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- The American Psychological Association (APA) has a Help Center, which is an online resource for brochures, tips and articles on the psychological issues that affect your physical and emotional well-being, as well as information about referrals
- Find a Psychologist (APA search engine): A psychologist can help you cope with many of life's problems. Locate a practitioner in your local area using this new and growing online Psychologist Locator Service.
- Depression:
- The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), part of the National Institutes of Health, has many booklets, fact sheets, and brochures on Depression
- Online Depression Screening Test: Designed to give a preliminary idea about the presence of mild to moderate depressive symptoms that indicate the need for an evaluation by a psychiatrist.
- How Psychotherapy Helps People Recover from Depression: This question-and-answer fact sheet discusses depression with a focus on how psychotherapy can help a depressed person recover.
- To find a clinic in your area that offers free depression screening, call the National Depression Screening Line at 800-573-4433. To learn more about depression and other affective disorders:
- Suicide Prevention: Collection of suicide prevention resources from the NIMH.
- Depression Community Site: Blog posts, discussion boards, news, images, and videos designed to educate and provide peer support for people with depression.
- "Heart And Blood Vessels Damaged By Depression, Anxiety Which Spur Poor Health Habits": Anyone will tell you that stress is bad for the heart. Many people also know about the toxic effects of anxiety and depression. But how exactly do these negative emotions cripple the cardiovascular system - and what can be done about it?
- "Studies Try to Tease Apart the Links Between Depression and Heart Disease": People who are depressed are literally sick at heart: they have a significantly increased risk for cardiovascular disease, and no one knows exactly why. Now three new studies have tried to explain this, and they arrive at subtly different conclusions.
- Information on Generalized Anxiety Disorder: Describes GAD including signs & symptoms, treatment options, and ways to get help.
- About Panic Disorder: An easy-to-read booklet on Panic Disorder that explains what it is, when it starts, how long it lasts, and how to get help.
- A great overview of psychiatric Medications
- How Stress Affects Men and Women: Psychologist Patricia Farrell, PhD, discusses the different ways men and women handle stress. Find out how to reduce stress and boost your health.
- Can Stress Boost Heart Disease?: Learn about the link between stress and heart disease.
- Job Stress and High Blood Pressure: Many of us think our jobs are stressful at one point or another, but it might not be from the jobs that you would expect.
- Stress and Emotions Can Negatively Effect Heart Health: Prevention was a key message during National Heart Health month, and the American Psychological Association (APA) has released strategies to help Americans manage stress
- Emotional Eating: When you're feeling low, a dish of ice cream can sure perk things up. But for some, eating to soothe emotions is a crutch.
- Obesity and Mental Wellness: Being overweight used to be viewed as a failure. Experts now see how mind-body connections can sabotage the best intentions.
- Tips for Managing Stress: Learn more about stress and ways that people can take healthy steps to managing stress in their lives.
- Options for Reducing Stress: Research shows that there are many options available to reduce stress. Find the best stress-reduction option for your lifestyle.
- Stress Management Community Site: Blog posts, discussion boards, news, images, and videos designed to educate and support stress management.
- The Center for Mind-Body Medicine: Working to create a more effective, comprehensive and compassionate model of healthcare and health education. The Center’s model combines the precision of modern science with the wisdom of the world’s healing traditions.
- Mind-Body Community Site: Blog posts, discussion boards, news, images, and videos about the mind-body connection.
- Check out the Mind-Body medicine information on the NIH’s The National Center of Complementary and Alternative Medicine website
- The Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine (at MGH): On this website, find help if you're experiencing the negative effects of stress; learn how to elicit the relaxation response; review courses for health professionals; and sample a new line of relaxation CDs.
- MGH Psychiatry Resources: A list of programs and resources offered by MGH Psychiatry.
- MGH Center for Women's Mental Health: This website provides a range of current information including discussion of new research findings in women’s mental health and how such investigations inform day-to-day clinical practice.
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