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Could the notOK app help you in a mental health crisis?

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The free notOK app, available for both android and iOS, lets the user ask trusted contacts for help when they are in a crisis. With the push of a button, they can notify up to 5 contacts. No need for the user to message them individually or worry about how to ask. The app does it for them. The app aims to help those suffering from mental illnesses such as anxiety or depression. These conditions can make it hard to reach out, and this app helps solve that problem to get sufferers the peer support they need.
The app was developed by two high school students, a sister and brother. In her teens, Hannah Lucas was diagnosed with a condition called POTS which would make her faint unexpectedly. She developed a fear of being alone, worried about fainting when there was no one there to make sure she was ok. This lead to anxiety and depression. During one of Hannah’s lowest points, she was alone in her room wishing for an easy way to ask for help and let someone know she wasn’t ok. After she improved, she was able to take entrepreneur and coding classes to bring her idea to life. Her brother assisted with the technical aspects, glad to finally be able to help his older sister.

The app is simple to use. The user just downloads it and signs up. Then they designate up to five trusted contacts. These contacts, who could be friends, family members, or counselors, receive a text allowing them to either accept or decline the responsibility. If the user needs to ask for help, he or she just pushes the red notOK button and their trusted contacts are notified. The app notifies the user that help is on the way. Then the trusted contact can either text, call, or arrive in person using the GPS location the app supplies. Once the crisis is over, the user can press the green OK button to let all trusted contacts know they are alright.

Panic buttons for the elderly and people with severe medical conditions are commonplace, but a panic button for mental health crises is a new idea. As understanding of mental illness grows, we may begin seeing similar apps crop up. What do you think? Can you see yourself or someone you know benefitting from the notOK app?

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The Organization That Is Here To Help You

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It is not easy to live in today’s world, and that you are always happy and that everything is perfect. Every day we are confronted with stress that affects mental health. This organization was created to help you, with someone to share your problems that we will solve together. The problem of today’s mentality of the people is that everyone thinks they can solve all the problems themselves and that they need no help. Consequently, they are mentally tired, and the depression stage occurs, where gradually, if not overlooked, suicidal thinking can occur.

Children adolescents are the most vulnerable group in this regard. A teenager who suffers peer violence can very easily without the help of professional faces or friends come to the stage leading to suicidal thoughts. That’s why we are maximally engaged in awakening the parents’ conscience to talk to the child, to know what is troubling him. If they suspect that the child has problems and they will not tell them personally, they can come to us to seek help and talk to the child. They work with the best psychologists who know exactly how to settle for the child and help him to the maximum.

Children adolescentsWar, one of the greatest evils the man has invented. Soldiers often go through huge traumas about which they almost do not talk and push it to themselves. It’s not good at all, because sooner or later it has to be expressed. Some people know with these traumas that they live while others have a difficult time. Such psychological pressure cannot be lifted, and life is completed. Our help to former or current soldiers is always at your service. They have a mandatory conversation with a psychologist, but many of us volunteer to solve this psychological pressure.

Social cases, poor peopleSocial cases, poor people. For them, many people do not care, and a large number of those who after all that they have survived raise their hand to themselves because they have no one to talk to, who can give them support. No one cares about them because they have no one else, everyone has left them. We do not want to let that happen, and we try to get it back to our feet.

In addition to everything we do for these people, let’s be aware of others that they also pay little attention to others because one day they can be found in the same situation and then someone who helped me would help them. We must always be here for each other. We do our best to help you, and we will always help you.

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Mental Health and Depression Affecting The Idea Of Suicide

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Numerous factors affect mental health. We can roughly divide them into two groups of factors: external factors would be the environment, that is, the environment, living conditions, traumatic experiences such as loss and abuse, as well as substance abuse, while internal factors would include biological and genetic prepositions, and so on. The negative personality traits, or the vulnerability of the person. Each of these factors leads to the development of a mental disorder. In some cases, an isolated factor, such as loss or abuse, can be a trigger for a mental disorder, but most disorders are the result of the accumulation of experiences that have consistently endangered the psychological well-being of a person. In the time in which we live, we are constantly more or less exposed to factors that affect our mental health. As mental health is not just the absence of psychological disorders, the prevention of mental health in addition to regular visits to a psychologist also implies the strengthening of individual personality capacities, and the elimination of negative factors from the environment, it implies interdisciplinary work and cooperation, and the transfer of mental health care from major institutions to general hospitals, as well as the alarming and participation of the wider community.

Depression

Stress can lead to someone feeling sad and miserable. What’s different with depression compared to the normal state is that these feelings can last not only for days but also for weeks or months.

Main symptoms of depression:

1. Depressed mood – Patients usually talk about feelings of sorrow and emptiness. High irritability occurs in children and adolescents.

2. Loss of interest and satisfaction – Patients have a loss of interest in all or almost all daily activities, but also they are talking about the loss of a sense of satisfaction.

3. Changes in body weight – There may be a loss or an increase in body weight, most often around 5% in a month. In children and adolescents, the weight of the strands is in the weight that deviates from the expected one.

4. Sleep disorder – Insomnia or prolonged sleep occurs, which is also a symptom of depression.

5. Feelings of lesser value and guiltPsychomotor agitation or retardation – Remarkable psychomotor slowing or anxiety.

6. Feeling tired – Patients complain that they are constantly tired and have lost energy.

7. Feelings of lesser value and guilt – The patient feels responsible for things that are not under his control.

8. Decreased concentration – The depressed person has difficulty concentrating, thinking and evaluating.

9. Thinking about death – The ninth symptom of depression is often thought of death, exceptional suicide with or without plans to do it.