Coping with COVID-19: Apps
for Adults
COVID Coach
The COVID Coach app was created for everyone, including Veterans and Service members, to support self-care and overall mental health during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Features include education about coping during the pandemic, tools for self-care and to improve emotional well-being, trackers to check your mood and measure your growth toward personal goals, and graphs to visualize progress over time.
Tags: FREE, ADULTS, YOUTH, TEENS, VETERANS, MENTAL HEALTH, COVID-19, PANDEMIC, MOOD, STRESS, ANXIETY, DEPRESSION, SELF-CARE, EDUCATION, RESOURCES, ANDROID, iOS, SPANISH
Calm
This is an excellent meditation app designed to help achieve better sleep, reduced anxiety and stress, and overall relaxation. The app uses guided meditations, sleep stories, breathing programs, stretching exercises, and relaxing music. It is great for users of all different experience levels with meditation, and the sessions are available in varying lengths from 3-25 minutes so you can select an activity that fits the needs of your schedule and routines
Tags: FREE, ADULTS, YOUTH, TEENS, MENTAL HEALTH, SLEEP, STRESS, ANXIETY, DEPRESSION, MINDFULNESS, BREATHING EXERCISES, PANDEMIC, COVID-19, iOS, ANDROID
Headspace
This app provides guided meditations and mindfulness techniques targeting stress management, better sleep, and improved focus and attention. The free version is great, and there are also options for expanded subscriptions. There is a COVID-19 “Weathering the storm” content pack that is free for everyone.
Tags: FREE, ADULTS, YOUTH, TEENS, MENTAL HEALTH, SLEEP, STRESS, ANXIETY, DEPRESSION, MINDFULNESS, BREATHING EXERCISES, PANDEMIC, COVID-19, iOS, ANDROID
MindShift
MindShift is a scientifically based anxiety tool that teaches you how to be mindful, develop more effective ways of thinking, and proactively take charge of your anxiety. CBT can help with disordered eating through self-monitoring, helping you understand the interactions between your thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. It can also help you develop strategies to combat negative behaviors. This app shows you how to address and manage social anxiety and perfectionism with CBT-based tools for lasting positive change.
Tags: FREE, ADULTS, YOUTH, TEENS, MENTAL HEALTH, SLEEP, STRESS, ANXIETY, DEPRESSION, MINDFULNESS, BREATHING EXERCISES, PANDEMIC, COVID-19, iOS, ANDROID
What’s Up?
What’s Up? is a useful app that offers different therapy methods to help you manage stress, anxiety, depression, and other conditions. Using this app, you can learn simple methods for overcoming negative thinking patterns, use the diary to track your thoughts, feelings, and habits, and try the app’s breathing exercises for staying calm and relaxed. All of these CBT-based techniques may be useful in supplementing eating disorder recovery treatments.
Tags: FREE, ADULTS, YOUTH, TEENS, MENTAL HEALTH, SLEEP, STRESS, ANXIETY, DEPRESSION, MINDFULNESS, BREATHING EXERCISES, THERAPY, GRIEF, LOSS, PANDEMIC, COVID-19, iOS, ANDROID
Smiling Mind
Smiling Mind is a mindfulness and meditation app, but it also acts as a self-care toolkit. When you first sign in, Smiling Mind asks for users to register with an age preference. For teens, this app gives focus on better understanding stress and how to care for yourself, not only with guided meditations and body scans, but with short and relatable videos that somehow manage to strike the perfect balance of positive and fun yet also cool, informative, and direct.
Tags: FREE, ADULTS, YOUTH, TEENS, MENTAL HEALTH, SLEEP, STRESS, ANXIETY, DEPRESSION, MINDFULNESS, BREATHING EXERCISES, MEDITATION, GRIEF, LOSS, PANDEMIC, COVID-19, iOS, ANDROID