We are pleased to announce the launch of our Smartphone Application, Stress Tips, which provides people with ‘top tips’ from fellow anxiety sufferers on how to manage anxiety and stress.
Stress Tips features short audio clips from a whole host of people, from community activists, to celebrities, to therapists in an effort to show that anxiety and stress can and does affect everyone. BAFTA Award winning actress and Anxiety UK Patron, Rebecca Front, provided a tip for managing anxiety and stress. “I lend my support to Anxiety UK because I’ve seen how debilitating and distressing anxiety can be. I myself have suffered with claustrophobia most my life. For me, it’s usually little more than an inconvenience, but for many, many others, anxiety can significantly inhibit their enjoyment of life. Anything that can be done to help them and to remove the needless 
stigma still attached to anxiety is to be supported.”
Stress Tips includes more than 40 tips from people on how they manage stress and anxiety and will be developed further in the future to include relaxation techniques and the ability to upload tips. Nicky Lidbetter, Anxiety UK Chief Executive Officer, said, “Anxiety affects 1 in 6 UK adults , and Stress Tips provides sound advice from people who have been there and know what its like. We want to show people that they are not alone and that they can take steps to feel better.”
Stress Tips is available to download through iTunes and Android Marketplace and is FREE to download and use. Users will hear a series of audio clips and then be prompted to make a donation to 
Anxiety UK if they have found the App useful. There is also a ‘help now’ button on each screen in the event that the user is in genuine distress and in need of help or advice, featuring access to the Anxiety UK helpline, Samaritans and NHS Direct.
Anxiety UK is currently developing Phase 2 of Stress Tips and would love to hear your feedback. We hope to have the latest edition of Stress Tips available in May 2012. Please send your suggestions or what you’d like us to include to media@anxietyuk.org.uk.
Download Stress Tips by clicking the links below
Please remember to rate Stress Tips as this increases our ranking, allowing our App to reach more people.
Stress Tips was developed by Engage Encore and Archibald Ingall Stretton, who sponsored the majority of the development. Pfizer Ltd provided Anxiety UK with a charitable donation to cover a proportion of development and production costs.
