Mental Help Resources

National Mental Health Association - With more than 340 affiliates nationwide, NMHA works to improve the mental health of all Americans, especially the 54 million people with mental disorders, through advocacy, education, research and service.

Mental Health Today - Information on many disorders - including AD(H)D, Bipolar Disorder, Gender Identity, PTSD, Suicide and Hotline, Depression and Schizophrenia.

Mental Health Matters - Information and Resurces for Consumers, Professionals, Students and Supporters.

Mental Health - Our goal is to improve understanding, diagnosis, and treatment of mental illness throughout the world.

Mental Health Recovery - Mental Health Recovery Self-Help Strategies.

NARPA - National Association for Rights Protection and Advocacy.

National Empowerment Center - Recovery is real and this website is filled with practical information that will help you recover if you have been labeled with a mental illness.

NAMI SCC - Mental health recovery, news, advocacy and personal experiences. Santa Cruz affliate of the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill.

British Columbia Schizophrenia Society - A non-profit society providing support and resource info to families and their ill relatives.

Advocacy Unlimited, Inc. - Advocacy Education for Persons with Psychiatric Disabilities

Open the Doors - Site with many resources for schizophrenia and articles about the stigma associated with schizophrenia.

World Fellowship for Schizophrenia & Allied Disorders - WFSAD is dedicated to lightening the burden of serious mental illness for sufferers and their families and to creating public awareness of this disease.

Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance - The nation's leading patient-directed organization focusing on the most prevalent mental illnesses - depression and bipolar disorder.

Alliance for Human Research Protection - National network of lay people and professionals dedicated to advancing responsible and ethical medical research practices, to ensure that the human rights, dignity and welfare of human subjects are protected, and to minimize the risks associated with such endeavors.

Prozac Truth -  Information about issues related to this drug's US licensing. Also describes the side effects of SSRIs and other antidepressants and psychiatric medication, and recommends nutritional supplements and other strategies to counteract side effects and assist with withdrawal.

Mind Freedom Online - Support Coalition International will take leadership in vitalizing the mind freedom movement by uniting groups in a cooperative spirit, celebrating empowering emotional support, and launching human rights campaigns that activate a wide diversity of the public.

The Antipsychiatry Coalition - The Antipsychiatry Coalition is a nonprofit volunteer group consisting of people who feel we have been harmed by psychiatry - and of our supporters.