Value mental health, balance online connections.
You'll find a few options for mental support below.
Visit HelpGuide to find information on both the positive and negative aspects of social media on mental health. This site also provides modifications to your daily rountine to help manage your time on social media and maintain a healthy, balanced lifestyle so you can still keep in touch with friends or family online while valuing your mental wellbeing. Information for parents on how to help their child cope with unhealthy social media use can be located here.
Interested in podcasts? NPR has created an eight minute quick-listen recording on teens, social media, and the mental health crisis. Listen to their lecture or read the article underneath to get a better understanding of the relationship between depression, anxiety, and negative mental health to the addictive, unhealthy use of social media.
Want to read a short guide on detecting the signs of internet and social media addiction? Visit the Crisis and Trauma Resource Institute (CTRI) to get a better understanding of how this type of addiction presents itself. Gain more knowledge on symptoms and self-treatment options to help a loved one or yourself regain control.
Ruminaze embodies the sharing capabilities of social media without the harmful, addictive designs most well-known social media platforms use. We want to re-invent social media, bridging the gap between wellness apps and social media. Our motto, "share with care," is designed into every aspect of our app and we hope that all of our users will benefit from our positive take on social media.
Our app includes the same features of well-known social media platforms, including a personalized feed of friends and family posts. In addition to many of the features on regular social media apps, Ruminaze Mobile includes a feature allowing you to write your own prompts and share them between your contacts. Prompts ranging from playful agendas to write your own haiku to more serious questions involving your wellbeing are found in our app.
With Ruminaze, you can share and create just like regular social media, only without the negativity. Removing the 'like' button and negative ads, we've made sure to only act as a platform where you're in-control, and not the other way around. Our app also encompasses a built-in time usage and daily check-in feature to help you track your usage on ours and other social media apps, so you can make the choice to limit or increase your daily screen time.