General
Mental Health Sites
PsychCentral
http://www.psychcentral.com
A privately funded and comprehensive resource, this site includes
links to dozens of disorder-specific sites as well as a suicide
helpline."The Internet's largest and oldest mental health
social network created and run by mental health professionals
to guarantee reliable, trusted information and support communities
to you, for over 12 years."
Internet
Mental Health http://www.mentalhealth.com/
A Canadian site that describes itself as a free encyclopedia of
mental health information. Extremely informative site offering
information on disorders, psychiatric medications, articles, and
many links.
Mental
Health Net http://mentalhelp.net/
A guide to mental health, psychology, and psychiatry resources
online. Sponsored by CMHC Systems. The Disorders and Treatments
- Main Index (http://mentalhelp.net/dxtx.htm) provides descriptions
or symptoms of many mental illnesses. Visit the American Self-Help
Group Clearinghouse's Self-Help
Group Sourcebook Online (http://mentalhelp.net/selfhelp/)
for information on community support groups.
National
Mental Health Consumers' Self-Help Clearinghouse http://www.mhselfhelp.org/
"The Clearinghouse is a consumer-run national technical assistance
center established in 1986 and funded in part by a federal grant
from the Center for Mental Health Services . We are committed
to helping mental health consumers improve their lives through
self-help and advocacy. Specifically, we help consumers plan,
provide, and evaluate mental health and community support services."
National
Association for Rights Protection and Advocacy http://www.narpa.org/
National Association for Rights Protection and Advocacy (NARPA)
is an independent organization, is a unique mix of people who
have survived psychiatric institutions, advocates, civil rights
activists, mental health workers, and lawyers. NARPA exists to
expose abuse, to shed light on coercive and dangerous practices,
and to promote real alternatives to a mental health system that
even professionals agree is a disgrace.
National
Resource Center on Psychiatric Advance Directives - Psychiatric
advance directives (PADs) are relatively new legal instruments
that may be used to document a competent person’s specific
instructions or preferences regarding future mental health treatment,
in preparation for the possibility that the person may lose capacity
to give or withhold informed consent to treatment during acute
episodes of psychiatric illness. Almost all states permit some
form of legal advance directive (AD) for healthcare, which can
be used to direct at least some forms of psychiatric treatment.
In the past decade, twenty-five states have adopted specific PAD
statutes. This site offers an introduction to PADs, state-by-state
information about advance directive laws, instructions and forms,
discussion forums, educational webcasts, current research, links
to other websites, and more! http://www.nrc-pad.org/
SupportPath.com
http://www.supportpath.com/
The support links section of this site includes an alphabetical
listing of physical and psychological disabilities, and different
online and offline resources. The site also includes chats, bulletin
boards and professional links.
Knowledge
Exchange Network (KEN) http://www.mentalhealth.org/
Operated by the Center for Mental Health Services this site offers
access to CMHS databases, consumer/survivor info, mental health
information, CMHS/KEN publications, and programs.
Salud
Mental http://www.mhnews-latino.org/
A bilingual and bicultural mental health education publication
from the publishers of Mental Health News.
The
Antipsychiatry Coalition http://www.antipsychiatry.org/
“The Antipsychiatry Coalition is a nonprofit volunteer group
consisting of people who feel we have been harmed by psychiatry
- and of our supporters.” Many links to resources and material
countering the claims of traditional psychiatry.
NOSTIGMA.ORG
http://www.nostigma.org/
The website of the National Mental Health Awareness Campaign.
Provides general information about mental illness, counters myths
about mental illness with facts. The "How to Get Help"
page (which one can access through a link on the homepage that
says "I Need Help Now!") gives contact information for
resources that can direct visitors to metal health services in
their community.
National
Alliance for the Mentally Ill http://www.nami.org/
This site is a comprehensive resource for clinicians and consumers
alike. It includes links to affiliates around the country, both
state and regional, as well as their Helpline Online and a lot
of information on mental illness in the press.
Beacon
of Hope http://www.lightship.org/
"A Place For Partners." This site is dedicated to men
and women who are partners of someone diagnosed with a severe
mental illness. Offers personal stories, coping tips, and resources.
Recovery
Resources Online http://soberrecovery.com/
Links to over 2000 recovery-oriented sites: emphasis on addictions,
but has many, many mental health sites as well as online support
forums.
Alternative
Mental Health Online http://www.alternativementalhealth.com/
Sponsored by the Safe-Harbor Project, this site describes itself
as "the first major Internet site dedicated to non-psychiatric
treatment of the mentally unwell".
National
Coalition of Mental Health Professionals & Consumers http://www.nomanagedcare.org
A national organization of professionals, consumers, and consumer
advocates, working to address the negative impact of managed care
on patients and professionals in mental health care.
Screening
for Mental Health http://www.mentalhealthscreening.org/index.htm
Screening for Mental Health, Inc. (formerly the National Mental
Illness Screening Project) is a nonprofit organization developed
to coordinate nationwide mental health screening programs and
to ensure cooperation, professionalism, and accountability in
mental illness screenings. Their website has information on screening
days and programs for alcohol, anxiety disorders, depression,
and eating disorders.
CenterWatch
Clinical Trials Listings Service http://www.centerwatch.com/main.htm
Designed to be a resource both for patients interested in participating
in clinical trials and for research professionals. This site posts
information related to clinical trials, such as a listing of more
than 41,000 industry- and government-sponsored clinical trials
as well as new drug therapies recently approved by the FDA.
Kristin
Brooks Hope Center http://www.hopeline.com/
The Kristin Brooks Hope Center is a non-profit
organization dedicated to suicide prevention, intervention and
healing by providing a single point of entry to community-based
crisis services. A call to their national toll-free number, 1-800-SUICIDE
(1-800-784-2433) links callers to their nearest certified crisis
center. The Hope Center also strives to bring national attention
and access to services for postpartum depression and other women's
mood disorders through education and advocacy; through formal
research and evaluation of crisis line services; and, by championing
the need for national funding for community-based suicide prevention
crisis services.
The
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline http://www.suicidepreventionlifeline.org/
The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline is a national, 24-hour,
and toll-free suicide prevention service available to all those
in suicidal crisis who are seeking help. Callers dialing 1-800-273-TALK
(8255) will be routed to the closest possible provider of mental
health and suicide prevention services. The network is comprised
of over 100 individual crisis centers across the country. It is
administered through the Mental Health Association of New York
City, and is one component of the National Suicide Prevention
Initiative (NSPI), a multiproject effort to reduce suicide funded
by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s
Center for Mental Health Services.
