AntiStress

Västra Götalandsregionen

About this app

AntiStress – use conscious breathing and assess your stress level

AntiStress helps you deal with everyday stress. An audio guide teaches you conscious breathing, which research has shown can reduce stress and increase your well-being. To help you begin to understand your stress levels, the app allows you to make daily notes about what saps or boosts your energy and your perceived stress level. These notes are kept in your personal diary on your smartphone.

How can listening to AntiStress help me?
When we are stressed, we automatically breathe shallower and faster. If we consciously breathe more calmly and deeper, it sends signals to the brain which reduce stress. Try to practise AntiStress every day. Using the method regularly can help to manage thoughts and feelings that might otherwise prevent you from having a sense of well-being. Give yourself time and patience. The AntiStress self-care programme is designed to prevent and reduce stress. AntiStress should be seen as a complement to other care programmes that reduce the amount of stress in your life. If you have serious stress-related problems, it is important that you contact your healthcare centre.

The AntiStress app is produced by the Research and Development Unit at Primary care Fyrbodal, Region Västra Götaland. Research in several fields of medicine have been used in its development by Tina Arvidsdotter, PhD in Health Sciences.

Ratings and reviews

Amazing really calms you down when you are upset, stressed, and/or overwhelmed just listen to the breathing exercises with head or ear phones, and writing down your feeling in the diary is really effective. If I can ask for anything else in the app it would probably be a relaxing game where you don't lose. Sorry so long I just really like the app! :)

I love this thing!! Its so easy. It just gives me breathing exercises to choose from as well as relaxing sounds and a journaling section formatted into a calendar I can track. It checks in with me daily about my mood so I can watch my progress as I use the app. It's so simple and the colors are SO relaxing. The overall design rocks my socks off. Very well designed app! - a design student.

Amazing, you can write down how you feel. The sound are really relaxing, I've been playing this for a week and already it pulls my stress levels down. It's amazing definitely recommend this if your stressed or if you can't sleep.

What's new

Various accessibility improvements