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13 apps for bettering your mental health

By Lyndsey Gilpin May 19, 2015, 9:44 AM PDT

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13 apps for bettering your mental health

MY3

MY3

MY3 helps you stay connected when you are having thoughts of suicide. You define your network and a plan to stay safe by listing your triggers, coping strategies, and the three people you want on call to keep you safe. There’s also a direct button to the National Suicide Prevention Hotline. Available for free for iOS and Android.

13 apps for bettering your mental health

NAMI AIR

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NAMI AIR

The National Alliance for Mental Illness (NAMI) has an app called AIR that is a support network for those who have a mental illness and their loved ones. Use it to find support online, learn more about mental health, or to find support groups in your community. Available for free for iOS and Android.

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13 apps for bettering your mental health

PTSD Coach

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PTSD Coach

The PTSD Coach is designed for veterans and military service members who have or had post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). It provides information, a self-assessment, access to professionals, and tools to help manage stress in daily life. Available on iOS and Android for free.

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13 apps for bettering your mental health

Mindfulness Coach

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Mindfulness Coach

Mindfulness Coach was also designed by the VA, and is aimed at people with PTSD as well as anyone wishing to practice more mindfulness and emotional balance in their daily lives. Free for iOS.

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13 apps for bettering your mental health

Talkspace

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Talkspace

Therapy is expensive and most often not covered by insurance. Talkspace is a web and mobile platform that connects people with 200 licensed therapists for individual and couples therapy. It’s $25 per week for unlimited message therapy — you can simply text. Or, pay $29 for a 30 minute video call. You can also do it anonymously. Available to download on iOS and Android for free.

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13 apps for bettering your mental health

Worry Watch

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Worry Watch

Worry Watch is for anxiety management. It’s a journal app to log and analyze your anxiety and help you better understand what gives you the most anxiety. It helps you track “what might happen” vs. “what actually happened,” and has been lauded as a really logical approach to anxiety treatment. Available for $1.99 on iOS.

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Crisis Text Line

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Crisis Text Line

Crisis Text Line was launched by DoSomething.org. It isn’t an app, exactly, but a web platform and SMS system for volunteers to help people who are in crisis. Someone texts anywhere, anytime, about any type of crisis, and a live, trained specialist responds immediately. Users stay safe and secure, and get information about counseling and other referrals through text.

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13 apps for bettering your mental health

Lantern

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Lantern

Lantern offers individual mental health coaching. It offers muscle relaxation and deep breathing exercises to help people cope with things like anxiety, stress, depression, and body issues. The startup received funding from the National Institutes of Health.

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MindShift

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MindShift

MindShift is an app for helping teens and young adults cope with anxiety. It offers ways to relax, develop more helpful ways of thinking, and identify steps to take to gain control of anxiety. Available for free on iOS and Android.

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How Are You

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How Are You

How Are You is an app that supplements therapy. It’s a unique form of mood tracking, asking you to assess your moods through tests, track your changes and compare them to others, and it also offers ways to boost your mood. It’s $12.99 and available on iOS and Android.

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13 apps for bettering your mental health

A Friend Asks

A Friend Asks

The Jason Foundation, an organization for preventing suicide, developed A Friend Asks, which is a resource and tool for teens who are experiencing or have friends expressing warning signs of depression and suicide. Available for free for iOS and Android.

13 apps for bettering your mental health

Optimism

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Optimism

This app is targeted to people with depression and bipolar disorder, allowing them to log and analyze the triggers that affect them most. Find starting points to start tackling the issues, and develop a wellness plan to lead a more optimistic, healthy life. Available for free for iOS and Android.

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SAM

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SAM

The Self-help Anxiety Management (SAM) app is a tool to help understand and manage anxiety symptoms, and it also offers a closed social network of users. It was developed by a team of psychologists and computer scientists in the UK. Available for free for iOS and Android.

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