SAM provides a range of self-help techniques organised into several main well-being themes, together with tools for recording and monitoring changes in your well-being. The social cloud feature allows users to give and receive support from others. We ask you to be non-judgemental and sensitive in your interactions with other users. Depending on your circumstances and personal style, you may wish to explore the app and its self-help options before deciding how to make use of it; or you may wish to start with a more structured approach. For a structured approach, use the “Mood Tracker“ feature to record and monitor your experience and the “My Triggers” feature to record situations which affect you. Remember that persistence counts – our research shows that users who monitor over a longer period are more likely to learn to manage their moods If your institution provides a usage code, you can unlock additional content and social spaces tailored to your work, study or treatment community. For more information on this service, please contact [email protected]. All self-help content is informed by established psychological principles. We have aimed to include self-help content that is supported by research, recommended by practitioners and/or rated highly by users. We have tried to offer the self-help options in a variety of formats to suit individual needs and preferences. SAM does not offer clinical diagnoses or therapy programmes although it does provide relevant links for these and to contacts for more immediate help.
Religion
Along with the creators disregarding emails constantly, there’s people treating the app like some religious forum. These are kids who need help not something to put your religious ideologies into.
Irresponsibly Unmonitored
The “Social Cloud” is almost entirely children aged 12-15. Many are genuinely interested in mental health improvement and are mature/articulate enough to be on an UNMONITORED platform. Unfortunately there are also many with poor communication skills who just don’t know how to be respectful. There was a lot of inappropriate behavior (verbal abuse, bullying) that only stopped once several users emailed the support team. There are also some users who should not be on an UNMONITORED forum: Those wanting to wallow in self-pity while having others enable their self-destructive habits and also drama queens seeking attention through exaggeration. The other tools of the app are helpful, but are readily available in other apps.
Unmonitored Fright Fest
The “Social Cloud” is almost entirely children aged 12-15. Some of them are genuinely interested in mental health improvement and are mature/articulate. Unfortunately most have very poor communication skills and just want to wallow in self-pity while having others enable their self-destructive habits. Verbal abuse and other offensive statements happen at least weekly. Every day there are immature drama queens seeking attention through exaggeration. There are no official moderators, it is only user-moderation. Most users are unable to recognize the destructiveness of inappropriate comments and thereby creating a cesspool of contagious self-abuse. The other tools of the app are helpful, but are readily available in other apps.
Crash
It kept logging me out and finally just never let me back in so I just deleted the app.
- Fix crashes, improve diagnostics. - Fix download of self-help content for offline viewing
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