SilverCloud Health

I am using this app but I have to enter my email and password every time. I have enabled Face ID but I still have to enter the login. Also there is often no way to navigate back and forth in the app. I have to close it and log back in. Very frustrating

If I log in to SilverCloud using Safari it is straight forward, as my login and password are remembered. However, if I try to using the SilverCloud app, every time I have to type in my username (it doesn’t recognise my email) and password, which is annoying. Only then it does a Face ID. What is going on? My username and password are stored in the passwords app!

Just another app that bombards you with an overwhelming amount of information which you can find yourself! It wouldn’t surprise me if all the “support” you got from this are bot responses! Attempted to use this app after being referred to it, made account, answered a questionnaire, and got locked into a page with information on services to call if you need help! Unable to do anything else but just look at that page, great app great support “rolls eyes” Mentality exhausted before trying this, even more worse off now thanks silver cloud! Mental health is messed up as it is and the best they can do is send you to an app that clearly doesn’t work for everyone, and they have the audacity to say it’s proven help! Just because it’s helped a majority of people is no way to verify it’s proven! I genuinely feel sorry for the minority of people that are really trying to help themselves by reaching out for this “help” and getting nothing in return apart from another run around! What a life !

When I asked my gp for therapy I (perhaps naively) thought that that would involve actually talking to somebody about about my problems and working together to create strategies to help me improve my mental health. I got one phone call to assess me, which was great, and a brief follow up call during which I felt hugely pressured into using this app instead of actually talking to someone, despite me clearly stating that I didn’t think it would work for me and that I’d prefer the weekly phone calls. What I wanted was human interaction and help discussing and working through my anxiety issues. What I got was a bunch of poorly made self help YouTube videos and a weekly typed (copy/pasted) review from my “supporter”. I would highly recommend that if you’re given the choice between using this app or actually talking to a therapist then you push hard to do the latter. I felt completely fobbed off and let down by this service which, for someone already struggling with their mental health, is not a great feeling.

The supporters are really nice and helpful, but only being able to send and receive one message a week isn’t very productive. It’s great if you have absolutely no clue what your doing but maybe isn’t as helpful if you’re already quite emotionally mature or have a mental condition such as autism as it affects the way you process things. It also only deals with the mental side of things, so if the symptoms you’re really struggling with are more physical like pain then it’s not as effective, but can still help ease the weaker symptoms.

I’m reviewing the service itself, rather than the app in particular. I cannot argue that this may work for some and I, myself did find some modules, tools and tips somewhat helpful. My main personal observations were: - I’m fairly sure the responses from the supporter were auto-generated (possibly some chat bot usage reviewed by a human or at least mostly scripted), based on what modules have been done and rarely (if at all) had interactive questions or anything digging deeper into your responses. - The whole programme comes across as another to do item, as it’s made clear there is a ‘strict’ attendance policy, and that feels counterintuitive for users suffering with anxiety caused by overworking, for example. I didn’t use this programme alone, I found other sources in audiobooks and free internet content that was just as, if not more helpful in some areas, but everyone’s mileage will vary. I cannot fault it more than that, I was skeptical going in but overall I think it has helped me to at least have more tools available in the mindful toolbox.

Can’t use this as the people speaking are far too “mouth noisy” My nerves are shot as they are and listening to the mouth noises of these people talking just make me want to go berserk. It’s shocking that this app is so hyped within the app but nowhere else. I have no trust or patience

I feel so let down by this programme. It is full of videos saying’I was struggling and I did this and now I’m great’. Simplistic questionnaires. A really clunky and co fusing interface so you can’t find anything and don’t know what it is for anyway. Do not put any hope in CBT. This was awful and has made me feel so much worse than I was before.

Terrible clunky basic app, little support. I’m going to go on YouTube and watch some videos on supporting anxiety, cbt et.far better than this load of rubbish

I was genuinely willing to give this app a go, but if anything, it made how I was feeling even worse. To have the state of your health judged by a repeated, woolly-questioned survey is horrendous and the ‘supporter’ really isn’t much support at all. Particularly when you get only one short message every week. I found it all incredibly impersonal, disappointing and at times, quite upsetting. The CBT exercises are fine, but not anything I hadn’t come across before and also not that intuitive in terms of what I should be doing and how often. Very much felt like I was a subject of a tick-box exercise and no more.