Coping with Schizophrenia app for iPhone and iPad

Paranoid schizophrenia affects about 1% of opulation. Schizophrenia is a mental illness in which people interpret reality abnormally. Psychosis is a condition that affects the way your brain interprets reality. Psychosis can be caused by Schizophrenia, but it can also be caused by other health conditions like Bipolar I or Depression, as well as medications or drug use. Psychosis can also occur in Schizoaffective disorder, Schizophreniform disorder, Brief psychotic disorder, Delusional disorder, Substance-induced psychotic disorder, and more.

Psychosis symptoms are primarily delusions (false beliefs) and hallucinations (seeing or hearing things that others do not see or hear). Other symptoms include speech difficulties, inappropriate behavior, difficulty with daily functioning, lack of motivation, depression, and anxiety.

This app offers a gamified way to learn mental coping mechanisms for psychotic experiences. You will play a cat called Whiskers who suffers from paranoid schizophrenia. She will hear voices and have dellusions. You have to decide which thinking approaches will help her the most. In this way you will be able to experiment with different beliefs and learn about psychotic experiences. This approach is based on the cognitive behavioral therapy for psychosis. It includes normalising and cognitive restructuring.

DISCLAMER: This app is not a therapeutic tool. It is merely a game that teaches some mental coping mechanisms. It does not replace or act as psychotherapy.