It can be tough living with a mental health challenge, such as a mental illness, or thoughts of suicide. It’s also a challenge to know how to offer good support to someone who is. This blog is here to help guide you. It contains articles and videos to educate. We look at how to improve mental health. We also look at how to offer good support to those living with a mental illness or thoughts of suicide. Lastly, we’ll let you know about upcoming events and workshops that are relevant to mental well-being and suicide prevention.

CMHA provides advocacy, programs and resources that help to prevent mental health problems and illnesses, support recovery and resilience, and enable all Canadians to flourish and thrive.

We envision a future where motion picture industry workers come together as a Community of Care to help those with mental illness and substance abuse issues; a culture where everyone feels safe at work; and supported and empowered to ask for and offer help; where union staff and department managers and supervisors have access to training and resources to adequately address issues as they arise; and where impairment at work is seen as an occupational health and safety issue and is neither accepted nor condoned.

Anxiety Canada™ is a leader in developing free online, self-help, and evidence-based resources on anxiety and its blog.

Psych Central is the Internet's leading independent mental health publisher. Psych Central provides reliable, independent, unbiased mental health information to help reduce stigma and promote acceptance of mental disorders. In addition to this, it also has over 250 support groups and thousands of indexed resources.

Happiful is the UK's only monthly lifestyle magazine devoted to mental health. Happiful is a mental health and wellbeing magazine on a mission to create a healthier and happier society through inspiring life stories and positive news.

Mental Health Australia is the peak, national non-government organization representing and promoting the interests of the Australian mental health sector, committed to achieving better mental health for all Australians.

The Trauma and Mental Health Report is a weekly online magazine on trauma and mental health, published out of York University in Toronto, Canada. It covers topics like the causes and consequences of trauma; treatment, prevention, and implications of trauma and other mental illnesses for society at large.

A therapist reflects on her time with patients, and her time as a patient. Gerri Luce is a licensed clinical social worker who publishes under a pseudonym. She is 50 years old and spent her late twenties and thirties battling anorexia, major depression, and borderline personality disorder. Her essays have appeared in a number of literary journals and anthologies.

On this page you will find articles, free audio and video, and other resources that may give you tips on working toward healing and growth. Whether you struggle with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, or addictive behaviors, no matter the struggles you come here with, this is a place for you to get some tips to support you.

Blog authors Chuck and Zoe created Defying Mental Illness to offer their insights on mental and emotional health. Chuck, who suffers from schizophrenia, shares his experience as someone who has been challenged by mental illness and had to overcome its difficulties. They hope to help those contending with mental illness on their path to recovery and well-being.

My Brain's Not Broken is a blog about living with mental illness and promoting mental wellness written by Nathan Smith. His blog shares tips and advice on how to create a mentally healthy lifestyle while sharing his journey of living with depression and anxiety.

Therapists, advice columnists, and authors Lori Gottlieb, LMFT, and Guy Winch, Ph.D., come together in this ultimate fly-on-the-wall therapy podcast. In each episode, Gottlieb and Dr. Winch guide a guest through a personal challenge, providing insight and actionable advice. It’s a mix of Gottlieb and Dr. Winch talking directly with the guest and conferring with each other behind the scenes, which allows them to go more in depth than they would in a typical therapy session. After, they bring their guests back to discuss how they applied the guidance to their life (and how it went).

Shameless plug, but did you know that SELF has a podcast? We do! Our editor in chief, Carolyn Kylstra, talks to experts, thought leaders, celebrities, and real people to help answer listener questions. While the podcast touches on all things health and wellness, mental health pops up a lot (because, really, doesn't mental health intersect with most aspects of our life?).

It’s no secret that “How are you?” is an easy question to answer with a lie. But the host of Terrible, Thanks for Asking, Nora McInerny, wants the real answers. She asks real people to share how they’re really doing, and the result is a great blend of sad and funny—especially right now when more people than ever are doing...well, terrible.

Whether you're occasionally anxious or live with an anxiety disorder, there's something for you in this helpful podcast. Host and registered nurse Kelli Walker talks with guests about what anxiety is, why it happens, and, most important, how to deal, from specific anxiety-busting tips to broader self-care practices.

This franchise started with a book by Dan Harris, a self-described meditation skeptic turned believer, and has since spun off into a meditation app and this podcast—all designed to help out people who also have their doubts about things like meditation. The show isn’t all about meditation, though. It touches on a wide range of mental health topics, like social anxiety, compassion, productivity, relationships, and happiness, with the help of leading researchers.

You’ve probably heard that gratitude can be transformational for your mental health, but what does that actually look like in practice? In this podcast, author and editor in chief of Parade Janice Kaplan explores all things gratitude. She covers a wide range of topics through the lens of gratitude, from family and relationships to money and ambition.

Calling pop culture nerds who love to talk about mental health representation in the media: You need to listen to Mad Chat. On each episode, host Sandy Allen and a guest analyze a beloved piece of media through the lens of mental health, including BoJack Horseman, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Killing Eve, Frasier, and more.

No list of mental health podcasts is complete without a shoutout to this fan favorite. With more than 500 episodes, The Mental Illness Happy Hour delivers weekly conversations with comedians, artists, friends of the host, and doctors about all things mental illness, trauma, addiction, and more.

Brené Brown, Ph.D., launched this podcast right at the end of March of last year—meaning, right at the beginning of the pandemic, when many of us needed help dealing with an onslaught of uncomfortable emotions. At its heart, the podcast is about connection and all the messy emotions and experiences that make us human, covering anything from using joy as an act of resistance to dealing with shame while holding yourself accountable. The guest lineup is no joke, either. So far Dr. Brown has spoken to fascinating mental health researchers as well as public figures like Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Dolly Parton, Laverne Cox, Reese Witherspoon, Kerry Washington, and more.

The guests on John Moe's show often tell stories for a living as entertainers, and here, they recount their clinical depression experiences with the same shot of humor and searing honesty that's helped get them through the pain. Though producer APM crushed fans by ending the pod mid-2020, there are 96 episodes to binge—and a companion book by the same name.

Yale professor Dr. Laurie Santos's online The Science of Well-Being class is so wildly popular, the O, the Oprah Magazine staff even took the course. Her The Happiness Lab pod offers more research-based tips on cultivating good happiness habits. It also features stories of people who are finding a path to their own joy; episodes include "The Power of a Made-Up Ritual," "Dial D for Distracted," and "How to Kick Bad Habits (and Start Good Ones).

Bobby Temps is a British podcaster, mental health advocate, and model who aims to destigmatize anxiety and depression by holding space for guests' honest accounts of their own mental health journeys. Temps also welcomes a roster of experts to share advice, and as a host, his soothing cadence could itself be considered therapeutic.

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This documentary highlights the struggles and successes of several people who are living with bipolar disorder. For psychology students, the documentary is especially valuable because of the way it puts a human face on a common but perplexing mental illness. Seeing personal accounts puts a clearer light on the illness to help viewers better understand what they read in books about it. Through several interviews, the documentary shows how bipolar disorder affects people with feelings ranging from grandiosity and euphoria to pain and despair. It also shows how they see different aspects of life based on their extreme feelings.

One of the complexities psychologists will encounter is multiple mental disorders. This documentary provides a good example of how a person can have multiple disorders and how the aspects of each disorder mixed with the other and interferes with a victim’s life. OC87 is a documentary about Bud Clayman and how mental illness kept him from pursuing his dreams of being a filmmaker immediately after college. The story is inspiring and shows how people can still use their strengths to work toward their goals.One of the complexities psychologists will encounter is multiple mental disorders. This documentary provides a good example of how a person can have multiple disorders and how the aspects of each disorder mixes with the other and interferes with a victim’s life. OC87 is a documentary about Bud Clayman and how mental illness kept him from pursuing his dreams of being a filmmaker immediately after college. The story is inspiring and shows how people can still use their strengths to work toward their goals.

With its information about how to treat borderline personality disorder, this documentary gives a broad view of BPD. Since it is fairly new among psychiatric illness diagnoses, anyone who is planning to become a psychologist can benefit from seeing how the symptoms affect people and their families. Psychosis, mood swings, relationship problems, poor emotion management and impulsive behavior are just a few of the effects they live with. The documentary also shows how BPD occurs simultaneously with other mental disorders such as bipolar disorder, depression and substance abuse.

In this documentary, the viewer gets to play the role of the psychologist. The documentary is set up as a project where 10 volunteers are asked to complete a series of challenges ranging from light and fun to heavy and revolting. However, half of the participants do not have a mental illness. The other five have a diagnosed mental illness. As viewers watch the participants execute the challenges, they must decide who the ones with illnesses are. This is a great practice exercise for psychology students to pay attention closely and look for signs of mental illnesses in the participants.

Depression is one of the most common mental illnesses, and it can afflict anyone. This documentary shows the effects of it and the struggles it causes for several different people. See depression from the view of a former gang member, a young mother, a teen, a powerful CEO, a writer and a young person trying to escape an inner-city lifestyle in this informative documentary. The documentary is eye-opening for any psychology student or psychologist.