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Mental Health Resources during COVID 19

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Tips on managing mental health during COVID 19
"Transitioning into adulthood can bring big changes and intense challenges. The Jed Foundation (JED) empowers teens and young adults with the skills and support to grow into healthy, thriving adults".
The Center for Disease Control and Prevention
The Center for Disease list healthy ways to cope with stress during COVID

Forsyth Technical Community College offers a monthly virtual Mindful Meditation. You can find out more about this event by clicking here.

Mental Health during COVID-19
Mental Health Coping strategies during the Pandemic

Find a Therapist

The following websites allow users to quickly find a therapist by entering in zip code.

Psychology Today
Therapy for Black Girls
Therapy for Latinx
Find a therapist here
Pride Counseling
Counseling and Psychological help for the blind and visually impaired click here
Therapy for Black Men
Headway find a therapist.
Mental Health Greensboro offers a Facebook peer support group. For more information, click here.
Local Mental Health providers a free list of mental health providers.
Virtual NAMI Programs-find local support chapters for family, caregivers, and friends.
ACHA-National College Health Assessment has an abundance of mental health resources.
Cardinal Innovations Healthcare offers mental health screenings. Need mental health fast? Call **ASK (star-star-2-7-5) from your mobile device or call 1-800-939-5911
Crisis Control-Connect with a counselor text HOME to 741741

Social Media Mental Health Influencers|Blogs

Hilary Jacobs Hendel is a New York bestselling author. Psychotherapist, Blogger, Author, and Speaker. Check out her websites here.

Natasha Tracy is an award-winning author, speaker, and mental illness advocate. She writes about Bipolar.

Dr. Marks is a forensic psychiatrist. She assists patients with overcoming anxiety. depression and burnout. Learn more at https://markspsychiatry.com/about/

Check out Black Zen a safe space dedicated to guided meditation.

Time to Change blog addresses mental health stigma.

My Brain's not Broken blog promotes mental wellness

National Hotlines

The Trevor Project is "the leading national organization providing crisis intervention and suicide prevention services to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer & questioning youth".

National Alliance on Mental Health

"NAMI is the National Alliance on Mental Illness, the nation’s largest grassroots mental health organization dedicated to building better lives for the millions of Americans affected by mental illness."
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline

The National Suicide Prevention is open 24 hours, 7 days a week to offer confidential emotional support. Service is available in English and Spanish.
SAMHSA National Helpline

SAMHSA's is a national helpline to assist people with substance, abuse, and mental health issues. It is a free confidential helpline open 24 hours, 365 days. Service is available in English and Spanish.
Veteran Crisis Line is available 24/7 to help veterans Call 1-800-273-8255 and Press 1
Suicide Hotline 800-273-8255

Mental Health Awareness

Advocate for Mental Health Policy Changes

NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness)- learn how to advocate for mental health policy reform.

Wake Network of Care provides a comprehensive list of organizations that support a wide variety of services from development disabilities, homelessness, and mental health services.

Further Reading on Mental Health

Freedom from Family Dysfunction by Kenneth PERLMUTTER
ISBN: 9781538121955
Publication Date: 2019-11-08
The headlines ring with stories of opioid addiction and overdose. Parents complain about their children's screen addiction, law enforcement decries the flood of fentanyl, scores of Americans overdose and die daily, and teen alcohol poisoning and marijuana-induced psychosis rates continue to rise. Disabling depression and anxiety are diagnosed at alarming rates in families across the country. Now, more than ever, families struggle to live with, care for, and protect their family members suffering with addiction or mental illness.

Kenneth Perlmutter, a California psychologist with 30-plus years in the field, has written Freedom from Family Dysfunction specifically for family members who love someone battling addiction or mental illness who want to break the cycles of codependency and relapse plaguing their dysfunctional systems. The combination of compelling vignettes, lively dialogues, and step-by-step instructions makes this guidebook an indispensable tool for the parents, partners, adult children, and the clinicians who treat them, to heal the powerlessness, pain, and impossibility of life with someone they¿ve been trying to help, sometimes for decades.

Perlmutter takes a systemic and inter-generational view, combining current knowledge with his deep personal experience of addiction and family dysfunction to guide readers toward understanding their systems, their positions in them, and the forces that keep things stuck.

¿Stress-Induced Impaired Coping (SIIC)¿ is the term he¿s coined to describe his ground-breaking model of family system pathology and recovery. He invites families to see themselves not as dysfunctional, but as wounded, as they work toward connection, closeness, and the restoration of systemic mental wellness and sustainability. Best of all, the method works regardless of whether the one identified as ¿the problem¿ makes changes or not.

Family members who take up Perlmutter¿s method will:

· create closeness by pursuing connection over being right

· reject ¿tough love"

· learn to communicate authentically and to set boundaries confidently and fairly

· rebuild trust, authenticity and equality in family relationships

· reduce chaos, anxiety and distress in the mind and in the home

· shift the entire family system itself toward wellness
Finding Your Voice by Mannette Morgan
ISBN: 9781641463744
Publication Date: 2019-10-22
"An excellent book which can help not only survivors of abuse, but all women who are feeling like victims." - Library Journal, Starred Review Finding Your Voice is a personal, comprehensive guide for survivors of abuse making the journey toward healing. Led by an author who has walked the path for more than three decades, readers will find encouragement and hope as they move step-by-step to a place of recovery. Part memoir, part blueprint for recovery, Finding Your Voice uses a mix of personal anecdotes, accumulated knowledge, expert techniques and good, common sense to help readers navigate a new path in the aftermath of abuse. With clear instructions and insightful examples, the author leads readers through the five stages of healing-- while teaching them how to improve and strengthen their relationships - built upon the foundation of years of self-help work, therapy, and reflection, and the author's own transformative approach to healing. Recognize abuse Embrace the Big 3- Self acceptance, love and self-respect Understand how your behaviors are the key to lasting change Learn how to manifest your true desire Discover the joy you deserve by applying the "Happy Booster." The healing journey takes time and patience. The mix of empathy, practicality and encouragement running throughout Finding Your Voice provides the ideal guide for that journey. A workbook is available as a companion to Finding Your Voice.

Mental Health Resources

Yellow Tulip Project is a nonprofit that helps to bring awareness to mental health illness and to eradicate the stigma associated with mental health.

LGBTQ Mental Health Resources-Social & Emotional Wellness Initiative (SEWI) provides a comprehensive list of LGBTQ mental health resources, training, and curriculum design.

Crisis Counselor-Connect with a counselor text HOME to 741741

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