Recommended Apps from LB

---

Use this app along with your local library card to check out audiobooks and digital books for free from your local library. See my reading list below!

Use this app to create and share your safety plan. It also includes quick links to find the closest hospital in case of an emergency. 

Safety Plan is a free mobile safety planning app developed by the New York State Office of Mental Health, along with the New York State Psychiatric Institute, the Research Foundation for Mental Hygiene and the New York State Suicide Prevention Initiative. Safety Plan helps individuals identify suicide warning signs, create coping strategies, identify positive contacts and social settings to distract from the crisis, identify family members and friends available to help, find professional help and resources, and make their environment safe from lethal means that may be used in a suicide attempt.” 

This app can do a variety of things, but I use it to track self injurious behavior for clients. You can also track symptoms of other mental health disorders and generate reports and charts. 

This app can help connect you with support when urges to self-harm are happening. A person can utilize self-track activities (gives you ideas of activities to do when you feel self harm urges and helps you track them), meditations, breathing exercises, or get connected to get professional help. 

This appears to be a Czech app but it is in English besides the name. This app provides helpful coping skills when young people are experiencing symptoms of depression, anxiety, suicide ideation, self harm, and eating disorder symptoms. It provides distractions, inspirational quotes, games, and the ability to journal. 

This app helps with learning about emotions– which is awesome for any age. You can track how you feel and it helps you expand on your emotions vocabulary. The more we can describe, the more we can feel, the more we can process. I am partial to this app because the creators are fellow Minnesotans! And they are teens! So cool.