Helpful Resources

Helpful resources categorized by topic:

Urgent

Mental Support Community A forum where you can post when you are in crisis RIGHT NOW, and need peer support as quickly as possible.
Samaritans UK (email, postal mail, in-person, and over the phone).
Crisis Text Line– USA, text with a trained crisis responder.
BoysTown National Hotline (email, chat, phone).
National Suicide Prevention Hotline (phone, chat).
RAINN online hotline [Rape, abuse, and incest national network]
Lifeline Crisis Chat is a online chat where you can talk to trained operators in times of crisis.
2-1-1 phone number to call in US for resources including emergency housing and food (United Way).
You Feel Like Shit – An Interactive Self Care Guide is a great place to start if you’re having a bad episode and need help calming down (this is good for troubleshooting your mental health, but it does not contain interpersonal support).
Niteline: an emergency chat service for nighttime from UK, run by students for students.
Project LETS has peer support chats.

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General resources

PsychForums Psychology and Mental Health Forums, a great place to ask questions and learn more.
Psych Central Forums and great information.
How to find a Support Group How to find the proper support group and other resources.
DailyStrength A support forum for a variety of different situations and disorders/illnesses.
Medline Plus is the National Institutes of Health’s Website for patients and their families and friends. It brings you information about diseases, conditions, and wellness issues.
The Treatment Advocacy Center is an United States of America nonprofit organization working to eliminate barriers to timely treatment of severe mental illness.
Active minds is the only organization working to utilize the student voice to change the conversation about mental health on college campuses.
This post gives information on what Tics are and how they are treated.
Here’s some tips for preparing for a natural disaster when you have a mental illness.
Looking for a book about mental illness? Check out our Book List!
2-1-1 phone number to call in US for resources including emergency housing and food (United Way)
National Resource Center on Psychiatric Advance Directives

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General techniques & posts

This is a step by step guide to belly breathing.
Here are some exercises you can do that helps to keep you in the present: grounding techniques, mental grounding exercises, physical grounding exercises, soothing grounding exercises.
Having trouble falling asleep? Here are some tips from followers that might help.
This is a guide on how to make a comfort box.
Safety plan cards are a great idea to keep in your wallet or comfort box which reminds you of your coping mechanisms and people who you can call to be safe.
Tips on remembering to take medication.
Pleasant event scheduling is a very simple technique where you do at least 3 pleasant events per week so your life if filled with happy enjoyable moments. Here is also a Pleasant Activities List where you can rate how enjoyable you find an activity. Don’t worry about the scoring – this is just a way to help you gauge which activities to include that will help the most.
Here is a post listing 8 simple tips to help overcome loneliness.
This post lists 10 tips on how to work through feelings of social isolation.
You Feel Like Shit – An Interactive Self Care Guide helps you work through bad episodes and takes you through things that might be wrong

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Getting & talking to a therapist

This post on picking a therapist has some great tips.
This is a step by step on getting a therapist.
Psychiatrist, psychologist, therapist or counsellor?
50 Signs of Good Therapy
Having issues with therapy? Here are 50 Warning Signs of Questionable Therapy
Does my parent have to give me permission to go to therapy?
Some frequently asked questions about therapy
21 Tips for getting the most out of each therapy session
6 Ways to open up to your therapist
Reasons why you should go to therapy
5 Tips on how to talk about yourself in therapy
Need to find a therapist by location? Psychology today lets you search by city or zip code in the USA, Canada, or UK.
Can’t afford therapy? No insurance? Need low cost options? Here is a great list of ways to get help when money or insurance is an issue.
Here is a video Demonstrating what a first therapy session may look like made by a mental health professional.
7 things to do during your first therapy appointment

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Helping a friend

Want to help a friend or loved one with Social Anxiety? This post provides some great tips.
How to help a friend experiencing an anxiety or panic attack.
Helping a friend who has an eating disorder.
Living with & Loving Someone with Borderline Personality Disorder
60 Tips for supporting loved ones with Schizophrenia spectrum disorders or any other MI.
NAMI guide on helping a struggling friend
Helping a friend or family member
9 things not to say to someone with mental illness
Active Minds guide to helping a friend you’re worried about.
More tips on helping a friend
How to Confront a Friend (applies to both when you are concerned about them and when there is conflict in your relationship).
ldonline: a website dedicated to educators and friends and to help them support people with learning disabilities.

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How to tell someone about your mental health & interactions with others

This post on telling someone about your mental health problem has some great tips and advice.
This is a post with links to various module you can complete to help you assert yourself.
Talk about Mental Health
How to start your conversation
How to tell the people you love
Video for Parents By Teens Explaining Depression
How and When to Disclose Mental Illness

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Medication

MIM post on free and cheap meds
Paying for Medications and Understanding Your Health Insurance
Generic Medication Info
Help with Drug Costs in the USA.
How To Get Low-Cost or Free Psychiatric Medications
Discount Cards for the USA.
Mental Health Medications Guide describes the types of medications used to treat mental disorders, side effects of medications and directions for taking them.

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Masterposts:

Click on these links for quality masterposts of resources and info on the following topics

Anxiety: guides to anxiety disorders, stress relief info, panic attacks, and treatment options.
Gender Identity Resources: Info on nonconforming gender identities, gender dysphoria, pronouns, non-binary, two-spirit, intersex, coming out and more.
Grief & Loss Masterpost
Mental Health Apps
Schizophrenia & Schizophrenia Spectrum resources
School & Studying: Tips and advice for managing school stressors
Studyblr targeting Neurodivergent/mentally ill students
Self-care
Self-harm: alternatives, distractions, how to care for injuries and more
Sexuality Resources: info about attraction, different sexualities and romantic orientations, coming out and more
For Victims/Survivors of Emotional/Psychological Abuse
For Sexual Abuse Survivors
COVID-19 Resources

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Abuse

Help Guide A site containing articles, help numbers, “tool kits”, and self help.
Mental Support Community A forum to talk about any form of abuse and how it affected you.
Mental Help A site that has basic information, resources, articles, and a list of books that might be helpful.
What is emotional abuse? explores what emotional abuse is.
Domestic abuse is a collection of a few different posts that might help.
This is a link to help find women shelters in the USA.
Coping with flashbacks
Caring for yourself
Psychological abuse
Therapy for abuse victims
Tons of abuse information and coping links
Types of abuse
Is this abuse? Types of abuse
How to leave your abuser
10 ways to build emotional boundaries
Creating emotional freedom
Healthy personal boundaries
Emotional boundaries
11 Warning Signs of Gaslighting

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Addictions

Help Guide A site containing articles to help understand, help numbers, “tool kits”, and self help.
Mental Support Community A forum to talk about addictions and impulse problems and how it affects your life.
Mental Help A site that has basic information, resources, articles, and a list of books that might be helpful.
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Treatment Facility Locator or mental health and substance abuse treatment programs and resources in the USA.
What is private addiction treatment like in Europe?
The addiction center has information on many types of drugs, gambling, and eating disorders, as well as rehab and treatment options.
Drugs Rehabs Centers is where you can find the list of rehab centers, categorized by country and state, all over the world.

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ADD/ADHD

Help Guide A site containing articles to help understand, help numbers, “tool kits”, and self help.
Mental Support Community A forum to talk about ADD/ADHD and how it affects your life.
Mental Help A site that has basic information, resources, articles, and a list of books that might be helpful.
ADHD Blogs & Web Sites
Caddra, the Canadian ADHD Resource Alliance.
Strategies for managing adult ADHD
12 tips for coping with ADHD
Adult ADD/ADHD
50 Tips for managing adult ADD

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Adoption

Mental Help A site that has basic information, resources, articles, and a list of books that might be helpful.
10 Things Adoptees Want You to Know

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Anger Management

Mental Help A site that has basic information, resources, articles, and a list of books that might be helpful.
Here is a post that lists some strategies to keep anger at bay.
This website explains how to gain control over your anger.
10 tips to cope with anger
HelpGuide to anger management
10 tips to tame your temper
Do’s and Don’ts for dealing with anger

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Anxiety- and Panic-Related Symptoms

Help Guide A site containing articles to help understand, help numbers, “tool kits”, and self help.
Mental Support Community A forum to talk about anxiety disorders and how they affect your life.
Mental Help A site that has basic information, resources, articles, and a list of books that might be helpful.
Here is a great explanation of anxiety and some self help tips.
This list of PDFs has tips on muscle relaxation, calm breathing, coping with nightmares, and lots more.
Here is also an article on social anxiety disorder self help tips.
Here is also some information on exploring and coping with panic attacks.
Here is some information and self help tips on how to handle panic attacks.
Here are some exercises you can do that helps to keep you in the present and to control anxiety: grounding techniques, Mental grounding exercises, Physical grounding exercises and Soothing grounding exercises.
You Feel Like Shit – An Interactive Self Care Guide helps you work through bad episodes and takes you through things that might help you feel better.
Here is a self help workbook that you might find helpful: panic attacks workbook.
Here is a video with step by step instructions of how to do breathing techniques to help with panic attacks, made by a licensed therapist.
Beyond Blue – a nonprofit working to address issues associated with depression, anxiety and related disorders in Australia.
Social Anxiety Support
Anxiety management techniques
Self-help for Anxiety Management (SAM) App
Pacifica: Daily Tools for Stress & Anxiety App & Webapp

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Autism

Mental Help A site that has basic information, resources, articles, and a list of books that might be helpful.
Here is a post that explains asperger syndrome.
Here is an online self help book that has some self help tips and information on social skills training.
The thinking person’s guide to autism is a great website full of resources and recommended readings.
A blog with lots of sensory-related suggestions/ideas
6 Self Care Tips for People on the Spectrum
Family Support for Autism Spectrum Disorder
More family support resources

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Bipolar Disorder

Help Guide A site containing articles to help understand, help numbers, “tool kits”, and self help.
Mental Support Community A forum to talk about bipolar and how it affects your life.
Mental Help A site that has basic information, resources, articles, and a list of books that might be helpful.
Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance
FacingUs Clubhouse Wellness Tracker, Wellness Book, Crisis Planning, Etc.
Fireweed Collective is a website with some great resources and some forums.
The Black Dog Institute has some great resources for depression and bipolar disorder.
Here is a webpage that explains hypomania and its symptoms.
bphope is a bipolar disorder support website.

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Body Dysmorphic Disorder

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Body Positivity & self esteem

Stop Hating Your Body A Tumblog promoting acceptance and love for all bodies, regardless of shape, weight, colour, and so forth.
Mental Help A site that has basic information, resources, articles, and a list of books that might be helpful.
Body Positive Zone A tumblr that promotes self love, and loving of all bodies.
This is a great post that lists some resources to help improve your self esteem.
Want a simply way to try and improve your self esteem try this 30 day self esteem challenge.
This is a great article on developing positive self esteem.
This is a post on learning-to-love-yourself.

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Borderline Personality Disorder and Borderline Personality Tendencies

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Bullying

Mental Support Community A forum to talk about bullying in any form and how it affects your life.
Teens Health is a site that covers many teen topics, including middle school and high school bullying
HelpGuide covers many topics on coping with bullying, as well as other mental health topics
A WikiHow on dealing with bullies
5 strategies to help teens cope with bullying

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Chronic Pain and Pain management

This is a text post that lists some techniques to help cope and manage chronic pain.
American Psychological Association has great tips on dealing with pain, as well as other mental illnesses
Here are some chronic pain coping techniques for pain management
WebMD has pain tips too
And here is what Health.com has to say on chronic pain

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Crisis

Mind Information on how to identify a mental health crisis, what to do to prepare, and what to do if you or a loved one is experiencing a mental health crisis.
National Institute of Mental Health has these tips for more urgent situations
MetalHealth.gov has these recommended numbers + sidebar links

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DBT resources

DBT General Information/FAQS: General information on what DBT is and some answered questions about DBT
The 4 Modules of DBT/master list of DBT Skills : this is a list of ALL the DBT skills and parts of DBT with general descriptions of what each one is.
Mindfulness: states of mind: this sheet is about the 3 states of mind that play an important role in mindfulness
Mindfulness: The “WHAT” skills: this sheet describes the what skills of mindfulness, which are the steps to mindfulness
DBT Resources
DBT Self-help
PsychologyTools has great links and PDFs for practicing DBT skills

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Dermatillomania, Trichotillomania and Body-focused Repetitive Behaviors

Experience project – ” I have Dermatillomania” a site where people share their stories/experiences with dermatillomania [ON HIATUS]
SkinPick.com – An online community for those with dermatillomania and/or related disorders. Also has lists of resources and comprehensive information.
Dermatillomania resources – General information on dermatillomania, its causes, treatment, and more.
The TLC Foundation is a site with some great information and resources focused on all BFRBs and does a lot of outreach events
Canadian BFRB Support Network– resources, support, outreach etc
This might also be helpful: a self help program to managing trichotillomania.
50 ways to stop pulling your hair

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Depersonalization/Derealization

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Depression, Dysthymia, and Depressive Symptoms

Help Guide A site containing articles to help understand, help numbers, “tool kits”, and self help.
Mental Support Community A forum to talk about regular unipolar forms of depression and how it affects your life.
Mental Help A site that has basic information, resources, articles, and a list of books that might be helpful.
Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance
FacingUs Clubhouse Wellness Tracker, Wellness Book, Crisis Planning, Etc.
Mood Gym is an interactive website that allows you to learn cognitive behaviour therapy skills for preventing and coping with depression.
What is dysthymia? This is a submission from a follower explaining dysthymia.
What is the difference between dysthymia and major depression?
The black dog institute has some great resources for depression and bipolar disorder.
This is a link to a great workbook you can do to teach you about coping with depression.
Teen version of HelpGuide for depression
WebMD has some natural ways of coping with depression
You Feel Like Shit – An Interactive Self Care Guide is DepressionResource is a blog with great resources on depression and general mental health disorders

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Dissociative Disorders & Dissociation

Mental Help A site that has basic information, resources, articles, and a list of books that might be helpful.
This is a post that explains dissociation in a little more detail.
Dissociative initiative also has some great information and resources.
Here are some exercises you can do that helps to keep you in the present grounding techniques. Mental grounding exercises. Physical grounding exercises. Soothing grounding exercises
This site gives readings on dealing with dissociative symptoms and an audio clip about understanding dissociative disorders
Psychology Today has lots of info on managing dissociation
AboutHealth tell you about coping with flashbacks
Reality Journal

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Eating Disorders and Disordered Eating

Help Guide A site containing articles to help understand, help numbers, “tool kits”, and self help.
Mental Support Community A forum to talk about eating disorders and how it affects your life.
Mental Help A site that has basic information, resources, articles, and a list of books that might be helpful.
The Addiction Center has lots of resources that explain eating disorders, their treatment, and much more.
Kati Morton, a therapist, makes weekly videos about various aspects of living with an eating disorder and coping strategies you can use.
Ways of coping with eating disordered behaviors
HelpGuide on eating disorder treatment and recovery
NEDIC has a wonderful guide on body image, as well as many amazing links
A post on healthy eating

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Grief & Loss

Help Guide A site containing articles to help understand, help numbers, “tool kits”, and self help.
Mental Support Community A forum to talk about the experience of grief and/or bereavement, and the painful process of adjusting to the loss of someone or something you love.
Mental Help A site that has basic information, resources, articles, and a list of books that might be helpful.
SAVE provides suicide bereavement support and offers numerous coping strategies.
Stages of coping with grief and loss
Coping with reminders after a loss
Types of grief and loss

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Homicidal ideation

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Intrusive thoughts

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Isolation

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Jealousy

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Learning Disabilities/Difficulties

Understood: a website dedicated to learning and attention issues. In English and Spanish. It helps you find personalized recommendations, let you chat with an expert or join a discussion, and recreates the experience of someone with learning disabilities for neurotypical people. In addition, it lists various tips and articles, even on the legal side.
Dyscalculia: a website with information on LDs, and tips for coping
ToolsToGrow: a website that provides useful tools for various LDs.
LearningAlly: a no-profit focused on helping people with print disabilities, including blindness, visual impairment, and dyslexia.
@hashtagld: comics about learning disabilities. Very relatable.
Typ-O HD: app that uses a word prediction engine and a spelling error model to help you write, even if your spelling isn’t perfect. The integrated synthetic voice let you hear the word prediction suggestions before selecting and check your text. The app is designed for dyslexic people, but it could be useful for other LDs, too.
Ginger Keyboard: app that offers advanced artificial Intelligence capabilities to analyze your text, learn your writing as you type, and provide you with grammar, punctuation, and spelling corrections accordingly. Support for over 50 languages.

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OCD, Obsessions, and Compulsive Behaviors

Mental Help A site that has basic information, resources, articles, and a list of books that might be helpful.
The ocd foundation has some fantastic links for finding help, resources, links and information about OCD.
This post gives information on what Tics are and how they are treated.
Managing OCD at home
MayoClinic’s guide for coping and support
WikiHow for coping

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Perfectionism

Overcoming perfectionism is a great resource that explains what perfectionism is and gives tips on how to overcome your perfectionist thinking.
This post explains the relationship between perfectionism and procrastination.
This is an article called Perfectionism: the road to failure.
The counseling center offers some great information on perfectionism and tips on how to overcome procrastination.
PDF on overcoming perfectionism
MindTools tips on coping with perfectionism
Helping Gifted Students Cope with Perfectionism

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Personality Styles and Disorders

Mental Support Community A forum to talk about personality disorders (borderline, narcissistic, antisocial, dependent, obsessive-compulsive, etc.) and how these affect people and relationships
Mental Help A site that has basic information, resources, articles, and a list of books that might be helpful
WikiHow How to Deal with Borderline Personality Disorder
Mind has information regarding different types of personality disorders

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PTSD & Trauma

Help Guide A site containing articles to help understand, help numbers, “tool kits”, and self help.
Mental Help A site that has basic information, resources, articles, and a list of books that might be helpful.
Here are some tips and tricks on coping with flashbacks.
Here is a post with some information on PTSD service dogs.
This article explains the link between ptsd and dissociation
Coping with flashbacks
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs & coping with PTSD
HelpGuide on PTSD and coping
NAMI on understanding and coping with PTSD

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Productivity/Motivation/Getting Things Done

7 Things You Need to Stop Doing to Be More Productive, Backed By Science
24 Ways to be Uncommonly Productive Today
21 Tips to Become the Most Productive Person You Know
7 Strategies to be Productive at Work When You’re Depressed
You Thought You Couldn’t Be Productive While Feeling Depressed, Just Wait Till You Read This
Reframe What You Think About Depression
The Silent Tsunami: Mental Health in the Workplace
Consider printing out this guide for your employer: A Mentally Healthy Workplace—It’s Good for Business
12 Steps to Creating Motivation When Depressed
Responding to Unusual Behavior—Low Motivation
When Depression Causes a Lack of Motivation
Finding the Motivation to Recover from Mental Illness
myHomework: useful for students, especially those of us with poor memory. This app is a practical planner: it syncs across devices so you can easily access your classes and assignments anytime and anywhere, and it reminds you of assignments, classes, tests, due dates, etc.
SoundNote: this app is useful if you have to take notes. It records the lesson and then, if you’re looking for a specific moment, you just have to type what you remember (even just a word) and the app will jump at that point in the recording.
Audionote: same as SoundNote.

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Psychosis

Psychotic experiences: explains psychotic experiences, including possible causes and how you can access treatment and support. Includes tips for helping yourself, and guidance for friends and family.
Psychosis: NAMI’s page on psychosis, symptoms, definitions, and treatment
This article on NCBI which has symptoms, treatments, types, medications, and experiences.
EPI- Early Psychosis Intervention: lots of good resources if you live in Canada BC, and it has good information about managing at home, definitions and other tools.
Dealing with Psychosis: a toolkit for moving forward with your life
Reality Journal
You Feel Like Shit – An Interactive Self Care Guide might help you calm down during an episode

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Rape and Sexual Assault

What not to say to a survivor of assault & why
What to say to a rape or sexual abuse survivor
RAINN: The nation’s largest anti-sexual assault organization (how to report)
Rape Recovery Center
After Silence is to support, empower, validate, and educate survivors of rape, sexual abuse and all types of sexual violence by providing a safe, extensive, reliable and easy-to-read website where victims can find the answers and support they need to heal and reclaim their lives.
Recovery timeline
Coercive rape
Resources for Asexual survivors of sexual assault
Rape Crisis Network Europe, or RCNE, the network of European centers which support survivors of sexual violence.
RainLily, Hong Kong’s first one-stop rape crisis centre for female victims of sexual violence.
International Rape Crisis Hotlines
Pandora’s Project provides resources and an online support group, message board, and chat room for rape, sexual assault, and sexual abuse survivors.

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Relationship Problems

Mental Support Community A forum where you can talk about relationship difficulties, such as how hard it is to make relationships work.
Mental Help A site that has basic information, resources, articles, and a list of books that might be helpful.
How to Stop Arguing and Actually Solve Your Relationship Problems
How to Deal With Losing a Friend
Coping With Cliques

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Relaxation

10 Relaxation Techniques That Zap Stress Fast
Relaxation techniques: Try these steps to reduce stress
6 Breathing Exercises to Relax in 10 Minutes or Less
Relaxation Techniques for Stress Relief
Progressive Muscle Relaxation
You Feel Like Shit – An Interactive Self Care Guide will take you through steps to help relax

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Schizophrenia

Help Guide A site containing articles to help understand, help numbers, “tool kits”, and self help.
Mental Support Community A forum to talk about schizophrenia and how it affects your life.
Mental Help A site that has basic information, resources, articles, and a list of books that might be helpful.
This website has lots of comprehensive information about schizophrenia, it’s causes, treatment and management.
NAMI’s guide to coping with schizophrenia + definitions
60 Tips for Helping People who have Schizophrenia
Psychosis: NAMI’s page on psychosis, symptoms, definitions, and treatment
Reality Journal
You Feel Like Shit – An Interactive Self Care Guide might help you calm down during an episode

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Self Injury

Feeling the need to self injure? Please take a look at these posts: 24 ways to avoid self injury & Alternatives to self harm. More alternatives to self harm.
Check out this support community for individuals who self harm recover your life.
Help Guide A site containing articles to help understand, help numbers, “tool kits”, and self help.
Understanding self injury is a text post that explains that self injury is an addiction and the different forms of self injury.
Mental Support Community is a forum to talk about self harm and how it affects your life.
StudentsAgainstDepression has great coping skills and support
WikiHow on coping with self-injury
Self-harm coping tips and distractions

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Service animals

ADA service animal definition
Post about PTSD dogs also contains some links to other resources.
Examples of some tasks psychiatric service dogs can perform.
A good overview of what psychiatric service dogs do.
Myths & facts about service dogs.

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Sexuality & Gender

Mental Support Community A forum to talk about sexuality issues including performance and lack of desire issues, fetishes, sexual addictions & compulsive pornography use and the impact of these issues on self-esteem and relationships.
Mental Help A site that has basic information, resources, articles, and a list of books that might be helpful.
How to cope with your sexuality (teen version)
Defining sexual health

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Sleep Disorders

Mental Help A site that has basic information, resources, articles, and a list of books that might be helpful.
Help Guide’s tips and information on sleep and sleeping better.
The Sleep Forum is an informative website about sleep disorders, including podcasts, tips, and clinical trials.
Sleep Foundation has topics related to sleep, information about sleep disorders and solutions to bad sleep.
Hypersomnia Foundation is a helpful website with information on sleep disorders, focusing on EDS.
KLS Foundation has information and resources on Kleine Levin Syndrome.
Narcolepsy Fact Sheet
Insomnia Facts and Statistics
Tips for Better Sleep
Nightmare Protocol from DBT
Worksheet for nightmares
Insomnia & Anxiety
“Sleep Better, Cope Better”: 6 Insomnia Causes & Cures
Sleep Hygiene
Types of Sleep Disorders

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Stress

Mental Help A site that has basic information, resources, articles, and a list of books that might be helpful.
It might also help to read this on managing stress.
HelpGuide’s guide to stress management
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s guide on stress
PsychCentral’s guide to stress management

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Suicide Prevention

Feeling Suicidal? Please take a moment to read this post on how to cope with suicidal thoughts.
Want to help someone who is feeling suicidal? This post on suicide prevention might help.
The international association for suicide prevention is dedicated to preventing suicidal behavior and alleviating its effects. It also has links to forums.
A list of Reasons NOT to Commit Suicide_
Mental Help A site that has basic information, resources, articles, and a list of books that might be helpful..
Suicide: an Honest Discussion How to cope with suicidal thoughts/ideation made by a MHP

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Teen issues

Helping Teens They address topics such as suicide, depression, sex, sexuality & pregnancy, self harm, rape & abuse, school & after school, bullies, relationships, family & friends, smoking, self esteem, religion & spirituality, general health, disorders & eating disorders, drugs & alcohol
Teen Advisor
Teen Issues
Emotions & Life
WebMD for teens

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Tourettes

Mental Help A site that has basic information, resources, articles, and a list of books that might be helpful.
This post gives information on what Tics are and how they are treated.
Help for kids and teens
Coping and support
WikiHow on coping
Tics in public & how to cope with them

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Interactive websites

Mood Gym is an interactive website that allows you to learn cognitive behaviour therapy skills for preventing and coping with depression. The techniques can additionally be applied to a range of mental health issues.
Superbetter Superbetter is an interactive way to focus on recovery from pretty much anything. It was created by a video game designer when she was recovering from a traumatic brain injury and can be used to help with recovering from various mental or physical health issues.
Moodscope is a website with tools that help to track your mood.
You Feel Like Shit – An Interactive Self Care Guide is a website that will take you through steps to feeling okay during times when you don’t feel well.

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Getting a Job

NAMI has a lot of information legal rights, employment assistance programs, and a PDF factsheet
Job rights for the mentally ill
Access to Work

Relaxation techniques: Try these steps to reduce stress

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