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Guides
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Recovering Your Mental Health
This SAMHSA guide provides information on recovering from mental health issues.
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The Family and Friends' Guide to Recovery From Depression and Bipolar Disorder
This guide, provided by the Depression and Bipolar Alliance, provides ways you can help friends or family members throughout their recovery while empowering them to make their own choices.
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Family Recovery and Resiliency Tools
There are many things you can do to support your loved one and maintain your well-being. You can explore these tools and see what works best for you in your journey to well-being.
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Whole Health Tracker - Part 2 (additional weeks)
This is the second part of the Whole Health Tracker PDF. This document only offers the pages for weeks 2-8 for journaling.
Articles
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About Behavioral Health Care
Behavioral health care focuses on an individual's psychological wellness. It is occasionally referred to as mental health care.
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The Importance of Mental Health
Mental health includes our emotional, psychological, and social wellbeing.
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Depression
Learn the basics about the causes, symptoms and common treatments for depression.
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Understanding Self-Harm
Learn what self-harm is, and why people do it. Know the signs to look for and actions to take if someone you care about is self-harming.
Find self-help resources
Courses
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QPR Suicide Prevention Training
This education program uses the "Question, Persuade, Refer" (QPR) model to reduce suicide risk. This may help you save a life by learning suicide warning signs, how to talk with someone at risk and where to seek help. It's important to take precautions and not ignore talk of suicide or hopelessness. Learn more about suicide prevention and coping as a suicide survivor.
Resources
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Warmlines for Mental Health Support
A warmline is a peer-run listening line staffed by people in recovery themselves. Because there is no single comprehensive source for all warmlines in the country, the best way to find a local warmline is to use your browser and search for “warmline” and the name of your state.
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Support Programs - National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI)
A list of resource links and NAMI programs for consumers and their families.
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National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
Working to improve mental health through biomedical research on mind, brain, and behavior.
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Depression
This link provides resources and information on depression. MedlinePlus is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine and the National Institute of Health.
Videos
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Panic Disorder
Don’t let panic attacks take over your life. Here’s how one sufferer tackled hers.
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Concentration Problems
An inability to focus can be a sign of ADD, depression, or sleep issues. Get help staying on task.
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Guilt or Self Blame
Learn how therapy can help you learn to let go of guilt and shame.
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Anhedonia
If you’ve stopped enjoying what you used to enjoy, there is hope. Here’s how one person got her joy back.
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