Life and relationships
Family, partners, identity, work, school, money, screens, and the life stages that reshape all of them.
Substance use
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SMART Recovery: secular, evidence-based addiction support
A non-religious, CBT-grounded alternative to 12-step programs for substance and behavioral addictions.
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Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous
The world's largest peer-support fellowships for alcohol and drug recovery: free, anonymous, available almost everywhere.
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Family and relationships
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Al-Anon and Nar-Anon: support for families of people with addiction
Free peer-support groups for adult family members and friends of people with alcohol or drug problems.
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Caregiver burnout, compassion fatigue, and secondary trauma
Family Caregiver Alliance on the mental health toll of caring for someone with a chronic illness, and what actually helps.
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NAMI Family-to-Family: the free 8-session program for relatives
The most widely-used family-education curriculum for serious mental illness, taught by family members who've lived it.
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How to support someone in a depressive, manic, or psychotic episode
NAMI's practical guidance on the conversations that frighten people most.
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After a suicide attempt: what to say, and what not to
AFSP and Lifeline's guidance for families and friends in the days and weeks following an attempt.
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Supporting a teen who is struggling
The JED Foundation on the conversations, the warning signs, and the boundary between watchful presence and active intervention.
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Supporting a partner with a chronic mental illness
DBSA on the long-relationship version of caregiving, and the version where the caregiver also needs care.
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When to call for help: and how
SAMHSA's overview of the U.S. crisis continuum: 988, mobile crisis, crisis stabilization, and the alternatives to calling 911.
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BIPOC mental health: Mental Health America's hub
Why mental health outcomes diverge along racial and ethnic lines, and the community-rooted organizations doing the work in response.
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LGBTQ+ mental health: The Trevor Project research and care
The largest dedicated LGBTQ+ youth mental health organization in the U.S., with annual research that grounds the conversation in data.
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Trans-specific mental health and crisis care
Trans Lifeline and the World Professional Association for Transgender Health on care designed by and for trans communities.
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Immigrant and refugee mental health
The Center for Victims of Torture and the Refugee Health Technical Assistance Center on a population whose distress is rarely captured by ordinary screening.
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Faith communities and mental health
Resources that help congregations support people living with mental illness.
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Neurodivergent adults: ASAN's resource library
The Autistic Self Advocacy Network on autism, ADHD, and the broader neurodiversity movement, written by neurodivergent adults themselves.
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Veterans and military families: VA Mental Health
The Department of Veterans Affairs' mental health portal, plus the Veterans Crisis Line and Make the Connection.
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Disability rights and mental health
The Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund on mental health as a civil rights issue.
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Worried about a teen: JED Foundation guide for parents
The JED Foundation on what parents and caregivers can do when a teenager or young adult is struggling.
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College and early adulthood
Resources from Active Minds for the college years, when many mental health conditions first appear.
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New parents: the perinatal mental health spectrum
Postpartum Support International on the mood, anxiety, and OCD conditions that affect roughly one in five new parents.
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Midlife mental health and the menopausal transition
A short reading list on the cluster of mood, sleep, and cognitive changes that the perimenopause window often brings: including for people who don't identify as women.
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Older adult mental health
The National Council on Aging on the conditions that are most often missed in older adults, and the help that exists when they aren't.
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End-of-life and anticipatory grief
Get Palliative Care and the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization on the mental health dimensions of serious illness and dying.
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Facts for Families: child & adolescent mental health
Short, peer-reviewed handouts from the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry covering everything from tantrums to teen suicide.
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Caring for a family member: Mental Health America guide
Mental Health America on supporting someone you love through a mental health condition.
6 min read
Work, school and screens
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Social media and youth mental health: the Surgeon General's advisory
The official 2023 Office of the Surgeon General advisory on social media's effects on adolescent mental health.
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Screens, phones, and family life
Common Sense Media on the practical question of how to live with screens, more than the moral question of whether to.
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Gaming, problem gaming, and gaming disorder
What is and isn't supported by the ICD-11 gaming disorder diagnosis, in plain language.
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AI chatbots and mental health: the real risks
The Consumer Federation of America's coalition complaint on AI chatbots posing as therapists, and what to know before using one.
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NIOSH Total Worker Health
The federal research program studying how the conditions of work shape mental and physical health.
5 min read
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OSHA workplace mental health resources
What the U.S. workplace-safety regulator says about psychological hazards on the job.
5 min read
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One Mind at Work: employer coalition on mental health
A global coalition of employers committing to evidence-based workplace mental-health practices.
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Job Accommodation Network: mental health accommodations at work
Free, confidential guidance on workplace accommodations for psychiatric and cognitive disabilities.
5 min read