May is Mental Health Month:
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Click on link above to see the collection of books on mental health.
MY3
Designed to help those stay safe while having thoughts of suicide, MY3 is free and lets you customize your own personal safety plan by noting your warning signs, listing coping strategies, and connecting you to helpful resources to reach out to when you need them most. At your fingertips is a button that puts you in direct contact (24 hours a day, 7 days a week) with a trained counselor from the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline as well as a 911 alert. Additionally, you can choose three people to contact in the event you’re having thoughts of suicide. (Free; iOS and Android)
What’s Up
What’s up is an amazing free app that uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Acceptance Commitment Therapy (ACT) methods to help you cope with Depression, Anxiety, Stress, and more. Use the positive and negative habit tracker to maintain your good habits, and break those that are counterproductive. We particularly love the “Get Grounded” page, which contains over 100 different questions to pinpoint what you’re feeling, and the “Thinking Patterns” page, which teaches you how to stop negative internal monologues. Try it out for yourself. (Free; iOS and Android)
notOK
notOK is a free app developed by a struggling teenager (and her teen brother) for teenagers. The app features a large, red button that can be activated to let close friends, family and their support network know help is needed. Users can add up to five trusted contacts as part of their support group so when they hit the digital panic button, a message along with their current GPS location is sent to their contacts. The message reads: “Hey, I’m not OK! Please call, text, or come find me.” (Free; iOS and Android)
General Mental Health Apps
With the state of the world set to crazy mode right now, who isn’t having feelings? Whatever your emotion—stress, anger, angst, depression—a little extra help dealing is something we could all use, amiright? These apps are like a little pocket therapy (not to be replaced by actual therapy) that provide approachable, easy-to-use (and sometimes fun) ways to manage every mood, help change unhealthy thought patterns, and give you effective strategies to stay grounded when life feels out of control.
Click here for Review of Free Mental Health Apps
CALMING ROOM: ENTER AND BE CALM
Walden’s Pond: Free PS4, IOS...
In ‘Walden’ Video Game, the Challenge Is Stillness By Robin Pogrebin Feb. 24, 2017
It’s certainly a long way from Grand Theft Auto. Henry David Thoreau’s classic “Walden” is the inspiration for what Smithsonian Magazine is calling “the world’s most improbable video game”: Walden, a Game.
Instead of offering the thrills of stealing, violence and copious cursing, the new video game, based on Thoreau’s 19th-century retreat in Massachusetts, will urge players to collect arrowheads, cast their fishing poles into a tranquil pond, buy penny candies and perhaps even jot notes in a journal — all while listening to music, nature sounds and excerpts from the author’s meditations. Click here to read full article. NYTimes review:
All books here can be found in Sora app: NYCDOE students and staff can access Sora for free.
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