Applications
General Mental Health Apps
What’s Up – free, IOS and Android
This app uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Acceptance Commitment Therapy to help you cope with things like depression, anxiety, stress, and more.
Mood kit - $4.99, IOS
This app uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and provides over 200 different mood improvement activities to work on your mental health.
Happify – free, IOS and Android
This app offers science-based activities and games to help you overcome negative thoughts.
Apps to help you sleep
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Sleep Cycle – free, IOS and Android
This app tracks your sleep patterns and provides tips on how to optimize it.
Pzizz – free, IOS and Android
This app uses psychoacoustics to treat insomnia. It has more than 100 billion sleep music sequences to help you stay focused throughout the day and customizable narrations to help you sleep.
Apps for mindfulness/meditation
Headspace - $12.99 per month, IOS and Android
This app offers meditations on problems such as stress and anxiety to help you sleep and focus.
Calm - $12.99 per month, IOS and Android
This app provides people experiencing stress and anxiety with guided meditations, sleep stories, breathing programs, and relaxing music.
Apps for suicide prevention
NotOK – free, IOS and Android
This app features a large red button that can be pressed to let your support system know that you need help.
BackUp – free, IOS and Android
This app helps you deal with your suicidal thoughts. (in Dutch only)
Apps to deal with stress and anxiety
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Mind shift – free, IOS and Android
This app is designed for teens and young adults with anxiety. Rather than trying to avoid anxious feelings, this app stresses the importance of changing how you think about anxiety.
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Sanvello for Stress and Anxiety – free, IOS and Android
This app uses Cognitive Behavior Therapy to help you understand and manage your moods and thoughts.
Self-Help for Anxiety Management (SAM) – free, IOS and Android
This app lets you build your own 24-hour anxiety toolkit that allows you to track anxious thoughts and behavior over time. It also teaches you 25 self-help techniques, and you can use its ‘Social Cloud to connect with other users.
Apps to help you deal with depression
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MoodTools – free, IOS, Android
This app was made to support people with clinical depression by videos, analyzing your thoughts, and developing a suicide safety plan.
Apps to help you battle addiction
Quit That! – free, IOS
This apps helps you track and monitor your progress in battling any addiction or bad habit.
Twenty-Four Hours a Day – $5.99, IOS, Android
This app offers 336 meditations to help people in recovery from addiction.
Apps to help you with eating disorders
Recovery road – free, IOS and Android
This app lets you keep a record of the meals you eat and how they make you feel and complete questionnaires that will help you track your progress over time.
Rise up and recover – free, IOS and Android
This app allows you to track your meals and how you feel when you eat them, and lets you transcribe your progress into a PDF printout.
YouTube Videos
Books
Websites
https://www.beateatingdisorders.org.uk/. Beat Eating Disorders is a charity that offers information and support on battling eating disorders.
https://www.healthline.com/. Healthline provides information on health.
https://www.helpguide.org/about-us.htm. HelpGuide is a nonprofit mental health and wellness website.
https://www.mentalhealth.org.uk/about-us/who-we-are. Mental Health Foundation is a charity that offers information and support on mental health.
https://www.mindful.org/. Mindful focuses on mindfulness and meditation for a healthy mind and healthy life.
https://www.mind.org.uk/. Mind is a mental health charity that offers information and support on all sorts of mental health problems.
https://www.mindout.org.uk/. Mind Out is a mental health charity that offers mental health support and information for the LGBTQ+ community.
https://www.relate.org.uk/. Relate offers support and counselling for every type of relationship worldwide.
https://www.sleepfoundation.org/about-us. Sleep Foundation is an organisation that offers information and support on sleep and sleep disorders.
https://www.verywellmind.com/. Very Well Mind is an online resource that provides guidance to improve your mental health. You can also check out Very Well Family and Very Well Health.
More Information
All information on this topic is taken from the following sources. Please check them out if you are looking for more useful media resources.
For a list of media resources from Psynt: https://psynt.com/blog/media
For a list of the best mental health apps from Psychom: https://www.psycom.net/25-best-mental-health-apps
For a list of the best mental health youtube channels: https://empathysites.com/best-mental-health-therapist-youtube-channels/