What's Up? Android

Resources to fight depression, anxiety and other mental illnesses

Living with a mental illness is not easy, especially because we do not always have the resources to go to a professional. This app helps us deal with negative thoughts, anxiety, anger and depression with various techniques.

Instant help for anxiety and depression

What's Up? is a health and wellness app that helps us overcome crises, anxiety attacks and other mental illnesses. To do so, it offers practical tools to control depression and negative thoughts.

The system is based on cognitive behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy, and offers various techniques depending on the problem we are experiencing. It has four main sections:

• Immediate help.
• Coping strategies.
• Information.
• Personal.

Through its tools, this application teaches us to detect common thinking errors and to avoid them by applying healthier alternatives. In addition, it also includes breathing and relaxation techniques, mechanisms for detecting good and bad habits, a catastrophe scale to put problems into perspective, open forums and even a personal diary to keep track of how we feel.

12 common negative thought patterns and simple methods to overcome them.

In general, this is an excellent psychology platform that can help us to face the vicissitudes of life with a better predisposition. Of course, downloading the APK file is an aid, but in no case is it a substitute for professional attention.

Requirements and additional information:

• Minimum operating system requirements: Android 4.0.3.
• Offers in-app purchases.