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Mental Health Resources

7 Ways to Reduce the Stigma of Mental Illness
The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) offers some suggestions about what we can do as individuals to help
reduce the stigma of mental illness.
Body Image Information Sheet
Body image is how you think and feel about your appearance, and how you feel in your own skin. A person can have a healthy or unhealthy body image, regardless of how they look.
Grief Fact Sheet
Grounding Techniques
After a trauma, it’s normal to experience flashbacks, anxiety, and other uncomfortable
symptoms. Grounding techniques help control these symptoms by turning attention away from thoughts, memories, or worries, and refocusing on the present moment.
Leaves on a Stream: Mindfulness Exercise
During the leaves on a stream exercise, you will visualize yourself resting near a stream. Whenever thoughts enter your mind, you will imagine placing them atop a leaf, and watching as they float away.
Study Tips for ADHD
What is Perfectionism?
Perfectionism is the belief that everything must be perfect all the time. A perfectionist sets impossible goals, and feels crushed when they are not achieved. Alternatively, someone who strives to do their best sets challenging but achievable goals.

Crisis Resources for Traumatic Events

Traumatic events are often frightening and upsetting, causing a range of intense physical, emotional and psychological symptoms. People commonly feel shock and disbelief right after the traumatic event, and may have a hard time accepting the reality of what happened. Magellan Healthcare has curated crisis coping and support tip sheets that can be used to help relieve traumatic stress reactions and begin healing. Find tips available in English and Spanish on:

How to cope after a traumatic event
Living with threats of violence
Helping children cope after a traumatic event
Supporting employees during traumatic events

Creighton University provides the Employee Assistance Program via Magellan Healthcare. Students can access support through Student Counseling Services.

Mental Health Apps

The following applications are available on a freemium basis for most major smart devices. We'd like to thank the Mayo Clinic School of Medicine for this curated list!

General Mental Health:

Liberate
The app is designed to support Black folks on their path to healing by naming and offering resources for common cultural experiences, like internalized racism and micro-aggressions.
Lifesum
Helps you reach your health and weight goals through better eating.
Moodpath
Keep a mental health journal and answer questions to receive regular mental health reports.
Operation Reach Out (iOS)
Aimed at preventing suicide among military personnel and veterans.
SuperBetter
Builds resilience – the ability to stay strong, motivated and optimistic.
What's Up
Provides helpful tools for managing depression based on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT).
Woebot
Meet Woebot, your personal mental health ally that helps you get back to feeling like yourself. Grounded in clinical research and powered by AI, Woebot is easy to talk to and fits right into your life, whenever you want to chat. There’s no such thing as appointments or waiting rooms here.
Worry Knot
Teaches you to manage your worry with lessons, distractions and a proven worry management technique.

Stress

Calm
Provides relaxation and meditation to help improve your sleep and reduce stress with music and melodies
Happify
Provides tools for measuring your overall mental health and well-being by reframing negative thoughts and tracking habits.
Headspace
Provides to assist with sleep & waking up, stress & anxiety, and movement & healthy living.
Smiling Mind
A daily mindfulness and meditation guide at your fingertips, including free programs for children and adults.

Overwhelmingness:

Coach.Me
This habit-tracking app will allow you to build and maintain good habits.
Focus Booster
Tool to help you track your time, stop procrastinating, and focus consistently.
My Study Life
Provides one space to organize your classes, tasks, exams, and assignments with the ability to set reminders.
Youper
Take control of your emotional health through conversations, meditations, and tracking your mood.

Insomnia/Sleep Issues

CBT-I Coach
Sleep log, Tools to create sleep habits and quiet the mind, educational tools, and reminders to help establish good sleep hygiene
Insomnia Coach
CBT insomnia tool with sleep coaching and tools to assist in sleep improvement
Relax and Sleep Well
Hypnosis and mediation recordings that help you alleviate stress & anxiety and sleep well at night.

Anxiety

Mind Shift
Interact with tools to help you take action for a positive change.
SAM
This tool helps you understand and manage your anxiety.
Sanvello
Provides digital self-care to manage stress, anxiety, and depression.

Panic

Breathe2Relax
Teaches a skill called “diaphragmatic breathing” to help users feel more relaxed.
The Mindfulness App
Meditation and mindfulness experience that helps you find peace with meditations and videos.
MoodTools
Provides users with a thought diary, depression test, and the option to develop a safety plan.