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APPS

Suicidal Ideation/Self-Harm:
notOK
notOK is a free app developed by a struggling teenager (and her teen brother) for teenagers. The
app features a large, red button that can be activated to let close friends, family and their support
network know help is needed. Users can add up to five trusted contacts as part of their support
group so when they hit the digital panic button, a message along with their current GPS location
is sent to their contacts. The message reads: “Hey, I’m not OK! Please call, text, or come find me.”

My3 – Support Network
My3 is a crisis support app for people who have suicidal thoughts. The app features a contact list
to call in case of emergencies. The list includes three of the user’s trusted contacts, 911 and the
National Suicide Hotline. My3 also includes a safety plan which lists coping strategies and
distractions. It’s one of the best apps that help teens with mental health struggles that include
suicidal ideation.
Calm Harm
Calm Harm provides tasks to help users resist or manage the urge to self-harm. The app
contains five categories to help you fight the urge to self-harm. Each category includes five to
15 minute activities. These activities turn users’ attention to healthier ways to handle emotions
and impulses.

Understanding and Supporting Your Mental Health:

What’s Up
What’s up is an amazing free app that uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Acceptance
Commitment Therapy (ACT) methods to help you cope with Depression, Anxiety, Stress, and
more. Use the positive and negative habit tracker to maintain your good habits, and break those
that are counterproductive. We particularly love the “Get Grounded” page, which contains over
100 different questions to pinpoint what you’re feeling, and the “Thinking Patterns” page, which
teaches you how to stop negative internal monologues.

Mind Shift
Mind Shift is one of the best mental health apps designed specifically for teens and young
adults with anxiety. Rather than trying to avoid anxious feelings, Mind Shift stresses the
importance of changing how you think about anxiety. Think of this app as the cheerleader in
your pocket, encouraging you to take charge of your life, ride out intense emotions, and face
challenging situations.

Self-Help for Anxiety Management (SAM)
SAM might be perfect for you if you’re interested in self-help, but meditation isn’t your thing.
Users are prompted to build their own 24-hour anxiety toolkit that allows you to track anxious
thoughts and behavior over time, and learn 25 different self-help techniques. You can also use
SAM’s “Social Cloud” feature to confidentially connect with other users in an online community
for additional support.

Happify
Need a happy fix? With its psychologist-approved mood-training program, the Happify app is
your fast-track to a good mood. Try various engaging games, activity suggestions, gratitude
prompts and more to train your brain as if it were a muscle, to overcome negative thoughts.

MoodTools
MoodTools aims to support people with clinical depression by aiding the path to recovery.
Discover helpful videos that can improve your mood and behavior, log and analyze your thoughts
using Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) principles, develop a suicide safety plan and more with
this free app.

Headspace
The Headspace app makes meditation simple. Learn the skills of mindfulness and meditation by
using this app for just a few minutes per day. You gain access to hundreds of meditations on
everything from stress and anxiety to sleep and focus. The app also has a handy “get some
headspace” reminder to encourage you to keep practicing each day. ($12.99/Month or
$9.99/Year for students)
** FREE headspace meditations during COVID-19 crisis: https://www.headspace.com/covid-19

Calm
Calm is quickly becoming regarded as one of the best mental health apps available. Calm
provides people experiencing stress and anxiety with guided meditations, sleep stories,
breathing programs, and relaxing music. This app is truly universal; whether you’ve never tried
meditation before or regularly practice, you’ll find the perfect program for you. ($12.99/Month)
**Calm also has a “Calm Kids” section in the app where younger kids can learn calming
techniques.

Ten Percent Happier
Want to sleep better, find relaxation, be more mindful and, well, ten percent happier? This is the
app for you. Ten Percent Happier has a library of 500+ guided meditations on topics ranging
from anxiety and stress to parenting and sleep, as well as videos, bite-sized stories, and
inspiration you can listen to on the go. New content is added weekly so you’ll never tire of
having to do the same meditative practice again and again. ($12.99/Month)

Pacifica
Pacifica helps teens break the cycle of ongoing negative thoughts. It does this by using tools that
target stress, anxiety, and depression. The app consists of psychologist-designed tools based on
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, mindfulness meditation, relaxation and mood/health tracking.
Pacifica also has a paid option that allows users to work with a mental health professional
through the app.

MoodPath: Depression & Anxiety
MoodPath helps teens to detect symptoms of depression. Three times a day, users receive a
question about their emotional well-being. After two weeks, users will receive a professional
assessment. They can then share that assessment with their healthcare professional.

Smiling Mind
Smiling Mind is a FREE mindfulness meditation app developed by psychologists and educators
to help bring balance to your life. Just as we eat well and stay fit to keep our body healthy,
mindfulness meditation is about mental health and looking after the mind. Our programs are
designed to assist people in dealing with the pressure, stress, and challenges of daily life.
Stop, Breathe & Think

Make regular check-ins with yourself on your emotional wellbeing a habit with Stop, Breathe &
Think. This meditation app begins every session asking you to identify how you’re feeling both
mentally and physically that day, and offers a tailored meditation based on that. A setting just for
teens focuses on the issues you encounter in school and relationships and offers real solutions.
Expect to find mindful breathing techniques, plus tips to recapture your kindness if you're feeling
particularly agitated one day.

Centered
This app recognizes the power of physical activity in battling anxiety. Not only does Centered
encourage you to take time to breathe and meditate, it also wants you to get up and get moving
since physical activity can seriously reduce stress. Apple Watch users can also have notifications
sent to their wrists reminding them to take a few minutes for a mindful walk or meditation. Now
that's what we call bliss.

Aura
Aura walks your teen through 3-minute meditations to help you calm and destress. You let Aura
know how you're feeling, and the app chooses the best meditation for you. Aura also offers
mood tracking and daily reminders for breathing exercises.

Reflectly
How you are feeling on a daily basis matters. Reflectly is a personal journal and diary driven
by artificial intelligence to enable you to deal with negative thoughts, make positivity louder
and to teach you about the science of well-being.

Breathe2Relax
We know that the power of the breath is amazing and can take a body that is ready to run or
scream, and calm it down. Use this app, described as a "portable stress management tool", to
help your child to use deep breathing exercises to decrease the experience of anxiety. The deep
breathing exercises ("belly breathing") not only decreases the experience of anxiety but creates
distraction from anxious thoughts that negatively impact focus and ability to complete tasks.

Mind-Tastik
A Meditation app for: Anxiety, Stress, Self-Help, Relaxation, and Sleep. They have created a
special section dedicated to COVID (Coronavirus) Meditations to help you cope with stress &
anxiety during this stressful situation.

Shine
The Shine app is your support system for daily stress and anxiety. Learn a new self-care strategy
every day, get support from a diverse community, and explore an audio library of over 500+
original meditations, bedtime stories, and ambient music to help you shift your mindset or mood.

Breathing Zone
Discover Mindfulness, one breath at a time. Integrates with Apple's Health app to record your
completed breathing sessions Mindful Minutes.

Relax Melodies
Mix and listen to over 52 different relaxing sounds with background sound support — this
app can be used while using other apps!

Colorfy
The mindfulness colouring book has become digital! Colorfy provides flowing and relaxing
shapes and patterns for you to colour, allowing you time out from the hustle and bustle of
everyday life.

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