Helpful Resources:
Addiction:
Mental Support Community: A forum to talk about addictions and impulse problems and how it affects your life.
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Treatment Facility Locator or mental health and substance abuse treatment programs and resources in the USA.
The Addiction Help Center has an extensive range information and resources about different types of addictions including food addictions, work addictions, sex addictions, internet addictions, shopping addictions, gambling addiction and self harm addiction.
Struggling to understand Addiction, or need help figuring out your first steps towards recovery? Click Here for more info!
Struggling to understand Addiction, or need help figuring out your first steps towards recovery? Click Here for more info!
Local Support Groups:
Anxiety & Panic-Related Symptoms:
Mental Support Community: A forum to talk about anxiety disorders and how it effects your life.
This is a guide to Muscle Relaxation that might help your anxiety.
Here is also an article on social anxiety disorder self help tips.
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.
Soothing grounding exercises.
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).
Pacifica [Android] [iOS]
Mindfulness/Yoga Therapy for Anxiety
Living with Anxiety in Madison
Social Phobia/Anxiety (Madison Group)
Depression/Anxiety Support Group
Local Support Groups:
Living with Anxiety in Madison
Social Phobia/Anxiety (Madison Group)
Depression/Anxiety Support Group
Body Dysmorphic Disorder:
Body Positivity & Self-Esteem:
Stop Hating Your Body: A Tumblog promoting acceptance and love for all bodies, regardless of shape, weight, color, and so forth.
Mental Help: A site that has basic information, resources, articles, and a list of books that might be helpful.
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.
This is a community for Asian Americans to share and discuss the unhealthy quest, past and present, for the "perfect" body.
Local Support Groups:
Women's Self Esteem & Relationships
Body Image & Awareness Group (Yoga/Mindfulness)
This is a community for Asian Americans to share and discuss the unhealthy quest, past and present, for the "perfect" body.
Local Support Groups:
Women's Self Esteem & Relationships
Body Image & Awareness Group (Yoga/Mindfulness)
Depression, Dysthymia, & Depressive Symptoms:
Mental Support Community: A forum to talk about regular unipolar forms of depression and how it affects your life.
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.
Local Support Groups:
Depression/Anxiety Support Group
Madison Bipolar/Depression Chat & Chew
Local Support Groups:
Depression/Anxiety Support Group
Madison Bipolar/Depression Chat & Chew
Eating Disorders & 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.
Kati Morton, a therapist, makes weekly videos about various aspects of living with an eating disorder and coping strategies you can use.
NEDA has a wonderful guide on body image, as well as many amazing links.
A post on healthy eating.
Drugrehab is a great resource, which discusses the comorbidity between addiction and Eating Disorders.
Recover Spark is a high quality resource, whose vision is to offer creative resources to those suffering with eating disorders.
The Patient with an Eating Disorder
Meet Matt Shepard's YouTube Page
Student Eating Disorder Awareness Guide
Drugrehab is a great resource, which discusses the comorbidity between addiction and Eating Disorders.
Recover Spark is a high quality resource, whose vision is to offer creative resources to those suffering with eating disorders.
The Patient with an Eating Disorder
Meet Matt Shepard's YouTube Page
Student Eating Disorder Awareness Guide
OCD, Obsessions, and Compulsive Behaviors:
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
PTSD & Trauma:
Help Guide: A site containing articles to help understand, help numbers, “tool kits”, and self help.
This article explains the link between PTSD and dissociation.
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs & coping with PTSD.
Rape & Sexual Assault:
Band Back Together is a resource that deals with a wide range of abuse, rape, and assault issues. Though they are not doctors, their information is helpful, responsible, and non-judgmental.
RAINN: The nation’s largest anti-sexual assault organization (how to report)
Local Support Groups:
Canopy Oasis ProgramSelf-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: A forum to talk about self harm and how it affects your life.
StudentsAgainstDepression have great coping skills and support
Suicide Prevention:
Feeling Suicidal? Please take a moment to read this post on how to cope with suicidal thoughts.
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..
Helplines & Urgent Contact Info.
General:
United Way Hotline: 2-1-1 (WI resource finder)
Mental Support Community: A forum where you can post when you are in crisis RIGHT NOW, and need peer support as quickly as possible.
Crisis Text Line: (USA) text with a trained crisis responder
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)
Suicide:
Domestic Abuse/Sexual Assault:
Domestic Abuse Intervention Services 24-hour Crisis Line: 608.251.4445 or 1.800.747.4045
RAINN online hotline [Rape, abuse, and incest national network]
Rape Crisis Center Helpline: 608.251.7273 (24 hours)
Child-Related:
National Child Abuse Hotline: 1.800.4.A.CHILD (1.800.422.4453)Child Protection Helpline: 608.261.5437 (or 608.255.6067 on nights and weekends)
Youth Services of Southern WI Confidential Counseling: 608.251.1126 (24 hours)
Canopy Center Parent Stressline: 608.241.2221 (6am-midnight)
WI First Step Hotline: 1.800.642.7837
(Info and Referral for families with children and youth [from birth-age 21] with special health care needs)
Children w/ Special Health Care Needs: 1.800.532.3321 or 608.265.8610
AODA Related:
Adolescent AODA Crisis Line: 608.280.2600
Alcoholics Anonymous: 608.222.8989 (24 hour)
Other:
NAMI- National Alliance on Mental Illness in Dane County
NAMI Support Groups
Alternative to Alcoholics Anonymous Resource in Madison, WI:
Information on Smart Recovery
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