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Find out how you can stay mentally healthy through digital prevention by detecting, intervening and monitoring your mental health with the help of Amay.

Your mental health

Mental health is an essential component of your health and a foundation for your well-being and success in your personal and professional life.

“A state of well-being that enables people to cope with the stresses of life, realise their abilities, learn well and work well, and contribute to their community.” 1

This means that your mental health is precious and needs to be protected as it allows you to be resilient, reach your potential, contribute to your social environment and ultimately lead a happy and healthy life.

Challenge of self-care

However, in daily life it is often times difficult to take care of your mental health given all the different tasks and responsibilities that you have to deal with. You might even be exposed to high levels of stress, anxiety or sadness due to challenges that occur in your personal and professional life. 2

As a result, you might be at risk of developing mental health issues in the long-term or are already experiencing early signs of such issues like burnout, anxiety or depression.

Digital prevention

The good news is that it doesn’t have to be this way. There is a solution:
It’s called digital prevention for mental health.

Digital prevention for mental health allows you to take care of your mental health in a simple, accessible, effective, safe and personal way. 3

In the case of Amay, we use clinical psychology approaches like cognitive behavioural therapy and technology like a mobile app and artificial intelligence to help you take care of your mental well-being.

But how can you use prevention to stay mentally healthy?
Here are 3 simple steps that can guide you:

Step 1: Assess your mental health

To begin, it is important that you gain an insight into your current mental health status and understand what your mental health needs are.

As an example, you might experience a lot of stress-related signs without knowing how to interpret them or how they are interrelated to other mental health issues such as anxiety or sadness.

To assess your mental health, you can complete a mental health assessment like the Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale (DASS 21) 4, the Perceived Stress Scale (PSS) 5, the General Anxiety Disorder Questionnaire (GAD-7) 6 or the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9). 7

Thereby, you can identify your current mental health status and decide what you need to focus on to feel better.

The Amay App helps you detect your mental health by providing you digital self-assessments for mental health that you can complete on your phone.

Step 2: Improve your mental health

Next, it is relevant that you start to change and improve your mental health.

As an example, you might lack knowledge about what mental health is and what you can do to protect it by dealing differently with stressors in your personal life or at work.

To learn about this, you can engage in learning content, exercises and reflections based on cognitive behavioural therapy that help you learn how to identify and deal with early signs of mental health issues. 8

The Amay App helps you intervene your mental health by providing you with mental health coaching 9 and giving you digital prevention courses against stress, anxiety and depression. 10

Step 3: Track your mental health

Finally, it is important that you monitor your mental health and analyse how it changes over time.

To achieve this goal, you can track your state of mind to better understand your daily moods and emotions and to which degree life factors such as fitness, sleep or nutrition affect them. 11

In addition, you can engage in journaling and analyse your mental health trends in terms of early signs of stress, anxiety and sadness over time. 12

The Amay App helps you monitor your mental health by providing you with state of mind tracking, mental health trend analysis and mental health advice.

Learn more

If you want to learn more about how to stay mentally healthy with Amay, check out Amay App and Medical Quality.

Sources

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