re feeling.
• notOK — Free for iOS and Android. Designed to be a suicide prevention app, you get a large red button that you tap to let family, friends, or your support network know you need help. You can add five contacts, and you’ll send an automatic GPS signal to them if you hit the button. It also sends a message that reads, “Hey, I’m not OK! Please call, text, or come find me.”
• Super Better — Free for iOS and Android. You can use this app to help improve your coping skills, create new healthy habits, complete meaningful projects, strengthen your relationships, and set goals.
• Wysa — Free to iOS and Android. This is a chatbot for mindfulness, stress, anxiety, and depression. You can track moods, and it incorporates cognitive behavioral therapy.
• Woebot — Free for iOS, Android, and PC. This is a chatbot that gives you step-by-step guidance to think through situations, track mood, and use tools from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy.

Online Therapy Apps

• BlahTherapy.com — You can talk to a stranger for free or talk to a trained professional from BetterHelp in unlimited sessions for $40 to $70 per week.
• iPrevail.com — This is a peer-to-peer model that will connect you to a trained peer specialist to talk or vent.
• Huddle- This is an app in the iOS store that gives you the chance to talk to people around the world in safe spaces.
• 7Cups.com — The therapy app has thousands of listeners, or there are paid versions for $12.99 per month with an average cost of $150 per month. They offer text and email-based support too.
• WeAreMore — Peer support app for free for people with chronic conditions who want to talk to someone who really understands. They also have a Therapy Finder feature.
• PsychCentralForums.com — This will help you find a therapist anywhere in the world. They also have a free therapy forum, weekly chats, social chats, and more.
• DoctorOnDemand.com — Free mental health assessment
• PrideCounseling.com — Accommodating and accepting therapy sessions for the LGBTQIA+ community, starting at $40 a week and going up to $70.
• ReGain.us — Individual or couple’s therapy with a licensed counselor for $40 to $70 per week.

Source:
-Healthline
-Reddit