Online and Digital Resources

Discover chatrooms, apps, information on mental health conditions, tips and strategies for dealing with mental health challenges, and stories that let you know you're not alone.

ADHD Resources

Services: Contains support, information and resources for persons with ADHD, or for those with loved ones with ADHD. Also contains a blog on ADHD, a discussion forum, and online tests.

How to ADHD

A YouTube channel by someone with ADHD with tips on living with ADHD as well as videos explaining different aspects of ADHD.

Actually ADHD

Services: Contains resources and information from someone living with ADHD, as well as online peer support, and a paid service called “Body Doubling” to help you get tasks done.

ABCs of ADHD

A Tumblr blog run by a person with ADHD, giving their own personal advice and tips to others with ADHD, as well as one-on-one peer support life coaching for persons with ADHD.

Dealing with Executive Dysfunction

A Tumblr post containing a long list of links to help you cope with executive dysfunction.

ADHD Master Document of Resources

A wonderful, long list of online resources compiled by Tumblr user, positivelyADHD, containing advice for students, advice for eating with executive dysfunction, and more.

Anxiety Resources

Anxiety and Depression Association of America: How to Manage Anxiety

ADAA is an international nonprofit organization dedicated to the prevention, treatment, and cure of anxiety, depression, OCD, PTSD, and co-occurring disorders through education, practice, and research, and this page contains advice for treating with different forms of anxiety.

Anxiety.org

Contains in-depth expert information on anxiety disorders, including PTSD, Panic Disorder, Generalised Anxiety Disorder, OCD, and more in an accessible, inclusive, easy-to-find, and easy-to-understand way. It describes the different types of anxiety disorders that exist, how to recognize the signs in someone else, what are the treatment options, the causes and the symptoms.

Coping Skills

Contains free downloads to help with challenging negative and unhelpful thoughts, managing anger, managing distress, relaxation, sleep hygiene, and identifying and rating your feelings.

No Panic

Contains resources on understanding anxiety, OCD, panic disorder, phobias, and advice for managing them. They have a yearly subscription program where you have access to support groups, mentoring, a chat service, and more.

Bipolar Disorder Resources

NIMH: Publications about Bipolar Disorder

Contains resources to understand bipolar disorder, including bipolar disorder in teens and young adults.

NAMI: Understanding Bipolar Disorder

Contains information about the symptoms, causes, treatments, and types of bipolar disorder.

TimeToChange: Bipolar Disorder Blogs

Blog posts written by people with personal experience of bipolar disorder, aimed at increasing the understanding around mental health, breaking stereotypes and taking the taboo out of something that – like physical health – affects us all.

International Bipolar Foundation

Contains coping strategies and tips for persons with bipolar disorder, information on understanding bipolar disorder, guidelines for loved ones who have bipolar disorder, a blog with posts written by persons with bipolar disorder, as well as educational articles, webinars, and more.

Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance

Cost: Free
Services: Online peer support groups for bipolar disorder and depression.

Borderline Personality Disorder Resources

Recovery resources for BPD
Services: A collection of information about recovering from borderline personality disorder, reviewed by a committee of people who have had the diagnosis, are family members of a loved one with the diagnosis, and two dedicated professionals who work with individuals diagnosed with BPD.

NIMH: Publications about Borderline Personality Disorder

Contains information on BPD, including the signs, symptoms, causes and treatments.

NAMI: Understanding Borderline Personality Disorder

Contains information on the symptoms, causes, and possible treatments for BPD.

What is DBT?

Contains information on what is DBT and who it’s for.

DBT (Dialectical Behavioural Therapy) Handouts and Worksheets

Contains handouts and worksheets on DBT skills by Marsha M. Linehan. DBT is one of the most commonly recommended treatments for Borderline Personality Disorder.

DBT (Dialectical Behavioural Therapy) Skills Workbook

Free, downloadable self-help workbook, containing practical DBT exercises.

DBT Self-Help

A website containing free DBT self-help exercises.

Coping Skills

Contains free downloads to help with challenging negative and unhelpful thoughts, managing anger, managing distress, relaxation, sleep hygiene, and identifying and rating your feelings.

Now Matters Now

Services: Research-based ways for managing the most painful moments of life, including Mindfulness, Mindfulness of Current Emotion, Opposite Action and Paced-breathing. These tools are not considered a replacement for one-to-one counseling. You do not have to have suicidal thoughts or mental health problems to use these tools.

Healing from BPD

Created by Debbie, who lives with BPD, this website contains resources, and advice for persons with BPD, as well as personal anecdotes about life with BPD.

Chat Rooms

GLBT Hotline Peer Chat
Cost: Free
Services: Online LGBTQ peer support chat. Issues can be related to coming out issues, gender and/or sexuality identities, relationship concerns, bullying, workplace issues, HIV/AIDS anxiety, safer sex information, suicide, and much more.

Rainn Online Hotline

Cost: Free

Sexual assault survivors can speak to trained specialists who can provide confidential support.

1in6

Cost: Free

Adult male sexual assault survivors can speak to trained specialists who can provide confidential support.

BlahTherapy

Cost: Free

Online, free, anonymous, confidential chat support.

Imalive

Cost: Free

IMAlive is a live online network that uses instant messaging to respond to people in crisis.

Depression Resources

NAMI: Understanding Depression

General information on depression, including symptoms, potential causes, and treatment options.

Health Unlocked: Depression Forum

Cost: Free
Services: An online forum for those with depression to connect with others.

Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance

Cost: Free
Services: Online peer support groups for bipolar disorder and depression.

Postpartum Support

Cost: Free

Services: Includes information and resources on postpartum depression.

Please see the “peer support” tab for peer support options.

Dissociative Disorders Resources

Sane Australia: blog posts from people with Dissociative Identity Disorder

Blog posts from people with DID on what it’s like as well as coping tips.

Instagram accounts

Some helpful Instagram accounts by people with Dissociative Identity Disorder or Other Specified Dissociative Disorder to help explain these conditions, share their own personal experiences of living with them, as well as advice to others who do.

Dissociation.Info

Multiplicity and Me

All of Yggdrasil

The Rings System

Distractions

Distractions can be a helpful tool for distress tolerance:

Open a window anywhere in the world

Make interactive drawings

Draw your own nebula

Watch a timelapse of the future of the universe

Create sand art

Create your own white noise / calming sounds

Play the piano from your keyboard

Draw things quickly

Take me to a useless website

Follow a Youtuber’s daily life in the mountains

Watch unique cooking videos

Watch vintage-like sewing and cosplaying videos

See how fast you’re moving

Watch shows for free

Create an automatic playlist based on one song

Watch these puzzle-solving videos

View the progress of time

Create drawings with pasta

Simulate gravity

Email Support

Samaritans

Cost: Free
Services: Send an e-mail that will be answered by a volunteer, about what’s on your mind, including relationship and family issues, depression, loneliness, and more.

LGBTQ+ Web Resources

Trevor Support Centre
Cost: Free
Services: An online space where LGBT+ youth and allies can find answers to FAQs and explore resources related to sexual orientation, gender identity and more.

Drugwatch

An online health guide for LGBT+ individuals that covers various health concerns.

Guide to Addiction in the Transgender Community

An online guide on how addiction affects the transgender community, its prevalence in the community, its effects on mental health, and more.

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Resources

International OCD Foundation

Provides resources and information for those with OCD, their family members, friends, and loved ones, including what is OCD, who can have it, how to treat it, and reminders for those that live with it that you are not alone.

My OCD Community

A safe, supportive, informative, and friendly community for all people affected by OCD.

NAMI: Understanding Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

Contains information on the symptoms, causes, and possible treatments for OCD.

“SAFE”, a zine about OCD

A zine containing comics and artwork documenting the experiences of living with OCD, by artist, Caroline McKenzie Young.

OCD Peers

An online program providing group support for individuals living with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.

Health Unlocked: OCD Forum

An online forum for individuals living with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder to connect with one another.

Anxiety Canada: Self-Help for Dealing with OCD

A self-help guide for managing OCD at home.

Online Peer Support Resources

Peer Support Space

Free, online peer-led support meetings on Zoom.

Hey Peers

Free, online peer support group meetings for addiction, anxiety, substance misuse, parenting, eating disorders, and more.

Survivor and Co

1 on 1 peer-led support for survivors of trauma.

Lived Experience Studio

Peer support for individuals and couples, led by Sonny Jane, who has lived experience of neurodivergence, mental illness, trauma and disability, and is also non-binary.

Actually ADHD

Services: Contains resources and information from someone living with ADHD, as well as online peer support, and a paid service called “Body Doubling” to help you get tasks done.

Students with Psychosis

Students With Psychosis offers 28+ hours of programming each week available at no cost to students and advocates globally. Over 75% of SWP leadership is from the lived experience perspective. It is our mission to empower student leaders and advocates worldwide through community building and collaboration.

OCD Peers

An online program providing group support for individuals living with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.

Sane Support Forum

Cost: Free
Services: An online peer-to-peer community for mental health support, for sharing ideas and to talk about art, music, and videos.

Side By Side

Cost: Free
Services: An online mental health community where you can listen, share and be heard, moderated by a team at Mind UK.

TrevorSpace
Cost: Free
Services: An online international peer-to-peer community for LGBT+ young people and their friends.

The Dinner Party

Cost: Free

Services: An online international peer support community for people in their 20s and 30s who are dealing with grief from loss.

ForLikeMinds

Cost: Free
Services: An online international peer-to-peer community for persons dealing with mental health conditions, substance misuse, or stressful life events.

Support Groups Central

Cost: Free

Services: Online peer support groups for persons dealing with a wide range mental health conditions.

Certified Listeners

Cost: Free

Services: An online chat service for persons who need emotional support.

Online Hearing Voices Groups

Online peer support groups for people who hear voices.

MeToo Many Voices

Individual and group peer support for survivors of sexual assault.

Other Apps and Resources

Headspace
Services: Focuses on meditation and mindfulness.

Calm
Services: An app for sleep, meditation, and relaxation.

Simple Habit

Services: An app that offers mindfulness and meditation sessions for relaxation.

Woebot

Services: A free app that can help you feel better by helping you track your mood, and by using elements of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT).

Coping Skills

Contains free downloads to help with challenging negative and unhelpful thoughts, managing anger, managing distress, relaxation, sleep hygiene, and identifying and rating your feelings.

Insight Timer #1

A meditation app to assist with issues related to sleep, anxiety, and stress.

Rainy Mood

Rain sounds for sleep and study.

Psychosis Resources

NAMI: Understanding Psychosis

Contains information about the symptoms, causes, treatments, and explanations of psychosis, including early warning signs and related conditions.

Understanding Voices

Includes coping strategies for hearing voices, how to tell others about your experiences with hearing voices, how to support someone who hears voices, and more resources around living with voices.

Voice Collective Forum

An online forum for young people aged up to 25 who hear voices, see visions, have other ‘unusual’ sensory experiences or beliefs, and their supporters.

Online Hearing Voices Groups

Online peer support groups for people who hear voices.

Students with Psychosis

Strong 365 Blog

Strong 365 is shortening the path to effective, life-saving help for individuals with psychosis — one of the most misunderstood health issues affecting young people today. By providing critical information and resources, and showcasing personal stories of finding acceptance, hope and inspiration through tough times, our dream is to redefine seeking help as a sign of strength.

How to communicate with someone experiencing psychosis

Contains useful, basic information for interacting with someone who’s experiencing a psychotic episode.

What to do when someone is having a psychotic episode

A video on what to do if someone is having a psychotic episode by a person with lived experience of psychosis.

Mental Health First Aid, Australia, Psychosis, First Aid Guidelines

Contains information on what psychosis is, how to know if someone you know is developing it, and in-depth information on how to respond to them and support them.

Resources for Sexual Assault Survivors

Me Too Movement

Contains resources and toolkits on healing from sexual trauma, on how to help someone else who is healing, on understanding what sexual assault is, and stories that help other survivors know that you’re not alone.

Self-Care After Trauma
Tips on physical and emotional self-care for survivors Self-Care for Survivors

Survivor Testimonials

[Trigger warning] This video from RAINN can help people who have experienced sexual assault by hearing from other survivors so they know they’re not alone.

1in6: Adult male survivor testimonials

[Trigger warning] These testimonials from other male survivors of sexual assault may help you feel less alone and know that many others have been where you are as well.

Rainn Online Hotline

Cost: Free

Sexual assault survivors can speak to trained specialists who can provide confidential support.

1in6

Cost: Free

Adult male sexual assault survivors can speak to trained specialists who can provide confidential support.

Letters to survivors

Encouraging and inspirational letters to survivors of sexual assault.

The Body: A Home For Love

A community for Black women who are survivors of sexual assault, through wellness, art and storytelling.

Schizophrenia Resources

NAMI: Understanding Schizophrenia

Contains information about the many symptoms, possible causes, and treatments of schizophrenia.

NAMI: Understanding Schizoaffective Disorder

Contains information about the many symptoms, possible causes, and treatments of schizophrenia.

Podcasts

Listen to what life with schizophrenia is like from these podcasts.

Schizophrenia and the City

Inside Schizophrenia

Psychosis Psositivity

Interview with a Schizophrenic

Madness Radio

See more resources under Psychosis resources.

Self-Harm Resources

Sirius Project: How to Cope with Self-Harm

Contains information as to why someone may self-harm, how to recognize the signs of self-harm, how to support someone who self-harms, as well as a list of alternative things to do for someone who self-harms.

The Butterfly Project

A blog containing inspirational stories from persons who have self-harmed.

Project LETS- self-harm initiative
Services: You can mail them all your self-harming tools along with a letter to get them off your hands and take that step towards healing, knowing you’re not alone.

Self-Injury Outreach and Support

Services: They provide resources about self-injury, such as coping techniques, to those who self-injure, as well as information to those who want to help, such as friends and family. They also provide stories of recovery and hope from other persons who have struggled with self-injury.

Helpguide: Cutting Self-Harm

Explains what self-harm is, why people self-harm, and how to help someone who self-harms for anyone interested in helping someone else. It also contains tips on how to stop self-harming and alternatives to self-harming.

Befrienders Worldwide

How to support someone who self-harms, and what you can say to them.

A list of 146 things you can do besides self-harm

A list a of 146 suggestions for things you can do when you feel like self-harming.

Suicide Prevention and Crisis Support Resources

Now Matters Now

Resource for identifying someone who is suicidal
Services: The Canadian mental health organisation, Centre for Suicide Prevention, contains resources on how to identify if someone is suicidal and what you can do.

How to talk to a Suicidal Teen

The Canadian mental health organisation, Centre for Suicide Prevention, contains resources on how to talk to a teen who may be suicidal.

For Youth at Risk of Suicide

The Canadian mental health organisation, Centre for Suicide Prevention, contains resources on how to tell someone you’re suicidal, how to help your friend, and warning signs that a young person is suicidal.

Messages of Hope for anyone considering suicide

Messages of hope from others who have attempted or contemplated suicide to those who are currently experiencing those thoughts on The Mighty website.

Ways to cope in a crisis

Practical tools to use right now, by yourself, wherever you are. If you’re feeling in crisis, this resource is for you.

Suicidology: Resource

Videos, personal stories, and other resources for survivors of suicide attempts.

Unsuicide: Resources

A long list of suicide resources, including apps, online chats, online therapy services, and depression chat rooms.