Unfortunately, my links page is growing smaller,
as many of my favorite sites have, for whatever reason, ceased to
exist. If you have suggestions for links, feel free to email
me.
About
Panic Disorder
I find myself visiting this site more and more often to get information
on research and political issues on mental health reform that I
surprisingly don't find elsewhere.
I highly recommend this site to just about everyone, it covers every
topic surrounding anxiety, panic, depression, etc, has a forum, links
to sites, including blogs such as my own. Run by Cathleen Hemming as
part of the great about.com website this is a great place to start when
looking for information, and Cathleen also sends out email newsletters
that you can sing up for like I have that often have timely abstracts
of articles posted on the website.
The
Panic Life.
This is a blog, run by a young woman who has an anxiety disorder, and
like me, she posts how she struggles with it every day. She tells it
just like it is.
WebMD
With more than 15 million visitors every month, WebMD Health is the
leading consumer-focused healthcare information Web site. Our mission
is to be the most objective, credible and trusted source of consumer
healthcare information that helps people play an active role in
managing their own health. At WebMD Health, consumers can access health
and wellness news, support communities, interactive health management
tools and more. Our online communities and special events allow
consumers to participate in real-time discussions with experts and with
other people who share similar health conditions or concerns.
I read this site often to get accurate, general information on any
physical symptoms I experience, you may also want to check out their Mental Health Section
National
Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI)
The National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI) is a nonprofit,
grassroots, self-help, support and advocacy organization of consumers,
families, and friends of people with severe mental illnesses, such as schizophrenia,
major depression, bipolar disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and
anxiety disorders. At the heart of NAMI's mission is the sharing of
information with consumers (i.e., persons with mental illnesses), their
families, friends, mental health professionals, and the general public.
NAMI educates all people about severe and persistent mental illnesses
to eliminate stigma and promote access to integrated systems of care,
education, and rehabilitation. Research is constantly providing us with
new information about the brain and the nature of mental illnesses and,
consequently, more effective treatments.
I read this site often to learn about medications, especially this
page: Information on Illnesses and treatments
Internet
Mental Health
Internet Mental Health is a free encyclopedia of mental health
information created by a Canadian psychiatrist, Dr. Phillip Long. I
refer to this site often to read up on side-effects on medications, it
is very informative.
Codependents
Anonymous
Co-Dependents Anonymous is a fellowship of men and women whose
common purpose is to develop healthy relationships. The only
requirement for membership is a desire for healthy and fulfilling
relationships. We rely on the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions for
knowledge and wisdom. These are the principles of our program and
guides to developing honest and fulfilling relationships. Through
applying the Twelve Steps and principles in CoDA to our daily life and
relationships, both present and past, we can experience a new freedom
from our self-defeating lifestyles and realize a new joy, acceptance and
serenity in our lives.
Midwest
Center for Stress and Anxiety
The Midwest
Center for Stress
and Anxiety produces a good cassette tape program that has helped me
quite a bit in my struggle with panic attacks and has a good
accompanying workbook.
Attacking Anxiety will teach you how to control the symptoms, how to
prevent severe anxiety, how to stop negative worrisome thoughts, and
how to control your emotions. It will provide the resources for you to
become confident, assertive and independent.
The also have a very good forum that is pretty active on a daily
basis. The forum is located here: Stess Center Support Forum
Reading
your body.
When you're not feeling well, how do you determine what's wrong with
you? You probably go to a doctor, someone who is trained to read
bodies. However, many illnesses and conditions depend on your own
interpretation of your body.
The Meadows-
an inpatient recovery treatment center
I wanted to enroll in this program, I think it sounds very great but
the costs were too prohibitive, but I thought it was a good link anyway
because they seem to have the best in-patient treatment available.
The Meadows is a privately owned, freestanding facility located in
the foothills of the Great
Southwestern Desert. It offers treatment for
a broad range of behavioral disorders, psychological conditions and
addictions such as alcohol, drugs, sex and work. Additionally, many
other compulsive behaviors such as eating disorders, love addiction,
and codependency are addressed.
WebMD
Health and Nutrition
The WebMD Content Staff blends award-winning expertise in content
creation, community services, expert commentary, medical review, and
aggregation of licensed resources to give our site users a variety of
ways to find what they are looking for. And that, we believe, requires
dedicated, full-time staff professionals with state-of-the-art
expertise in: Health news for the public, Creating and maintaining
up-to-date medical reference content databases, Medical imagery,
graphics, and animation, Communities, Live Web events, User experience,
Interactive tools ,
Psychology and
mental health at Psych Central
Regularly maintained by John and an assistant, it is one of the
Net's best annotated guides to the most useful Websites, newsgroups,
and mailing lists online today in mental health, psychology, social
work, and psychiatry. It receives between three and four thousand
visitors per day and acts as a reliable and accurate source of mental
health information for the over twenty million visitors which have
stopped by since it was first introduced.
They also have a good forum.
One Step
At A Time
OneStepAtATime.com was founded by Psychologist, Gene Benedetto as a
web site that allowed him to stay in touch and offer maintenance
services to his clients he has seen in his private practice. Although
the site certainly met that need, he quickly found that
www.OneStepAtAtime.com was attracting members from around the world who
wanted and needed support that they were not receiving elsewhere. The
site was therefore expanded to offer more services to meet the needs of
those individuals suffering from low self esteem, panic attacks,
phobias, and obsessive-compulsive issues.
They also have a forum if you sign up for their membership, which is
free, unless you want more personalized one-on-one contact with a
therapist, which you have to pay for. I currently use the basic free
membership and it fits my needs.
Med Help
International - Mental Health Forum
Questions posted in this forum are being answered by Roger L. Gould,
M.D., author of the Mastering Stress and Depression program and
affiliated with the U.C.L.A. Department of Psychiatry
They have a pretty active forum that's worth checking out. I also
suggest looking at their page about relationship issues, The Signs
of a Troubled Relationship
The pattern is all too common. One moment your relationship is
riding a wave of warmth, love and intimacy. But the next moment
coldness, anger and blame creep in.
Depression
and Bipolar Support Alliance
The
Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance (DBSA) is the nation’s leading
patient-directed organization focusing on the most prevalent mental
illnesses – depression and bipolar disorder. The organization
fosters an understanding about the impact and management of these
life-threatening illnesses by providing up-to-date,
scientifically-based tools and information written in language the
general public can understand. DBSA supports research to promote more
timely diagnosis, develop more effective and tolerable treatments and
discover a cure. The organization works to ensure that people living
with mood disorders are treated equitably.
Go On And Live - help with relationships for depressed
people.
Relationships and Depression
- Defeating
isolation
- If someone
you love is depressed
Close relationships are an important and
wonderful part of the human experience. If you are experiencing
depression, nothing is more important than the support and encouragement
of your friends and family. Strong relationships are cemented by
unconditional love -- when you are depressed, you are every bit as
deserving of love as when you are well. Reconnecting with your loved
ones and beginning to spend quality time with them again is an
important and healthy step in reaching GOAL!
Suicide.Com
There is Hope
We are dedicating this site to provide resources in helping to share
hope with those who are hurting. Our primary goal is to share hope
through the stories of others who have been though hard times and
survived. We are also a resource for different sites with related
topics.
Suicide
Hotlines and Help
For when you feel you can't go on... some encouraging words and a
chance at making it through another day until you can get the help and
the courage you need.
Also look at Colorado Psycho's suicide prevention page
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