Calm Harm Overview
What is Calm Harm?
Calm Harm is a free app designed to help individuals who struggle with self-harm. The app provides immediate techniques to break the cycle of self-harm behaviors, explore underlying trigger factors, build a safety net of helpful thoughts and behaviors, and access supportive people. The app is built to NHS standards and approved by ORCHA. It is private, anonymous, and safe.
Features
- Choose activities from categories such as Comfort, Distract, Express Yourself, Release, and Random
- Breathing technique to help be mindful and stay in the moment, regulate difficult emotions, and reduce tension
- Journal and self-reflect
- Signposts to help
- Private, anonymous, and safe
- Developed for teenage mental health charity stem4 by Clinical Psychologist Dr. Nihara Krause, in collaboration with young people, using principles from the evidence-based Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)
- Award-winning app, including Health Tech Awards Winner ‘Best Healthcare App of the Year’ 2021, Digital Leaders 100 Awards Winner ‘Tech for Good Initiative of the Year’ 2020, and Third Sector Awards Winner ‘Digital Innovation of the Year’ 2019
- Not a substitute for assessment and individualized treatment by a health/mental health professional
- Passcode and security answer cannot be reset if forgotten, requiring the app to be reinstalled and previous data to be lost.
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Product Details and Description of
The urge to self-harm is like a wave. It feels the most powerful when you start wanting to do it. Join over 2 million users and learn to ride the wave with the free Calm Harm app by choosing activities from these categories: Comfort, Distract, Express Yourself, Release, and Random. There is also a breathing technique to help be mindful and stay in the moment, regulate difficult emotions and reduce tension. When you ride the wave, the urge to self-harm will fade. Calm Harm is an award-winning app developed for teenage mental health charity stem4 by Clinical Psychologist Dr. Nihara Krause, in collaboration with young people, using principles from the evidence-based Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT). It is built to NHS standards and approved by ORCHA. Calm Harm provides some immediate techniques to help break the cycle of self-harm behaviours and explore underlying trigger factors; build a ‘safety net’ of helpful thoughts, behaviours and access to supportive people; and provides the opportunity to journal and self-reflect. It also provides signposts to help. The Calm Harm app is private, anonymous and safe. Reviews from Calm Harm app users: • ‘This app helps me so much. I can't thank you enough for improving my life.’ • ‘I was told by my support worker to download this, best thing I ever did!! It’s helped me a lot through the tough times and I would definitely recommend this!!!’ • ‘This app saves lives. It is a beautiful, beautiful tool. Thank you endlessly.’ Awards for Calm Harm include: • Health Tech Awards Winner ‘Best Healthcare App of the Year’ 2021 • Digital Leaders 100 Awards Winner ‘Tech for Good Initiative of the Year’ 2020 (for stem4’s app portfolio, including Calm Harm) • Third Sector Awards Winner ‘Digital Innovation of the Year’ 2019 Please note that the Calm Harm app is not a substitute for the assessment and individualised treatment by a health/mental health professional. Please also note that if you forget both your passcode and security answer, these cannot be reset as we do not create user accounts. You will need to reinstall the app, losing any previous data.
Top Reviews
By the321human04
This app has literally saved my life
This is a wonderful concept. I think my favorite part about it is that the activities have categories. For instance, very few health apps have a “distract” solution. This is often one of the most important ways to help someone in the moment. Thank you for being absolute geniuses. The customization within the app is also very soothing, and the little characters are adorable. Science says that living by a body of water is good for the mind, so your theme is sweet and reminds me of the ocean and every wonderful memory I have from going to beaches. If there is any way in which I can support your app, I would love to. I do recommend that you take a page to list hotlines, not your own, but maybe the national hotlines for most countries. I don’t know what permissions are involved with that, but I feel like that would be the only touch that could make this even better than it already is.
By Soccerkitty12
Changed my life!
I started cutting myself about 5 months ago. I didn’t think it was that bad until my friend told me she cut herself and was getting a therapist. I knew I had to tell my mom. It was hard. I stayed up for a whole night thinking of what to do. I told my mom after school the next day. She was glad I told her and helped me. I went a week without cutting (hardest week ever). Unfortunately I started cutting again from stress. Then I found this app. It changed my life. I don’t know what I would do without it. I’m now 1 week without cutting. It may not seem like a lot but it is a big accomplishment for me. I just want to say thank you. This app is amazing.
By Pumpkin buttercup
Helps a lot
I’ve been struggling with self harm for years now and it’s been pretty hard to manage. This app definitely helps a lot, and I love how it tracks your moods and lets you use a journal to keep track of your progress. The only thing I would suggest is that after you “ride the wave” it asks you to pick how you’re feeling (sad, numb, angry, etc.) and it only lets you pick one. It would be nice if it would let you pick multiple because there are some days when I feel both angry and sad equally. But other than that the app is awesome, but just keep in mind that it doesn’t work for everyone. Hugs!
