APPS FOR WELLBEING
MINDSHIFT
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Struggling with anxiety? Tired of missing out? There are things you can do to stop anxiety and fear from controlling your life. MindShift is an app designed to help teens and young adults cope with anxiety. It can help you change how you think about anxiety. Rather than trying to avoid anxiety, you can make an important shift and face it.
MindShift will help you learn how to relax, develop more helpful ways of thinking, and identify active steps that will help you take charge of your anxiety. This app includes strategies to deal with everyday anxiety, as well as specific tools to tackle:
• Test Anxiety
• Perfectionism
• Social Anxiety
• Performance Anxiety
• Worry
• Panic
• Conflict
Think of MindShift as your portable coach helping you face challenging situations and take charge of your life.
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ALWAYS THERE
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The Always There app provides a password protected space for you to log your feelings, flip through a ton of youth-submitted tips, inspirational quotes, and jokes aimed at helping you cope with stress.
You can access tipsheets offline on a variety of emotional health topics and more. Finally, the app can also connect you directly with a Kids Help Phone counsellor over the phone, or through Live Chat.
New to the app is Resources Around Me!
This tool allows you to search for resources in your community, like Counselling and Mental Health, Sexual Health, Housing Help, and more. There are over 11,000 services listed here and over time we will add even more! Your mobile device will require an internet connection in order to search for/access resources.
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thinkFull
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The thinkFull app helps you manage your stress to enrich your life. It is powered by a rich library of life tips to help you relieve stress, solve problems and live well.
Install thinkFull to:
- BUILD SELF-AWARENESS - Record stress levels and with life events to start learning when you're most stressed and why.
- BUILD LIFE BALANCE - Achieve better life balance with personalized suggestions from a library of 300 evidence-based life tips. These tips are fine-tuned based on your app usage and results.
- BUILD RESILIENCY - Recognize long-term patterns in your stress through trends and history so you can identify and start to re-engineer your life overall to be more harmonious.
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Booster Buddy
BoosterBuddy is a free app designed to help teens and young adults improve their mental health.
Manage your personal wellness journey and earn achievements as your sidekick guides you through a series of daily quests designed to establish and sustain positive habits.
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Check-in with how you are feeling each day
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Use coping skills
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Keep track of appointments and medications
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Get started on tasks
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Follow self-care routines
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Increase real-life socialization
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Calm Harm
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Calm Harm is an award-winning app developed for teenage mental health charity stem4 by Dr Nihara Krause, Consultant Clinical Psychologist, using the basic principles of an evidence-based therapy called Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT).
Calm Harm provides tasks to help you resist or manage the urge to self-harm. You can make it private by setting a password, and personalize the app if you so wish. You will be able to track your progress and notice change.
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Websites
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BC 2-1-1: Just like dialing 411 (or 911), you can now dial 211 and get connected with appropriate community services.
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Calm: Sleep, Meditation and Relaxation
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Crime Stoppers: To report any crime or to provide anonymous tips
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Cybertip: National tip line for reporting online sexual exploitation
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Youth Against Violence: To prevent or report violence
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Mind Your Mind: An award-winning, non-profit mental health program that engages youth, emerging adults and the professionals who serve them to co-develop reliable and relevant resources.These resources are designed to reduce the stigma associated with mental illness and increase access and use of community support, both professional and peer-based. Through the use of active engagement, best practice and technology, mindyourmind inspires youth to reach out, get help and give help.
