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CALM Apps To Help You And Your Mental Health
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Mental Health Support Apps - a good opening line to use on this years Time To Talk Day The CWU and its Mental Health First Aiders are busy everyday talking with workplace colleagues and friends about their mental health, including and in many cases, sources of help and support as well as professional help availability. They can often 'signpost' a person to a service that is professionally run, e.g. the Samaritins or local 'talking therapies'.
But more and more these days, the Government is pushing the use of technology (often called Life Sciences), to help individuals to manage their mental health. But with some 2000 self-help apps regarding mental health out there, many of which are about making money and loaded with adverts; people need to be careful which they use.
Hence the Government issueing new advice to those using technology in their health management, which is backed by the UK's Welcome Trust. Their guidance can be downloaded from the unionsafety e-library
Merseyside originating, Campaign Against Living Miserably, is a charity that campiagns on Suicide Prevention.
To quote from their website:
"125 people a week die by suicide, CALM exists to change that. CALM’s been shouting about suicide prevention since 1997, when our life-saving helpline launched. Originally set up as an NHS pilot, the helpline started out in Merseyside. CALM became a national charity in 2005, meaning we could support people who needed us across the country."
" CALMzone is here to support your mental well-being every day. With 50+ expert-designed activities, guided breathing and meditation for anxiety relief, and mood-tracking tools like journaling and reflection, you can better understand and care for your mental health."
He added:
"Most importantly, and because mental health support should be accessible to everyone, CALMzone is completely and always will be free—no paywalls, no credit cards, no catch. Just trusted, expert-created support for life’s hard days; providing you with mental health support."
Commenting upon the app, Mental Health First Aider Adele Green said how great she found the app to be:
"This app is fantastic and so easy to use."
Meanwhile, web editor Chris Ingram who is using the app said: "Mental Health First Aiders have certainly helped me, by introducing me to this excellent app. I am very sceptical and careful when downloading apps, especially those claiming to be an immediate solution to immprove one's life. Usually charging of course.
However I found this app to be everything it is cracked up to be, and FREE! Given my own personal mental health issues, I find this app a great help, and will continue to use it."
Given that 5th February is Time to Talk Day 2026 with the theme of ‘Brave the big talk’, this app encourages just that and is perfectly complementary to the theme of talking to your workmates and colleagues, and will in itself be an opener perhaps for those who are shy, but have something to talk about on 5th February.
Right now is a tough time for CWU and UTAW members in BT, EE, Royal Mail, and all companies in which the Union has membership.
Source: Jamie McGovern / Calmzone.net
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Speaking to Unionsafety, CWU's Jamie McGovern said:
Once installed on your mobile phone, Apple or Android, you will find that the interface is very intuitive and therefore easy to use. It gives quick results in terms of suggested categories of help and based upon the criteria of mental health support you choose.