{"id":304,"date":"2016-11-15T06:00:18","date_gmt":"2016-11-15T16:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/?p=304"},"modified":"2016-11-14T12:33:46","modified_gmt":"2016-11-14T22:33:46","slug":"the-wary-wide-web-technology-tools-and-grain-of-salt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/15\/the-wary-wide-web-technology-tools-and-grain-of-salt\/","title":{"rendered":"The Wary Wide Web &#8212; Technology Tools and Grain of Salt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/anxious-depressed-theres-an-app-for-that\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/anxious-depressed-theres-an-app-for-that\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A recent post by Jason Perlow on ZDNet. \u00a0I&#8217;m glad that he first prefaced that if you do think you may be suffering from anxiety and depression that you seek help from a licensed mental health professional.<\/p>\n<p>The tools listed are a nice augment but I would put a word of caution. Tools like anything can be used but shouldn&#8217;t be the beginning and end all, nor should they be a persistent crutch. Mindful meditation, mood tracking and communities centered around depression are all helpful but take them in necessary moderation and don&#8217;t use them as a substitute for your formal care.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve spoken in the past about tools and communities such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thinkpacifica.com\/\">Pacifica<\/a> and MyCounterPane. \u00a0Feel free to try them out, find a regimen that works for you. \u00a0Take breaks when you need to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/anxious-depressed-theres-an-app-for-that\/ A recent post by Jason Perlow on ZDNet. \u00a0I&#8217;m glad that he first prefaced that if you do think you may be suffering from anxiety and depression that you seek help from a licensed mental health professional. The tools listed are a nice augment but I would put a word of caution. Tools like &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/15\/the-wary-wide-web-technology-tools-and-grain-of-salt\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Wary Wide Web &#8212; Technology Tools and Grain of Salt&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-slice"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7PG4O-4U","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":305,"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions\/305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}