#HealthBytes: 5 best apps which help you manage anxiety
Anxiety, a feeling of nervousness, uneasiness, or worry, is the human body's natural response to stress that can get in the way of a person's life. Whether you are someone coping with an anxiety disorder or just feel anxious at times, there many useful apps available nowadays which you can keep handy to manage stress and anxiety. Here are 5 best anxiety management apps.
Pacifica for Stress & Anxiety, a free mental wellness app
Pacifica is one of the top-rated apps that helps users to combat anxiety, stress, and depression. It offers psychologist-designed tools based on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, mindfulness meditation, relaxation, and mood/health tracking. It helps users calm down in moments of anxiety and also learn how to manage stress, anxiety, and depression at their own pace. The free app is available for Android, iOS, and web.
Detect and overcome anxiety and depression with Youper Assistant
Youper (Android, iOS) is an innovative app that offers an AI Assistant to help users master life's ups-and-downs and beat depression and anxiety through quick, insightful conversations. Based on conversations with users, Youper helps them get to know their mind, improve mood, overcome stress and symptoms of anxiety and depression. User's chats, over time, are built into a dynamic record of their emotional health.
Headspace app helps you manage moments of panic or anxiety
Headspace (Android, iOS) is another useful app that helps in regulating stress and anxiety for a healthier and happier life. It has exercises and specially-designed meditations for managing anxiety, stress relief, calm, happiness, and focus. It teaches users how to deal with anxiety attacks and relax in stressful time. It has meditation courses for Managing Anxiety, Letting Go of Stress, Restlessness, and Navigating Change.
Calm, a popular app recommended by mental health experts too
Calm is one of the most popular and leading apps for managing stress and anxiety in an effective manner. The app helps in lowering stress, calming anxiety, and having a restful sleep with the help of guided meditations, Calm Masterclasses, breathing programs, relaxing music, etc. Calm is available for Android and iOS. It offers free as well as paid content.
#5: Self-help Anxiety Management app
Self-help Anxiety Management developed by the University of the West of England is another good app. It offers various self-help methods for users to manage anxiety. It helps them in learning about anxiety and practicing self-help. The free app is available for Android and iOS.
