Helpful Apps for Self-Care
Anxiety & Stress
Calm App
The Calm app features guided meditations, strategies to overcome anxiety, and other strategies for improved sleep and relaxation.
Cost: Free to download. Annual subscription to unlock all features.
Headspace
Headspace provides guided meditation and mindfulness practice techniques. The app also provides "SOS" sessions to cope with panic and anxiety.
Cost: Free to download. Annual subscription to unlock all features.
Available through 2020, LA County residents can unlock all features at www.headspace.com/lacounty. Student Plans available.
Lyftly
Lyftly is an all-in-one app for mental wellness that includes a social support community, mood tracker, journal section, and a list of emergency hotlines.
Cost: Free
SAM: Self-Help Anxiety Management
SAM is an easy to use app that helps you track your anxiety, recognize anxiety-inducing cues, and practice anxiety-reducing strategies.
Cost: Free
Bipolar Disorder
eMoods Bipolar Mood Tracker
eMoods helps you easily chart depressed or elevated mood, sleep patterns, medications, and other symptoms related to mood disorders.
Cost: Free to download. In-app purchases.
UP!- The Smart Mood Diary for Bipolar Disorder
UP! helps you keep track of your mood and behavior patterns. Recognize what triggers your mood patterns and make changes to your daily routine.
Cost: Free to download. In-app purchases.
Depression
Happify
Happify helps you manage negative thoughts to improve your mood from a variety of evidence-based techniques and helps you track your progress over time.
Cost: Free to download. In-app purchases.
MoodTools
MoodTools offers tools to track your negative thoughts in reaction to difficult situations. Helpful videos and resources help you develop newer thinking patterns, which can improve your mood.
Cost: Free to download. In-app purchases.
Motivation and Goal Setting
Habitbull
HabitBull helps you keep track of your habits and routines so that you can better organize your life and accomplish your goals. It also includes motivational photos and discussion forums.
Cost: Free to download. In-app purchases.
Habitica
Habitica keeps you motivated by treating your life like a video game. "Level up" as you make progress toward your life goals!
Cost: Free to download. In-app purchases.
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
PTSD Coach
PTSD Coach provides information on PTSD, provides coping strategies to help manage symptoms, and provides crisis resources.
Cost: Free
PTSD Family Coach
PTSD Family Coach provides helpful information and support for family members of those living with PTSD. Resources include information on self-care, managing a relationship with someone who has PTSD, and finding treatment options.
Cost: Free
Self-Harm Prevention
Calm Harm
Calm Harm helps reduce the urge to self-harm by offering several strategies such as distraction, deep breathing, comforting activities. The app includes password protection for added privacy.
Cost: Free
UnCut App
UnCut gives alternatives to those who self-harm, access to support hotlines, and inspirational stories.
Cost: Free
Sleep Hygiene
CBT-I Coach
CBT-I Coach includes a sleep diary to track sleep patterns and provides information on how to improve your sleep routine.
Cost: Free
Relax Melodies: Sleep Sounds
Relax Melodies allows you to create your own mix of relaxation sounds to help you improve your quality of sleep. Sounds include white noise, nature sounds, and meditation music.
Cost: Free to download. In-app purchases.
Suicide Prevention
Jason Foundation A Friend Asks
Jason Foundation A Friend Asks provides information to help a friend possibly struggling with suicidal thoughts. Learn the warning signs, how to ask about suicidal thoughts, and how to help a friend in need.
My3
My3 helps you stay connected to the people you trust when you're experiencing a crisis. With My3, you can also develop a safety plan when experiencing suicidal thoughts and connect directly with suicide and crisis hotlines.
Cost: Free
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