Highly Reccommend! – What's Up? A Mental Health App Review

I’ve only just started using this app, but I am already in love with this app all around! I have personally have had experiences with anxiety and depression episodes and this app has given me an outlet. This is an informative, simple to use app that can also give quick help especially with anxiety! It walks you through a series of actions and activities to bring you back and grounded to reality. It gives you all the right tools you’ll need to be aware of your emotions and surroundings. This app also gives soooo many great coping strategies that help you with the thoughts and feelings you are going through, I have already used a few and it’s helped tremendously!! Some of the coping strategies that are used in this app is called: Thinking patterns, metaphors, manage worries, and positive steps. Thinking patterns: it helps identify the unhealthy thinking patterns, challenge and distance yourself from them, and see the situation in a different way. Metaphors: this uses a story or illustration to see alternative ways of looking at something and helping you make decision in a more effective way in life. Manage worries: this is where it gives 10 different approaches to try like “setting aside worry time” to “replaying the worry till your tired” as well as a few other examples. Positive steps: this gives you multiple options to take a step in the right direction of feeling better like “helping others” to “learning a new skill/hobby” to “simply relax”. This relates to Abnormal Psych and anxiety by how it affects the 3 components: cognitive, physical, and behavioral. This app helps these components on multiple levels for a person and it gives the person a way to quickly help through a panic attack. This app even has a way where you can document all your thoughts, feelings, behaviors, negative habits; this gives a way for a person to to keep a tab on their self and how much they may have changed physically, mentally, or emotionally.
Review by SamGCMU on What's Up? A Mental Health App.