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i believe you | it's not your fault
Supportive tumblr platform where people share stories of their experiences and find courage, hope and that they are not alone.
http://ibelieveyouitsnotyourfault.tumblr.com/Domestic Violence Awareness Guide
https://www.wristband.com/content/domestic-violence-awarenessTeens and Domestic Violence
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“The School of Life: On Anger” - VIDEO
"An open-minded, rigorous, un-ideological organization devoted to helping you deal with the important things that you were never taught in school: relationships, careers, anxieties and emotions....We believe in developing emotional intelligence."
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“School of Life: On Anxiety” - VIDEO
The School of Life: "An open-minded, rigorous, un-ideological organization devoted to helping you deal with the important things that you were never taught in school: relationships, careers, anxieties and emotions....We believe in developing emotional intelligence."
The Experience of PTSD, an Interactive Text
"One of the most prominent and critically acclaimed Twine games has been Howling Dogs, a haunting meditation about trauma and escapism produced in 2012 by a woman named Porpentine .... "When you have trauma, Porpentine says, "everything shrinks to this little dark room." While the immersive glow of a digital screen can offer a temporary balm, "you can't stay stuck on the things that help you deal with trauma when it's happening. You have to move on. You have to leave the dark room, or you'll stay stunted."
— excerpt from The New York Times Magazine, November 23, 2014, p46.(Important: This game is not therapy. It may be triggering, and should not be played by someone who is currently acutely depressed or anxious.)
The Experience of Trauma, an Interactive Text
This interactive text, written by Lydia Neon, asks readers to describe a painful, unresolved experience in his/her own life and tries to provide a form of catharsis uniquely tailored to one's own experiences. The interactive text will ask you to enter the name of the person who caused the unresolved experience, "because that's the real second player in the game: the person who hurt you." The game encourages you to understand that this other person is just Player 2 now, and "you have the controller, not them."
— excerpt from The New York Times Magazine, November 23, 2014, p48.(Important: This game is not therapy. It may be triggering, and should not be played by someone who is currently acutely depressed or anxious.)
Victim-Blaming, an Interactive Text
This interactive text, written by Porpentine, explores the demoralizing experience of having been a victim of abuse/rape/assault in a culture that systematically blames the victim. The first screen is randomized.
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A comprehensive online guide for people seeking employment.
The VA’s official guide to assist employers, managers and supervisors, human resource professionals, and employee assistance program (EAP)providers relate to and support their employees who are Veterans and members of the Reserve and National Guard.
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Love Is Respect
Information, Resources, Online Quizzes to foster thinking about boundaries and healthy relationships. It’s aimed at teens, but adults wanting to understand the nature of abusive relationships will find it informative as well.A .pdf file on co-dependency from Mental Health America.
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“School of Life: On Grief” - VIDEO
"An open-minded, rigorous, un-ideological organization devoted to helping you deal with the important things that you were never taught in school: relationships, careers, anxieties and emotions....We believe in developing emotional intelligence."
24/7 grief support for families of homicide, suicide, overdose, or accidental death.
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“School of Life: On Guilt & Shame” - VIDEO
"An open-minded, rigorous, un-ideological organization devoted to helping you deal with the important things that you were never taught in school: relationships, careers, anxieties and emotions....We believe in developing emotional intelligence."
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Agate Housing and Services & St. Stephens
Ending homelesness
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Benzodiazepines: How They Work And How to Withdraw (AKA The Ashton Manual)
Information regarding the protocol for the treatment of benzodiazepine withdrawal published by The Institute of Neuroscience at Newcastle University.
GoodRx
GoodRx gathers current prices and discounts to help you find the lowest cost pharmacy for your prescriptions. GoodRx is 100% free. No personal information required.The Withdrawal Project
This growing “layperson withdrawal community” has become a vital, valuable “living library” of wisdom regarding some of the most responsible, risk-reducing ways of tapering off and healing from the effects of psychiatric drugs. -
Insight Timer
Home to more than 3,000,000 meditators, Insight Timer is rated as the top free meditation app on the Android and iOS stores.
Headspace
Mindfulness Meditation with the low barrier to entry offered by a phone app.
Calm
Meditation to Relax, Sleep, Relieve Anxiety and Lower Stress
WeCroak
Find happiness by contemplating your mortality with the WeCroak app. Each day, we’ll send you five invitations at randomized times to stop and think about death. It’s based on a Bhutanese folk saying that to be a happy person one must contemplate death five times daily.“WeCroak is the anti-app. Social-media platforms seduce by providing a distraction from the tedium of everyday life—the awkward silences, boring waits in line, and unpleasant thoughts, chief among them the fact that we, and everyone we love, will kick the bucket. WeCroak makes escapism feel futile: We’re all going to die. The phone buzzes for thee.” —Bianca Bosker
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An Instagram account with information supporting fostering the emotion of gratitude. Fostering gratitude is a skill that can be practiced and learned. And the feeling of gratitude is a direct antidote to depression.
Now, some depressions feel too overwhelming to imagine finding relief in a practice like this. That's okay. If that's the case for you, you'll know you're moving in the right direction when, one day, a site like Wonderstanding or reading Rumi begins to feel hopeful.
“School of Life: On Feeling Depressed” - VIDEO
"An open-minded, rigorous, un-ideological organization devoted to helping you deal with the important things that you were never taught in school: relationships, careers, anxieties and emotions....We believe in developing emotional intelligence."
“Loneliness: Human Nature and the Need for Social Connection” - VIDEOThe Experience of Depression, an Interactive Text
Depression Quest is an interactive fiction game where you play as someone living with depression… This game aims to show other sufferers of depression that they are not alone in their feelings, and to illustrate to people who may not understand the illness the depths of what it can do to people.
(Important: This game is not therapy. It may be triggering, and should not be played by someone who is currently acutely depressed or anxious.)A program aimed to encourage a gameful way of living that increases resilience the ability to stay strong, motivated and optimistic even in the face of difficult obstacles.
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“School of Life: On Perfectionism” - VIDEO
"An open-minded, rigorous, un-ideological organization devoted to helping you deal with the important things that you were never taught in school: relationships, careers, anxieties and emotions....We believe in developing emotional intelligence."
“School of Life: Why You Don't Need to Be Exceptional” - VIDEO
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How to Spot an Emotional Grown-Up
By Robin Berman, MD, and Sonya Rasminsky, MDThe Legacy of a Narcissistic Parent
By Robin Berman, MDWhen It’s All About Them: Being Involved With a Narcissist
By Robin Berman, MD20 Diversion Tactics Highly Manipulative Narcissists, Sociopaths And Psychopaths Use To Silence You
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“School of Life: On Relationships” - VIDEO
"An open-minded, rigorous, un-ideological organization devoted to helping you deal with the important things that you were never taught in school: relationships, careers, anxieties and emotions....We believe in developing emotional intelligence."
“The School of Life: On Being Angry with a Parent” - VIDEO
”One of the more shocking and difficult emotions one may feel towards one’s parents is anger. … Might there be a way of clearing the atmosphere? … [M]ight we not – for once – try to speak the awkward truth to them?”“The School of Life: On What to Say in Response to an Affair” - ARTICLE
”Seldom do people feel as certain that they know what’s going on in another’s head as when they discover that their partner has had an affair. ... What torments the betrayed partner is not so much what happened as what they think it means. The priority is to put forward a different perspective.”“The School of Life: On How to Talk About Your Sexual Fantasy” - ARTICLE
“There’s something you are longing to try or a fantasy that grips your imagination….[How does one] shift matters from a demand to a pressure-free, playful intellectual exploration?”Take this free quiz to learn more about what type of attachment style you are and how that may affect your relationships.
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Sex Addicts Anonymous (SexAA)
Help for people dealing with cyber sex and sexual addiction.
Co-Dependents of Sex Addicts (COSA)
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Savage Love: A Weekly Advice Column by Dan Savage
The best source of sane advice regarding the politics of sex, gender identity and orientation.It Gets Better Project:
Founded by Dan Savage, the It Gets Better Project's mission is to communicate to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youth around the world that it gets better, and to create and inspire the changes needed to make it better for them.
Homosexuality: Just what does the Bible say?
“Strictly speaking, the Bible says nothing about homosexuality. The term, 'homosexuality', belongs to our modern vocabulary and within modern concepts of the origins and formation of human sexuality. The original Biblical languages contain no words for "sexuality", "heterosexuality" or "homosexuality". Until the modern period, no distinctions between "homosexual' and 'heterosexual' sexuality were made.
That is not to say that same-sex practices were unknown to the biblical writers. Comments on same-sex practices occur in three places within the bible, Leviticus 18:22; 20:13; (proscriptions in the Holiness Code) and Romans 1:24-27 (Paul's stinging rebuke of Gentile society). Such comments are within the context of the ancient, patriarchal understandings and customs through which they were interpreted and are never the topic of sustained discussion.
In some places, reference to homoeroticsm or to same-sex practices has been inferred or added during the process of translation into Latin or into English, as is shown to be the case in Genesis 19:4-11 (the Lot and Sodom story), Judges 19 (the story of the Levite and his wife), 1 Corinthians 6:9 (Paul's reprobate list) and 1 Timothy 1:10(a modified, Pauline reprobate list). Sometimes reference is made to texts in Genesis, Deuteronomy, Ezekiel , 1 Kings and Jude, with respect to homosexuality, all of which are spurious interpretations.” -
“Helpful Suggestions For Sleeping Better at Night” by Lori Dorn
Sleepwalk With Me - an autobiographical film by comedian Mike Birbiglia
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An online resource with information on various drug addictions and treatment options. The site offers help to anyone; from teens to seniors.
Alltyr Clinic (An alternative to the AA Model)
Altyr Clinic specializes in comprehensive assessment and diagnosis. We offer flexible, individualized substance use treatment programs; not all substance use problems are the same.SMART Recovery (An alternative to the AA Model)
SMART Recovery is the leading self-empowering addiction recovery support group. Our participants learn tools for addiction recovery based on the latest scientific research and participate in a world-wide community which includes free, self-empowering, science-based mutual help groups.REHAB AND TREATMENT
ReEntry House (REH)
The mission of ReEntry House is to serve those individuals who are the most severely impaired with mental illness and/or chemical dependence using evidence-based practices in the most humane manner possible. Treatment Programs include: Intensive Residential Treatment, Crisis Stabilization Program, Assertive community Treatment (ACT) Team, and Supportive Housing Program.AddictionResource.net
"It's difficult to find reliable information on addiction and rehabilitation on the internet, so [AddictionResource.net] created a site that provides up-to-date, accurate, and evidence-based information related to addiction, substance abuse, mental health, and treatment...The facilities chosen for our Top 10 lists are put through strict criteria during examination, which you can find on our “How We Choose” page. No facility can submit themselves or pay to be on a list."ADDICTION
DrugRehabConnections.com
Drug Rehab Connections is not a specific treatment facility, instead they are an informational website that connects addicts and their families with the help they need to put their lives together.RehabAid.com
RehabAid is a website dedicated to helping people struggling with addiction find information that can help them lead a better life. Simply building the courage to seek help can often seem like an insurmountable task, and we really want to make that journey as effortless as possible.Alcohol Rehab Help
National guide to the rehabilitation and treatment resources.Drug and Alcohol Addiction Recovery Centers
Coalition Against Drug Abuse
800-943-0566DrugRehab.com
Information and answers for people fighting addiction.