myStrength by Teladoc Health Hack 3.39.2 + Redeem Codes

I rarely review apps, but I believe mental health is very important so I decided to give this a go. I think it has too many things to look at and is not personalized enough. On the main activities page I was expecting to only see the activities relevant to the options I chose. I like how there is a tracker of the activities I have completed; although, it was a little non-intuitive to find the tracker in the me > account section > my information. I think it belongs in the progress tab, because it is progress to complete things. The app is overall a good idea. This is only my first day exploring the app, so I will continue using and see how it goes.

Sidenote: I found the app through my KP (Kaiser Permanente) app and signed on there with my KP username/pass. Then I completed the email/pass for further sign-on.

The whole point of mental health help is to get your thoughts, feelings, and very specific problems out onto paper, a platform that is suppose to save your answers, or a therapist who has notes and memory. Thanks to the pandemic, apps have become our new trusted advisors. You’d want your “trusted advisor” who is harboring all of your mental issues to maybe keep a memory of some kind so you can look back on your answers. NOPE. I spend an hour completing activities and really getting into my mindfulness. Then I go back to so I can re-read and share my answers with a person I trust LIKE THE APP TELLS ME TO DO, and they are all erased. I had 5 paragraphs of detailed entries. Nothing glitched, my phone didn’t die half way, it just decided to say it was complete and erase everything I did. This is quiet defeating for a person with sever mental health issues wouldn’t you? So I tested it and didn’t write anything, hit done and it still said “activity completed.” Nothing makes you feel more like you wasted your time than not seeing a word of what you wrote. The least this app could do to make some sort of effort for their users or “patients” is to save what they write down.

The app is used through work as incentive for heath benefits. Last year you had to log in everyday for a period of time to get point rewards. It was a struggle then because as mentioned by other reviewers the app is not intuitive at all. The front page does not change based on your personalizations. I have the same topics there for over a year and even when you go to explore there are so many clicks to find a topic of interest. The app does not recognize the areas you spend the most time and move to the front page for easy access. Last year I got into a rhythm to find my section since I was doing it daily.
This year the reward is to complete a session weekly. Each topic has so many sub layers I don’t even know what constitutes a “session “.
The progress tab only seems to track sleeping and nothing else. I am not there for the sleeping section.
No improvements have been made to the layout since I have had this app which is disappointing.

I just signed up for mystrength online and the website lets me track my habits by saying when I completed the habit by clicking a button. This enables calendar based tracking of habits and progress towards my goals. I downloaded the app specifically so I could track my habits since I know I will forget to do it on the desktop site but will not forget if I have an app. Sadly the app only lets me view my habits, add habit, or delete habit. I cannot track if I did my habit or not.

I give two stars instead of one star because the track your health tool appears to function the same on the website and the app which is great. I would give five stars if the feature of habit tracking is the same as on your desktop website. It would be also be a nice to have to set a notification reminder each day to prompt me to enter a tracking entry.

I'm using this app to improve my sleep. I like the content and the idea, but there are some issues that make me hesitate to rely on it.

I got different averages of my sleep time and suggested sleep schedules in the app vs on the website. The website seemed more accurate, and so now I really don't trust the app, which defeats the purpose.

Also, it would be more helpful for me if the sleep log reminders were from the app and used the app, instead of being email reminders that take you to the website - I don't generally read my email first thing in the morning, and may skip days, but I will look at my phone.

Lastly, the navigation of the app is odd and unintuitive. I couldn't find the sleep log for more than a week in the app until I stumbled over it under Progress.

Basically it seems like the app isn't quite as useful or reliable as the website, which is unfortunate since I'm more likely to use an app consistently.

I recommend this app for anyone who is dealing with some sort of mental health issue no matter how minor. It’s very informative and the programs give me really good advice. It is important though to do everything they tell you and try and keep on it.
The only thing I didn’t like was how they’re are several journals that cannot be accessed on the progress tab. Like the thought tracker log and the activity log should be accessible there.
I do recommend writing these things down instead of doing it on the phone all the time. It works better.

Everyone should still download and use it. Good luck.

I have been trying various meditation apps because we are living in such anxious times. For a personalized supportive introduction to meditation, I have responded best to Ofoso’s voice and personality on the Balance app. Although there are many good suggestions here, this myStrength app is too impersonal. Also, many of the “experts “ in the videos are well meaning but unfortunately they are inexperienced and/or ineffectual for reasons too lengthy to be listed here. (For instance, the pace of their information ranges from too rapid to be useful to too slow - - boring and/or uninformed.) I was hoping for better. I appreciate Kaiser sharing free apps, but they don’t seem to realize that this app doesn’t allow most people to feel successful when that is exactly what they need to begin feeling better. And that’s the fault of the app, not the people seeking help.

I was offered the use of this service through my job. I did not trust giving personal deatails about my mental health to my employer/a shady website so I did my research. This company uses your responses and even uses AI to listen and transcribe your video sessions on this site. They use that data for many purposes, but they can also “target” you with the information you provide them to try and make you behave the way they want you to. The website even says at the bottom that they are not a healthcare provider and nothing they give is medical advice, yet that is what they act like this is. Please do not use this app, go to a real doctor who will keep your information private and not use it against you .

Firstly, it asks for a lot of personal information. But no mechanism to delete it if you don’t like the app. I didn’t like it. Here is why. Audio sometimes keeps playing even once you’ve left the screen. So you can have two audio lessons playing at once. There are lots of condition area, but each one is super shallow. The kind of learnings are the same as the top result of a google search. The navigation is awful. No swipe to go back. A dialog “are you sure?” to close a modal. Module suggestions that make no sense e.g. pregnancy module for a 60 year old male. The quizzes are often patronizing. I am thoroughly disappointed in my provider for suggesting this and shocked they pay for it.

I quit this app after the people you talked to gave up on talking to me. That's fine, I don't expect them to be miracle workers. The 1 star review is coming over a year later because the people who run the mailing list had the gall to send me an email with the headline "action required." Then when I tried to unsubscribe I had to log in with a password for a service I hate from over a year ago. I will never do "forgot my password" to UNSUBSCRIBE from something. At this point though I basically expect this sort of awful behavior and design from the mental health industry and from Kaiser specifically.