Take My Hand App
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The "Take My Hand" app is designed to provide counseling services and stress/anxiety relief tools to users. It aims to promote self-awareness and reduce depression and anxiety worldwide. The app would feature connections to hotlines, downloadable meditation podcasts, location services to find counseling offices nearby, and mini-games for stress relief. It seeks to help the many people suffering from depression and anxiety who are not receiving treatment by giving them easy access to supportive resources in one place.
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- 1. TAKE MY HAND A Forever Helpful App
- 2. What is the Take My Hand App? The Take My Hand App is the latest resource in counseling services and stress/anxiety relievers for people of all ages who just need a helping hand. Focus: To provide assistance to people who are going through a rough time or need stress relief. Ultimate Goal: Promote self-awareness and to reduce the growing number of people with depression and anxiety aroung the world.
- 3. Behavior Background Facts Within the last 20 years, depression has been diagnosed in 40% of patients who seek psychiatric aid and is the highest out of any other diagnosis. Depression has become the leading cause of disability among people in midlife and for women around the world. Anxiety follows close behind Depression, even though it is a normal human emotion, it can cause disorders in which fear and worry are constantly about and can be crippling. Thoughts Unable to concentrate Stopped doing enjoyable things Not getting work done Loss of appetite Withdrawal from family and friends Im a FAILURE Its MY fault NOTHING good happens to me Im WORTHLESS Life is NOT worth living Feelings Physical Overwhelmed Guilty Frustrated Unhappy Miserable Sad Irritable Tired all the time Sick Headaches and muscle pains Churning gut Sleep disturbance/deprivation Poor appetite/weight loss
- 4. Personal 1 out of 4 college students and 1 out of 10 adults are reported to be suffering from depression. However, 80% percent of them do not receive help for it. I am one of the 20% of people who are able to receive help, but when I heard about this statistic, I felt like something should be done to change those numbers. This is a self portrait I made to represent my depression and is the main inspiration for this app design.
- 5. What Will It Look Like?
- 6. Features Connections to 24 hour hotlines, such as: Take My Hand The Take My Hand App is designed to give help to people who suffer from depression and can provided stress relievers. http://www.hopeline.com/ http://crisiscallcenter.org/crisisservices.html http://www.nimh.nih.gov/site-info/contactnimh.shtml Downloadable podcasts for meditation practices and stress relievers. Location services to nearby counseling offices. Mini games to provide stress relief from promotional sites: http://stressreliefpig.com/games http://www.lumosity.com
- 7. How to use it Heart Button The Heart Button is the home button, click it on any other tab and you will be brought back to the main update screen. Tabs Games: The games tab is where all stress and anxiety relief games will be. In-app games will be varied from Sudoku to Popping Bubble Wrap. Ads for out of app games will also be available too. Listen: This is where all podcasts and ambient songs will be stored. Every item in this tab is free and can easily be downloaded. Call: All counseling and service numbers are stored in a contact book format and are easily accessible at anytime on the app. Maps: This will bring up a location service that pin points your location and locates local services from spas to counseling.
- 8. Why does it matter? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJD3nhmIZ kE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lu5TcLQLrZ U There are ways of fighting depression, but it takes one step at a time. This app is designed to be another step in the process. Because everyone just needs a helping hand once in a while.