Mental Health & Health Links

Here you can find the links to my favorite sites and sites I find helpful. Hope you like them and/or find them helpful. If any don't work please let me know

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Helpful Sites

Suicide Prevention

If you need to talk to someone or are in crisis, this is a great site. Here you can find the number to a crisis line local to you. It's organized by state: http://www.suicidehotlines.com/

American Foundation For Suicide Prevention -- http://www.afsp.org

National Organization for People of Color Against Suicide -- http://www.nopcas.org

The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline -- http://www.suicidepreventionhotline.org

General Mental Health

American College Counseling Association -- http://www.collegecounceling.org

National Alliance for Mental Illness (NAMI) -- http://www.nami.org

National Asian American Pacific Islander Mental Health Association -- http://www.naapimha.org

National Latino Behavioral Health Association -- http://www.nlbha.org

Teens Health -- http://www.kidshealth.org/teen/your_mind/mental_health/cutting.html

National Panhellenic Conference -- http://www.npcwomen.org

Screening For Mental Health -- http://www.mentalhealthscreening.org

DBT

Great place to start the search for information on DBT: http://www.palace.net/~llama/psych/dbt.html

A great DBT site. This link takes you to their tools for consumers page: http://behavioraltech.org/consumers/

Self-Injury

LifeSIGNS - Self-Injury Guidance & Network Support -- www.lifesigns.org.uk

Mayo Clinic -- http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/self-injury/DS00775/DSECTION=4

Recover Your Life (a.k.a RYL), a great site full of information and help regarding self-injury: http://www.recoveryourlife.com/default.aspx

Self Abuse Finally Ends (SAFE) -- http://www.selfinjury.com

Self Injury And Related Issues (SIARI) -- http://www.siari.co.uk

Self-injury: You are NOT the only one-- http://crystal.palace.net/~llama/psych/injury.html

BPD

Treatment And Research Advancements National Association For Personality Disorders (TARA) -- http://www.tara4bpd.org

National Institute for Mental Health (direct to diagnosis): http://www.nimh.nih.gov/publicat/bpd.cfm

Borderline Personality Sanctuary: http://www.mhsanctuary.com/borderline/

BPD411: http://www.bpd411.com

BPD Central: http://www.bpdcentral.com/

PTSD

The National Center for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder site: http://www.ncptsd.org/

National Institute for Mental Health (direct to diagnosis): http://www.nimh.nih.gov/publicat/ptsdfacts.cfm

T.A.R.G.E.T. Model: http://www.ptsdfreedom.org/

Bipolar

National Institute for Mental Health (direct to diagnosis): http://www.nimh.nih.gov/publicat/manic.cfm

Medical

Pain Support Group -- Great group for those of us in pain. Me it's my headaches. http://groups.msn.com/PainSupportGroup

This is a great start for information on Migraines: http://www.mayoclinic.org/migraine-rst/

National Headache Foundation: http://www.headaches.org/

Living With Chronic Migraines: http://groups.msn.com/LIVINGWITHCHRONICMIGRAINES/_whatsnew.msnw

Miscellaneous

This is one of my good friend's sites. Man is she a good singer: http://www.kathrynjean.com

Some good psychiatric humor here. It's great for a pick me up when in a down mood: http://www.fortunecity.com/campus/psychology/781/psycholo.htm