#mental health resources

thatocdfeel:

(With descriptions from the Play Store)

• STOPP *
  Use this app  if you want to start to stop the vicious cycles of depression and anxiety, and other negative and repetitive behaviours. 
  
• eQuoo
  A choose-your-own-adventure game that increases your emotional fitness and teaches you new psychological skills, helping you level up in real life.
• Calm Harm
  Calm Harm provides tasks to help you resist or manage the urge to self-harm. Get started by setting your password so that it’s completely private.
  You can personalise it if you wish, by choosing the background colour theme and deciding on whether you would like some company using a variety of friendly characters.
  
• Alarmy - the world’s most annoying alarm *
  With Alarmy you can wake up to five different missions. Different snooze options help you wake up slowly and gradually. No more oversleep, wake up easily, and be refreshed with various alarm ringtones and stylish clocks. Made by heavy sleepers for heavy sleepers.
  
• Habitica *
  Treat your life like a game to stay motivated and organized! Habitica makes it simple to have fun while accomplishing goals. An RPG style app that helps you get into good habits, break bad ones and accomplish tasks to gain XP.
  
• Stay Focused - App Block & Website Block
  A Self Control, Productivity and App Usage tracker app.
• Smiling Mind
  Smiling Mind is a unique web and app-based program developed by psychologists and educators to help bring balance to people’s lives.
  

Apps with * by the name have been tried by me, others I have found recommended by various sources. These should all come free, but you can check specific details in the app store of your choice. Please note the links are for Google Play users, but I believe these are all available also on the App store!

If you can recommend any app you found particularly helpful for yourself, please feel free to do so in a reblog. :)

I downloaded Habitica… let’s see if it works

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radiolightning:

Here is the fudgiest brownie in a mug recipe I’ve found

Here are some fun sites

Here is a master post of Adventure Time episodes and comics

Here is a master post of movies including Disney and Studio Ghibli

Here is a master post of other master posts to TV shows and movies

*tucks you in with fuzzy blanket* *pats your head*

You’ll be okay, friend <3

i will reblog this everytime it shows up because any of my followers could have a bad night right now

All these links, besides the first, are broken. So here’s some more.

Here’s an emergency compliment

Here you can play 2048

Here’s a playlist of Bob ross

Here’s a website to watch movie’s and shows for free

Here’s a website to watch documentaries for free

Hereyou can to nothing for two minutes

Here you can break something. It’s good for anger

Here’s a button to press to make everything okay

Here’s a site to cut something up (TRIGGER WARNING)

Here’s a site that makes you a website depending on a song you choose

Here’s a gay comic. It’s adorable

Hereyou can spend Bill Gate’s money

Hereyou can draw your own island

Here you can learn about patterns website’s use

Here you can get your life stats

Hereyou can listen to the Tucker Zone (Headphones needed)

Here you can see how fast you’re moving

Here you can see the progress of time

Here you can see the future of the universe 

Want some more? 

Here’s the butterfly project

Here’s a snickerdoodle mug cake

Here’s a link to some free audiobooks

Here’s something to read when you feel like a burden

Here’s a secret

Here’s my playlist of some sea shanties 

Here’s another secret

Here’s a link to some cool websites 

Here’sa blog that gives you recipes for when you’re low on spoons

Here’s some Brony Headcanon’s

Some more? I’ve got plenty

Here’s100,000 stars

Here you can control the weather (TW FLASHING IMAGES)

Here you can weave silk

Hereyou can make a castle of your own

Here you can make a kaleidoscope drawing

Hereyou can explore recursion

Here you can play a jelly block game

I’m back with some more! 

Here you can draw with pasta

Here you can draw logo’s from memory

Here you can play this is sand, here you draw cool sand designs

Here you can play The Organ Trail

Here’s a customizable white noise website

Here you can simulate gravity

Hereyou can create your own guardian of the galaxy

Here you can make your own galaxy

Here’s a website you can get some support at.

to find later

It’s more than understandable if you’re hitting a bump right now, this has been going on a while but it’s not getting any easier. In fact it might feel like it’s getting harder. I get it. Even without all the anxiety surrounding covid, just having your life change so much can be overwhelming even as time continues to pass- it certainly was for me when I first got sick and I still have days when it all feels to much. But you’re going to be ok. 

Take a deep breath, drink some water, know you’re not alone, and keep taking care of yourself. You’ve got this! 

Here are some resources to help you:

Tenpercent coronavirus sanity guide

Calm together isolation resources 

UCLA mindfulness app

UCLA and Headspace mindful meditations

Does everyone know a petulant child who hates being told what to do, but if they think it’s their idea, they’re all for it? That’s my inner child. For a long time, I tried forceful techniques to make my anxiety go away, thinking it would work if I was bossy enough. I’ve since learned that it’s far more effective to try gentle reframes of mind, like this one.

Today’s#SelfCareSunday is about anxiety and one common way to manage it. (I say common because this strategy comes up in plenty of books about anxiety!) When I first started doing worry time a few years ago, I thought I could cheat the system—I would schedule my anxious thoughts for a specific time and then conveniently forget to actually do worry time that day, the idea being I could procrastinate my anxiety away. Friends, this did not work! My brain needed to trust that I would actually make time to dump all my worries out. I started keeping a list of things to come back to during worry time, and it really helped my brain file anxious thoughts away for later; once they were written down, my brain stopped bugging me all day in case I forgot.

I think at its most basic, self-compassion is seeing what your needs are and then making sure they get filled. A reminder I need very often!

It’s really easy to get annoyed at the infinite imagination machine that is my brain for forcing me to be late for a flight, or forget all my lines in a school play, or get lost in a foreign country, or any other stressful thing when I’d rather be peacefully asleep.

I feel a bit better when I remind myself that my brain is just trying to protect me. Then, instead of starting the morning by ruminating on yet another pointless dream, I can have more peace of mind as I get on with the day.

Do you have any go-to techniques for dealing with (or even preventing!) stress dreams?

For#SelfCareSunday, here are some things that have been working really well for me lately. I live by the philosophy that a little every day is better than a lot in fits and bursts, at least when it comes to mental health!