Critical Care Recovery Service

Web Link: NHS Approved App: Catch It

An NHS approved app for anyone who is struggling with feelings like anxiety, depression, anger and conusion - feelings that are very normal during a stay in intensive care and after you have been discharged. Recovery takes time. Learn how to manage feelings like anxiety and depression with Catch It. The app will teach you how to look at problems in a different way, turn negative thoughts into positive ones and improve your mental wellbeing. Catch It uses cognitive behavioural...

Web Link: NHS Approved App: Cove - Create music to help with emotions

Create music to capture your mood and express how you feel with the Cove app. Instead of words, create music to reflect emotions like joy, sadness, calm and anger. You can store your music in a personal journal, or send them to someone and let the music do the talking. Cove is like a mood journal, except instead of using words to express how you feel, you use music. To create music you choose from six different moods – calm, struggling, longing, playful, clouded and...

Web Link: NHS Approved App: Feeling Good - Positive Mindset

We love this app and really think that it can help during recovery during and after a stay in intensive care. Relax your body and mind with a series of audio tracks designed to help you build confidence, energy and a positive mindset. Feeling Good uses relaxation, cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) and resilience building techniques from sport to help improve positive feelings, self-esteem and self-confidence. To get you going, the app offers 4 free audio tracks combining...

Web Link: NHS Approved App: iPrescribe Exercise

Exercise helps both body and mind - particulary after a stay in intensive care. The iPrescribe Exercise app creates a 12-week exercise plan based on health information entered by the user. It then sets the duration and intensity of the exercise based on this information. This helps improve your overall health, but can also be used to manage a number of long-term health conditions and help those at risk of developing them become more active. The iPrescribe Exercise app is free...

Web Link: NHS Approved App: My Possible Self

My Possible Self brings together content from world-leading mental health experts designed to help you learn how to improve your thoughts, feelings and behaviour. The information has been proven to reduce stress, anxious feelings and low mood in just eight weeks. Use the app’s learning modules to prevent day-to-day problems from holding you back, manage fear and improve your happiness and wellbeing. New modules will be added on a regular basis. The app has a free ‘Moments’ feature...

Web Link: NHS Approved App: Pzizz - for anyone struggling to sleep

Struggling to sleep after a stay in intensive care is very common. This app may help. The Pzizz app addresses a common problem for those who have trouble sleeping: a "racing mind" or "thinking too much". Using voiceover narrations based on clinical sleep interventions and specially designed music, Pzizz helps quiet the mind and calm the body into deep rest. Pzizz can continue playing throughout the night to keep a stable sonic environment and help prevent users being woken up by...

Web Link: NHS Approved App: Thrive - Feel Stress Free

Thrive: Feel Stress Free uses games to track your mood and teach you methods to take control of stress and anxiety. Learn relaxation techniques like meditation and deep-breathing to help you cope better with stressful situations and manage negative thoughts. The app's Mood Meter lets you track your mood, the emotions you feel and the situation you were in at the time. It then reminds you of how you reacted on a previous occasion to make your feel better. The app is free to...