6 Apps To Help You Kick Anxiety's Ass

There's a reason this app is one of Apple's best mental health features to date. It's designed to help you monitor and analyze almost every major part of your life that can contribute to anxiety; from your health and habits, to your mood and how often you get to rest.

It kicks into high gear as it offers resources such as relaxation methods and mindfulness practices that can speak to your specific situation. I love that this one comes with an on-the-spot stress reliever in the form of audio exercises during those moments you're experiencing a panic attack, or just have time to spare and want to improve your mental health.

Headspace

It's no secret that anxiety usually starts rearing its head with a small worry in our mind that eventually takes over our lives, even just for a moment. Headspace is an app that helps ease your mind with meditation and self-affirmations.

What I love about this one is that it's free for 10 days. Each day, you get 10 minutes of practices and exercises in meditation. If you love the app and actually see it making a positive impact on your anxiety habits, then you can subscribe for a monthly or yearly timeframe. The subscription offers even more meditation exercises to help you deal with issues ranging from anxiety to depression.

This app uses a five-step process that can show your worry you're not the one to play with.

Using these steps: record, reflect, reason, realize, and refute, it monitors the status of your mental state over a generous amount of time, so it can target habits and triggers that could be feeding your anxiety without your knowledge and permission. It lets you jot down what you believe is causing your stress, and then asks you to come back to the app and reflect on the moment you started worrying and how you reacted to it. It then develops a chart and analysis developed specifically for you to help you visually see how you respond to your triggers. And of course, it offers solutions.

What causes any issues of anxiety to flare up in your life? Whatever it is, and whether you know the answer or not, the Moods app helps you identify key things that trigger anxiety, because it's different for all of us. It gives you the option to write in your emotions and detail what happened before you started feeling an overwhelming amount of stress and frustration.

Once you realize what's causing you to feel these negative emotions, you can better assess whether you need to fight them or avoid any situations that cause them at all costs. But thankfully, this app is free.

One of the key factors of anxiety is not being able to sleep through the night. Whether it's because of fear of someone breaking in, or because we're already trying to figure out how we can get through our to-dos for the next day, it's not fun.

Thankfully, there are apps out there like Nature Sounds. It provides calm and soothing noises made to help your body relax. If you love the sound of rain while you sleep, that's an option, along with thunder, waterfalls, and even ocean waves. There is also a timer for it if you just need the sounds to help you get to sleep and don't want it to play all night.

Happify takes on a unique way to help those struggling with anxiety not only cope but manage it. It provides games that it says can help boost the level of your happiness while at the same time lowering your stress levels. It gets key information from you as soon as you log in for the first time that helps decide which options you need most when it comes to overcoming negative thinking and handling high-stress moments.

You then get to take a quiz every day that helps you see your progress. If you like a good challenge, this could definitely be a win for you. While this one is free to start, users can also download Happify Plus, which comes with even more options. That one is $11.67 a month.