1 Technology For Your Recovery Journey

2 Rejection of an identity/role as a life-long “mental patient” “A process of change through which individuals improve their health and wellness, live a self- directed life, and strive to reach their full potential.” (SAMSHA) What is Recovery?

3 What Is Assistive Technology?

4 Focus on Function

5 Not on Fixing

6 What is Neurodiversity?

Areas Covered Stress, PTSD, Mood apps Memory tools Task Management and Completion Getting Help 7

8 Smart Phone, iPod and Tablet Applications Tools for Mood, Anxiety and Stress

9 From Veteran's Administration. App: PTSD Coach Available for both Android and Apple (iOS) devices Apps for PTSD

10 Can customize based on self- assessment Can set up phone numbers to call for support. Can indicate favorites in manage symptoms. Has a chart to track symptoms PTSD Coach

11 PTSD Coach Symptom Management

12 Guided relaxation breathing Personalize a bit with music and image, rate of breathing. Can chart stress/relaxation Breath & Relax

13 Self-Monitor, track and references emotional experiences Can make notes about what’s happening at the time the mood is experienced. T2 Mood Tracker

14 Cognitive Behavior Therapy The referee is a hat you wear, you put on your referee hat and evaluate the thought from a completely neutral point of view “Stinking Thinking”

Task Completion Getting started Can’t concentrate or stay focused Remembering all the steps in a task Just too much to do! 15

16 Check it off the list

17 Alarms and Timers to Help with Focus

Stay on Task App It checks up on you to make sure you're doing your work and not loafing. (Can set to vibrate) A random timer means you can't predict when it will check on you Android app - Free 18

19 Alarms with Audio Reminders

20 Do you have trouble remembering things? What do you do that helps? Memory: What about you?

21 Simple Memory Aids

22 Motion Activated Reminders

23 Medication Devices

24 Voice Recording Devices

25 Remembering Phone Numbers

26 Recording meetings, classes

27 Where are the Keys?

28 Device Demonstrations newsletter and webinars ATXchange.org AT Loan Fund Web: tech.html Michigan’s Assistive Technology Program

29 “Recovery, to me, doesn't mean denying my problems or pretending that they don't exist. I have learned a lot from people with physical disabilities, who think of recovery not in terms, necessarily, of restoring lost function, but of finding ways to compensate or substitute for what one may be unable to do.” – Judi Chamberlin “Confessions of a Non- Compliant Patient” Last Thoughts