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Found this site to be very cold to others & extremely clicky.

www.psychcafe.ca

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Great info

I find that site cold and unfeeling too Patagonia.

www.hopetocope.com It's the website for Esperanza Magazine which is a magazine for depression & anxiety. I found it in my therapist's office yesterday & found it to be very helpful & informative. They're on Facebook too.

I found another good forum where you can live chat or have a 1 2 1 with a listener if yiu just need to chat..... 7 cups of tea...its an android app.... i hope it helps........

Hotlines:

Suicide-
Suicide Hotline
1-800-SUICIDE

National Suicide Prevention Helpline
1-800-273-TALK

National Adolescent Suicide Hotline
1-800-621-4000

Depression-
Postpartum Depression
1-800-PPD-MOMS

Veterans
1-877-VET2VET

Crisis Call Center
800-273-8255 or text ANSWER to 839863

Depression and Bipolar Support
800-273-TALK (8255)

Websites (a ton here)-
https://www.google.com/search?client...UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

Smartphone Apps-
Help Prevent Suicide

Lifebouy

Hope these help

Great resources! We can never have too many.

I wanted to add some for folks in Georgia, specifically in the Columbus/Phenix City metro area:

Georgia Crisis & Access Line - 1-800-715-4225 or mygcal.com
NAMI Georgia - namiga.org
NAMI Columbus - namicols.org or facebook.com/nami.columbus or 706-320-3755

Hope this helps

In-Touch Crisis Hotline
Based in Chicago but has callers from all over the US

Hours of Operation:
Sunday-Friday 6:00pm - 10:30pm
Phone Number:
(312)-996-5535

The InTouch Hotline is a free telephone crisis intervention, counseling, and referral service offered to UIC students and members of the greater Chicagoland area. The Hotline is staffed by volunteers trained through the UIC Paraprofessional Program. Calls placed to the Hotline remain confidential and are treated in an objective, non-judgmental fashion. Hotline volunteers are trained to discuss a wide range of problems including, but limited to:
crisis situations anxiety and panic conflict resolution
relationship issues difficult decisions isolation
stress depression sexuality issues
loneliness family concerns referrals
Individuals are encouraged to call and explore any important issue or concern they may be facing.

Claire Weekes on you tube and her books .

1) The Power of Awareness online mindfulness course through SoundsTrue.com
2) MrsMindfulness.com
3) Tinybuddha.com

These are great resources.

I have found the depressionforums.org helpful. Not sure if it has been previously mentioned so forgive me if this is a duplicate.

I found this self-care printable For When You're Actually NOT Okay: A Self-Care Printable

I learned a lot about depression in this book that I'm half way through. The author explains his experience w/ depression and discusses his research he has done about others' stories, treatments, etc and the book is even entertaining at times... The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression by Andrew Solomon. I don't particularly like to read but I and am enjoying this book.

I've been seeing the psychiatrist more than usual lately. He had prescribed Seroqul 300mg at night for sleeping and I took it for 5 months. I then had to get my A1C test for diabetes and my sugar was 515 and stayed near that level until just 2 weeks ago.9.0 and triglycerides were 3,075!! The last time I had an A1C test, six months earlier, I had my sugar was 5.1 My average was 81 and my cholesterol/trygilercides were 216, which I take a statin to treat. My PCP went crazy. She was beside herself because we had no explanation for such high results in such a short time.

I did a lot of research on-line, determined that it was the Seroquel and talked to my PCP and she didn't want to switch it; she wanted the psychiatrist to do it. He didn't believe the Seroquel was the cause, so he had me wait and test again the next month. During that month, he still had me taking it. PCP had given me more meds for sugar Glipizid5mg. Once that test was taken, the sugar was some better. I'm still on the Glipizide, now 10 mg twice a day but the fatty blood hadn't changed much. She doubled the medicine, called Gemfibrozil 600mg, twice a day. She will test me again in May. Already, though, I have been eating like I have since I was diagnosed with diabetes, and I'm on my back. My daily average is 140. I am eating very few animal products, hoping that will help lower the cholesterol and I'm walking a little. I have an appointment next Wednesday to join a gym. I am physically disabled as well, so I can't walk far but on a treadmill, I can set the pace, and if I need to take a break, I will and not feel self-conscious. I'm trying to save my life. What I mean, is that I want to improve the life I have, to be as on-track as I can. There are many things I cannot control. But my eating and my exercise, I can. My depression worsened with all of these emergency results due to the Seroquel (PCP had to have me transported once to the ER to stabilize my sugar). By the way, psychiatrist changed my medicine to Doxe-Pin100mg. I just started that last night. It worked. Sorry for the longest email ever.

I don't get therapy at the community mental health center anymore as my insurance doesn't cover any of it and they are short-staffed anyway. That's why I feel blessed to have found PsychCentral. I told the psychiatrist yesterday that I come here every day, do the mood tracker and have "friends" that I correspond with and I read many of the articles, regularly. I go to what used to be called "Beyond Project Blue" and that was extremely helpful. Therese who writes for it really helped me. I've never seen it addressed before, but I, too, was an unloved daughter and an unwanted daughter by both my parents. The violence and abuse, the rape and the poverty, have me all screwed up but Theresa understands. No one ever has. I'm so grateful for her. Anyway, the psychiatrist was pleased that I come here. He said he views it as another form of group therapy and is very helpful, I was very surprised but so proud for the praise. So thank you, Doc, for providing this forum for all of us who for years, just sat in the darkness, with no one, and now we can communicate, share and encourage those, like us, who need it. Thank you with all my heart. I don't know of any other on-line support groups for depression as I haven't sought them out.
Teresa Morris

I downloaded an app on my phone called Pocket CBT. It's Cognitive Behavior Therapy. It's commonly used to treat depression and anxiety disorders.

I absolutely love it.

I don't normally listen to a lot of podcasts, but a close mentor of mine told me about this one so I gave it a try. I listened to it and it kind of helped. If anyone chooses to listen to it or has listened to it before, I'd love to here your thoughts.

Jennifer Michael Hecht ? Suicide, and Hope for Our Future Selves | On Being

Does depression makes our body veins weak ??

Learning more about chakra balancing and doing some root chakra healing videos on youtube has helped some.

headspace.org.au and
youthbeyondblue.com
are both good for aussie youth users, they provide online counselling that doesn't require parental consent


hope these are useful for someone

Helpguide org is very informative:
HelpGuide.org - Trusted guide to mental, emotional & social health

About depression:
Depression - Helpguide.org

About bipolar:
Bipolar Disorder - Helpguide.org

I recently found this site and plan to do some reading there:

I recently hired a fantastic woman who has changed my life.

I had gone to my regular doctor complaining of increasing depression and she gave me a list of therapists and said "you really need a life coach but insurance won't cover that". She gave me medication and the referrals but I think she meant that I needed practical help as well ex finding a job.

I remembered that I had hired someone to complete my daughters college applications and help with essays so I asked her to help with practical matters like writing a resume, making phone calls, clearing my desk etc. I guess you could call it OT? Anyway so far she has helped me decide on a career and comes to the house and makes sure I do whatever I need at that time. Up until now I've relied on my kid but that isn't really fair to her.

Anyway I won't post the name here I guess. I don't know if this an appropriate place to mention all this but if anyone wants the name or has thoughts on this concept please let me know.

“Practice makes neurons! Mind exercises will form new get-out-depression neural patterns that can be used in place of the old depression neural patterns.”
~ A. B. Curtiss

Depression_Is_a_Choice review @goodreads.com

Review - Depression Is a Choice @metapsychology
(I haven't read her counter arguments yet. )

abcurtiss.com/quotes.html

I'm recommending you to check her out. I'd say she's illegally good or something, my common sense in addition to my mental sense are rejoicing, my bet is that her editor couldn't handle her, the point of her self is not how right her claims are, but rather how one should seek one's own design, and build it from ground up with big purpose. I haven't read the book by the way, she sounds like much better person than Virginia Woolf whom I was reading earlier about.

Anyway: The Paradoxical Commandments: Finding Personal Meaning in a Crazy World.

Channel your inner bipolar!

I listened to this yesterday and finished today. I thought it was very good. Very good.

If anyone is from the UK. There is mind, Sane, samaritans. I also like blurt, they give advice and hand out buddy boxes to those who need cheering up.

https://www.time-to-change.org.uk/wh...-organisations

https://www.blurtitout.org/resources/