Depression & anxiety programme for chronic pain

Living with chronic pain (CP) can have a huge impact on your mental health and wellbeing.

SilverCloud® by Amwell® is a digital therapy course. It will help you to learn about the link between chronic pain, low mood and worry. By taking the Depression and Anxiety for CP programme, you can find new ways to manage your symptoms, and begin to make some positive changes.

Knowledge and understanding

Worry about chronic pain can increase your anxiety, which in turn can increase your pain symptoms. That can prevent you from doing things you enjoy or that would help you to feel better. This programme will help you to break this cycle.

Skills and strategies

You’ll learn how to catch unhelpful or negative thoughts and deal with them so they don’t take over your thinking. The programme will help you to find things you enjoy and to feel better about doing them. You will learn it all in small, easy steps.

Forging ahead

By the end of the programme, you will understand your condition better and know how to manage it. And you will have a plan to stay well in the future.

Find out more on the Silvercloud website

Download the full information leaflet from Silvercloud here.

Is this programme for me?

You might be surprised to be offered therapy to help with your pain. But knowing about the link between your physical and mental health will allow you to better manage both. This programme will help you to do that.

The digital Depression and Anxiety for CP programme can be accessed on mobile, desktop or tablet, wherever and whenever you need. You can complete it at your own pace; most people take about eight weeks.

There may be days when you don’t feel like using your programme – but even just taking a moment to log your mood or do a relaxation exercise can help you find balance. The smallest actions can make a real difference to how you are feeling.

Modules in the depression and anxiety for CHD programme:

Getting Started – Find out about CBT and how it can help you to feel better.
Understanding Feelings – Tune in to your emotions and physical feelings; see how they might be affected by what you do and don’t do.
Boosting Behaviour – Doing things differently can boost your mood. This module shows you how.
Spotting Thoughts – Catch those thoughts that pop into your mind and stop you from seeing things as they really are.
Challenging Thoughts – Learn how to tackle negative thinking.
Managing Worry – See the role that worry plays in anxiety and learn how to manage it.
Anxiety & Your Health – Spot things you might be doing that keep you fretting about your health. Find out how to change them.
Bringing it All Together – Reflect on what you have learned and how you can put it into practice when challenges emerge.

The Depression and Anxiety for CP programme contains many helpful tools and activities including:

Personal stories – Find out how other people experience chronic pain and how this programme helped them. You will also realise you are not alone.
Quizzes – Test your knowledge of chronic pain. Learn about the factors that influence it.
Relaxation and Mindfulness exercises – Take a moment to slow down and find peace with our podcasts.
Personal journal – Keeping a journal can help to work through your thoughts and feelings. It can help you solve problems, too.
Worry Tree – Break down problems and find some solutions.
Mood Monitor – Track your mood. See how it is impacted by your lifestyle choices.

Cognitive behaviour therapy

This SilverCloud programme is based on cognitive behaviour therapy, or CBT for short. CBT has been used for many years to help people improve their wellbeing. It allows you to become more aware of how you are feeling. It teaches you to make the changes you need to feel better.

“Everything seems easier to deal with now. I no longer mope around the house for days on end. My pain is still ever present, of course, but I feel like now my mood is under control, it is much easier to tolerate.” - Olivia, SilverCloud® user