Molehill Mountain

Autistica

About this app

Molehill Mountain has been developed by Autistica and King’s College London to help autistic people understand and self-manage their anxiety.

We have worked with closely autistic people at every stage in developing Molehill Mountain to ensure that it is easy for autistic people to use and is relevant to their needs.

Molehill Mountain is based on Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT), a well-established and clinically proven technique for managing the symptoms of anxiety. The app has been developed with the full involvement of Professor Emily Simonoff, Dr Ann Ozsivadjian and Dr Rachel Kent from the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN) at King’s College London.

Most autistic people experience anxiety on a regular basis. Around eight out of ten will have symptoms of anxiety – and of these, three or four will have enough symptoms to be given a diagnosis of anxiety disorder.

Molehill Mountain allows you to track your worries and identify the situations that trigger your anxiety. Your daily check-ins are plotted on a chart which allows you to identify pattern and trends – and you can also display a previous check-in to help you identify recurring triggers for your anxiety.

Over time, you unlock tips that will help you to understand your anxiety and learn ways to manage it. The daily tips have been completely rewritten for this new version of Molehill Mountain. In addition, we have added dozens of extra mini-tips to cover many of the common causes of anxiety and stress in autistic people, such as hypersensitivity to noise, light and touch or difficulties with social situations and communication.

The app also has interactive CBT activities which you can use at any time. These draw upon well-established and clinically proven techniques and are designed to help you to recognise and overcome unhelpful patterns of thinking.

The development of Molehill Mountain has been supported by:
• The Maudsley Charity
• The Worshipful Company of Information Technologists’ Charity
• The Pixel Fund


Autistica

Autistica is the UK’s national autism research charity. They exist to create breakthroughs that enable every autistic person to live a happy, healthy and long life. They do so by:
• Shaping and growing research across the UK
• Funding new and innovative research solutions
• Campaigning for better services and shaping national policy
• Sharing evidence-based tools, resources, and information

https://www.autistica.org.uk/


The Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN) at King’s College London

King’s College London is one of the top 10 UK universities in the world (QS World University Rankings, 2018/19) and among the oldest in England. King’s has more than 31,000 students (including more than 12,800 postgraduates) from some 150 countries worldwide, and some 8,500 staff.

The Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN) at King’s College London is the premier centre for mental health and related neurosciences research in Europe. It produces more highly cited outputs (top 1% citations) on mental health than any other centre (SciVal 2019) and on this metric we have risen from 16th (2014) to 4th (2019) in the world for highly cited neuroscience outputs. World-leading research from the IoPPN has made, and continues to make, an impact on how we understand, prevent and treat mental illness and other conditions that affect the brain.

https://www.kcl.ac.uk/ioppn/

Ratings and reviews

I feel like this app has a lot of potential, but honestly it's seriously lacking depth. Identifying your worries is important, but I feel like after your first check in if you happen to want to make any progress you're kinda forced to wait, which is a bit silly. There's no real reason to do much else with it until the next day, and for me personally I was kinda in a rough spot. I was hoping for more guidance day 1 but that didn't happen and was left with a single tip and my worrying. Not great.

Been using this app fairly consistently for over a year. In general I quite like it, its nice to keep track of my biggest worries and to measure my anxiety. But I've been having trouble using it the past few days... I try to open it, and it tells me it's having issues connecting to the servers and won't actually open. I've turned off and on my wifi and 4g, cleared the cache (which sometimes helps in other apps) etc. I don't know what to do. I had a check in streak of like 120ish days going.

Since the latest update the App has stopped working which is a shame. it now says it can't connect. I've cleared the cache, reinstalled and tried on/off WiFi to no avail. Prior to this I was finding it useful to track my anxiety level from day to day and to some extent certain triggers. It had become part of my routine and it's disappointing to have lost this. It was useful to show both my manager and therapist.

What’s new

What's New:

✅ Performance improvements and stability enhancements
✅ Bug fixes and optimizations
✅ Improved error handling

Thank you for using Molehill Mountain!