Resources for Understanding Mental Illness

Mental Illness Basics

• Words Matter: A Guide for How to Speak to Someone with Mental Illness

• What is Mental Health?

• Factors That Affect Mental Health

• Guide for Caregivers

• Warning Signs and Symptoms

• Mental Health Statistics

• Youth and Mental Health

• Mental Health College Guide

• Navigating a Mental Health Crisis

ADHD
Anxiety
Bipolar
Childhood Trauma
Depression

Dissociative disorders
Eating disorders
Hoarding
Obsessive-compulsive
Psychosis

Personality disorder
Posttraumatic stress
Schizophrenia
Schizoaffective

ADHD

• Quick Facts

• Information for Teenagers

• Life of a Teenager with ADHD

• Help for adolescents

• Recognizing ADHD in adults

• Failing at Normal: an ADHD
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Anxiety Disorders

• What are anxiety disorders?

• Generalized anxiety disorder

• Phobias

• Social anxiety disorder and children

• Panic attacks

• Agoraphobia

• Separation anxiety disorder

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Bipolar

• What is Bipolar disorder

• Bipolar disorder in Children and Teens

• Healthy Living with Bipolar Disorder

• My Life with Bipolar (video)

• Ride the Tiger/Mania and Depression

• Ride the Tiger/Mania and Finances

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Childhood Trauma

• What is trauma?

• Understanding Childhood Adversity

• Trauma that Children May Experience

• Trauma and Child Abuse

• Parenting Kids Who Have Experienced Trauma

• The Three-Rs of Resilience

• Information to Share with Child's Doctor

• Parenting After Trauma
  

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Depression

• What is depression?

• Things Not to Say to Someone with Depression

• A Guide for Helping Someone with Depression

• Women and depression

• Men and depression

• Children and depression

• Teenagers and depression

• Depression and seniors

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Dissociative Disorders

• What is dissociative identity disorder?

• Myths and Misconceptions About DID

• Living with a Dissociative Disorder

• Understanding DID

• Six Personalities

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Eating Disorders

• A Guide for Understanding Eating Disorders and Helping Someone Experiencing It

• Things Not to Say to Someone with an Eating Disorder (video)

• Let Her Eat Cake (a short film)

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Hoarding Disorder

• What is hoarding disorder?

• Factsheet

• Misconceptions about hoarding disorder

• Hoarding scale

• Humanizing Hoarding

• Hoarding as a Mental Health Issue

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Obsessive Compulsive Disorders

• What is OCD?

• Debunking the Myths of OCD

• What's it like to live with OCD?

• Common Myths About OCD

• Children and Teenagers

• Body Dysmorphic Disorder

• Unstuck movie clip

• Unstuck website

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Psychosis

• What is Psychosis? (video)

• What to Do When Someone Close is in Psychosis

• A Guide for Understanding Psychosis

• How Psychosis Bends Your Reality

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Personality Disorder

• What are Personality Disorders?

• The 10 Personality Disorders

• Personality Disorder chart

• Paranoid Personality Disorder

• Antisocial Personality Disorder

• Narcissistic Personality Disorder

• Borderline Personality Disorder

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Post-traumatic Stress

• What is post-traumatic stress disorder?

• How I Knew I Had PTSD

• PTSD Topics

• 5 Common Myths About PTSD

• Children and PTSD

• Helping Children Cope with Traumatic Events

• Women and PTSD

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Schizophrenia

• Understanding schizophrenia

• Sitting with Persons Who Hear Voices

• Things Not to Say to Someone with Schizophrenia

• The Voices in My Head

• I'm Not a Monster

• Schizophrenia and Psychosis Lexicon
  Guide

• Schizophrenia & Psychosis Alliance

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Schizoaffective Disorder

• What is schizoaffective disorder?

• What is the difference between
  schizoaffective and schizophrenia?

• What is it like to hear voices?

• Hallucinations

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