Self-Help

Be aware of mental-health chat-rooms. They can be long on sympathy and short on knowledge. Online health sites, a worldwide worry!

These web sites offer information on psychological and health issues:

• http://ccvillage.buffalo.edu/vpc.html

• Student Counseling Virtual Pamphlet Collection, prepared by the University of Chicago Student Counseling and Resource Service, is an interesting self-help guide online.

• www.NAMI.org, the website of the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill, is one of several good online source of information.

• http://www.campusblues.com dedicated to helping students finding a sense of well-being.

Self-Screening Tests:

• The Online Adult ADHD Screening Test (WHO)

• The Online Anxiety Screening Test (NYU)

• The Online Depression Screening Test (NYU)

• The Online Sexual Disorders Screening Test for Women (NYU)

• The Online Sexual Disorders Screening Test for Men (NYU)

• The Online Personality Disorders Screening Test (NYU)

Guidelines:

• If you or someone you know is contemplating suicide, help can be found at these organizations:

  1. Suicide Prevention NIMH: http://www.nimh.nih.gov/publicat/depsuicidemenu.cfm

  2.  The National Suicide Prevention Resource Center: www.suicidepreventionlifeline.org

  3.  Suicide Awareness Voices of Education: www.save.org

  4.  National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 1-800-273-TALK

• Adult ADD: Adult ADD: http://amenclinic.com/ac/tests/add_test1.php

• Stalking:

  Handbook for victims

          http://www2.uta.edu/ssw/spencediehl/documents/stalkinghandbook.pdf;

          http://www.humec.cornell.edu/stalking/index.htm 

• Depression: http://www.nimh.nih.gov/publicat/depression.cfm; Depression

• Bipolar disorder: http://www.nimh.nih.gov/publicat/bipolarmenu.cfm

• About boundaries within a relationship

• Sexual abuse: Rape/date, rape

• Self injury

• Anxiety: http://denverpost.healthology.com/webcast_transcript.asp?

  • b=denverpost&f=sleep_disorders&c=sleep_anxiety&spg=ART

• Sleep disorders: http://denverpost.healthology.com/diduknow.asp?                        b=denverpost&f=sleep_disorders&c=less_sleep&spg=SCH   

• Recognizing Mental Illness in Young adults: http://denverpost.healthology.com/focus_article.asp?b=denverpost&f=mentalhealth&c=mental_youngadults&spg=SCH

Last updated May, 2012