Managing Your Mental Health

• Help Guide
  • Provides evidence-based articles, self-help tools, and reading for 21 topics for teens, adults, parents, and elderly
• Antidepressant Skills Workbook for Teens
  • Interactive workbook that offers a step-by-step self-care guide with antidepressant skills for teens managing depression or concerned family members, friends, or partners
• Just for Teens: A Personal Plan for Managing Stress
  • Educates young people about stress, triggers, and stress management. At the end, a worksheet is provided to create a personal stress and self-care management plan
• Looking After Yourself
  • Offers workbooks for self-guided techniques to improve mental health. Topics include: assertiveness, sleep, procrastination, self-esteem, depression, anxiety, self-compassion, body dysmorphia, perfectionism, and more.
• Woebot App - The Mental Health Ally
  • Provides support for people with depression or anxiety. Provides daily check-ins and lessons to help them change some of their thought patterns
• Decatastrophizing
  • Offers a worksheet for those struggling with anxiety and exaggerating their problems, by addressing irrational thoughts
• Brown Stanley Safety Plan Template
  • Guides you through a step by step worksheet on how to safety plan for those with suicidal thoughts
• CBT Guide to Depression Self-Help App
  • Incorporates a lot of CBT methods like a mood log, cognitive diary, emotion training, daily goals, etc.
• Bearable App
  • Best for symptom tracking
• Youper App
  • Helps users with mood tracking and coping skills for a range of emotional problems in an interactive format with a chat bot
• Distress Tolerance
  • Offers guidance on handling and accepting situations that are out of our control  
• Virtual Hope Box
  • Free app that was developed by the VA but is for any adolescent or adult. It has proven, health coping skills
• Safety Plan App
  • Free app that allows people to put their safety plan in and also includes reminders to remove things from their environment that they could use to harm themselves. It also includes tips on moving towards recovery and some links to resources (although it’s a small list) as well  

APPS: Finding Relief

• Calm: Meditation to help manage anxiety
• Head Space: Guided meditation and mindfulness techniques
• Moodfit: Mood journal, gratitude, mindfulness, CBT, breathwork, and more
• MoodMission: Learn coping skills for dealing with stress, low mood, and anxiety
• MoodKit: Over 200 activities designed to boost your mood and help change negative thinking using principles of CBT
• What’s Up?: Assists with coping with depression, anxiety, and stress. Also includes grounding/breathing techniques and tracking negative thoughts and habits. Offers a forum to connect with others.
• Stop, Breathe & Think: Provides short activities to guide people through meditation and grounding for mindfulness and self-regulation
• SuperBetter: Offers interactive games and self-care ideas to help people cope with various conditions and/or achieve personal growth
• Smiling Mind: Mindfulness programs for every age group and for the classroom, workplace, and sports
• Sanvello: Self-care, peer support, coaching, and therapy for stress relief, anxiety, and depression
• iBreathe: Deep breathing exercise to reduce stress and anxiety
• Happify: Overcome negative thoughts, stress, and life’s challenges using science-backed mental health games
• NotOK: Free digital panic button to get you immediate support via text, phone call, or GPS location when you are struggling

Interactive Materials

• Dartmouth Relaxation Downloads
  • Provides audio files for guided relaxation, meditation, mindfulness, and imagery exercises
• Greater Good in Action
  • Provides a list of practices for mindfulness, self-compassion, forgiveness, parenting, happiness, gratitude, stress, relief, and more
• Pixel Thoughts
  • Offers an interactive, 60-second meditation tool to communicate worries and release bothersome thoughts
• 99 Coping Skills
  • Provides an interactive list and print-out of 99 coping skills and strategies
• Breathing GIF
  • Leads viewers through a breathing exercise following an animated visual aid. Helpful for anxiety or panic attacks
• 54321 Grounding Technique
  • Leads texter through a five step grounding exercise to find calm

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