Resources

Hotlines for Mainers:

Using Payphone? "888", "800" and "911" are free calls!

1. --> 911: If a suicide attempt has been made, a weapon is present or if the person is out of control.

2. (888) 568-1112 (TTY 711): Mental Health Crisis Hotline (Maine ONLY) is answered by people trained to assess suicide risk.

3. (800) 273-TALK (8255): National Suicide Prevention Lifeline. Call from anywhere in the U.S. Includes a hotline for Veterans.

4. (800) 222-1222: Northern New England Poison Center gives information and treatment advice for poison emergencies.

5. --> 211: Maine Resource Directory gives information on services, counseling, medical help and support groups.

6. (800) 499-9130: Youth Crisis Stabilization Program

7. (800) 737-6237: Alcoholics Anonymous

8. (888) 425-2666: Al-Anon

9. (800) 974-0062: Narcotics Anonymous

10. (800) 452-6457: Maine Drug Enforcement Tip Hotline

11. (800) 621-4000: National Runaway Switchboard

12. (800) 239-9150: Watershed Addiction Treatment

13. (800) 448-3000: Girls and Boys Town 24-Hour National Hotline

14. (800) 784-2433: National Suicide Hotline

15. (800) 252-TEEN: Samariteens Suicide Prevention Hotline

16. (800) 931-2237: Eating Disorders Awareness and Prevention

17. (858) 481-1515: Eating Disorder Referral and Information Center

18. (314) 588-1683: Bulimia and Self-Help 24-Hour Hotline

19. AIDS Hotline (800) FOR-AIDS

20. American Social Health Association: Sexually Transmitted Disease Hotline (800) 227-8922

21. CDC AIDS Information (800) 232-4636

22. AIDS Info: Treatment, Prevention and Research (800) HIV-0440

23. National AIDS Hotline (800) 342-AIDS

24. Child Protection Hotline (Los Angeles County DCFS) Within CA (800) 540-4000 Outside CA (213) 283-1960

25. Judge Baker Children’s Center – Child Abuse Hotline (800) 792-5200

26. Child Help USA National Child Abuse Hotline (800) 422-4453

27. Covenant House (800) 999-9999

28. National Youth Crisis Hotline (800) 442-HOPE (4673)

29. National Domestic Violence Hotline (800) 799-7233

30. National US Child Abuse Hotline (800) 422-4453

31. American Association of Poison Control Centers (800) 222-1222

32. America Social Health: STD Hotline (800) 227-8922

33. Shoplifters Anonymous (800) 848-9595

34. Teen Help Adolescent Resources (800) 840-5704

35. Abuse Victim Hotline (866) 662-4535

36. National Hotline for Missing & Exploited Children (800) 843-5678

37. National Help Line for Substance Abuse (800) 262-2463

38. Maine Warmline: (866) 771-9276 --> Offers telephone support during challenging times and non-crisis situations.

39. Text HOPELINE to 741741 — from anywhere, anytime, about any type of challenge or struggle. Help and hope is just a text away.™ 

Support Services:

1. Your Place, Inc. 8 Old Mill Road - Ellsworth, Maine 04605 - (207) 374-2733 - YPI is incorporated as a 501 (c)(3) non-profit corporation. They host meetings for Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), Narcotics Anonymous (NA; meets at Noon, 7 days a week), Overeaters Anonymous (OA), Co-Dependents Anonymous (CODA), and Al-Anon. 

Counselors In Maine:

1. (207) 288-5888 --> Dawn Nuding, LCPC, Art Therapist --> Mount Desert, Maine --> One-On-One, Counseling / Art Therapy --> Kids, teens and grown-ups

2. (207) 667-1308 --> Alan Wittenberg, M.A., CMT (Surry Music Therapy) --> Surry, Maine --> One-On-One / Group --> Kids, teens and grown-ups

3. (207) 412-8881 --> Cynthia Booker-Bingler, LCSW, Therapeutic Way --> 259 Toddy Pond Road --> One-On-One for kids, teens and grown-ups using canine (dogs). Accepts most major insurances, MaineCare and Medicare.

Support Services for Imprisoned Persons:

1. Maine Prisoner Advocacy Coalition --> maineprisoneradvocacy.org --> maineprisoneradvocacy@yahoo.com --> P.O. Box 2173 Waterville, Maine --> MPAC is made up of Maine prisoners, their friends, families, victims of crime, and others committed to positive changes in Maine's prison system.

Self-Help Websites:

1. www.gocomix.com - Funny Stuff - You can use your Google login for this website. Try reading a cartoon to put a smile on your face. "Peanuts" and "Pickles" are good cartoons to try if nothing else. 

2. www.teenshealth.org

3. www.ifred.org

4. www.girlsandboystown.org

5. www.abovetheinfluence.com

6. www.mentor.org

7. www.dbsalliance.org

8. www.nationaleatingdisorders.org - Eating Disorder Recovery

9. www.edap.org

10. www.selfinjury.com - Self-Harm Recovery

11. www.blurtitout.org - U.K. Website - The Blurt Foundation - Get free email blogs to your email's inbox at about 4 or 5 am on the weekend to recover from depression! Or if you want to buy the book they wrote: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1409177580/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=blurt-21&creative=6738&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=1409177580&linkId=0c81f99d84e09132cb0e36b4adbdaf0b

12. https://easyread.drugabuse.gov/

Articles To Read:

1. https://alcohol.addictionblog.org/why-do-people-start-drinking-alcohol-top-10-reasons/ (Drinking)

2. https://www.alcoholtreatment.net/mouthwash-drunk/ (Drinking mouthwash)

3. http://akisqnuk.org/clc/Solvents%20and%20InhalantsInfo.html (Solvents)

4. http://ww5.inhalent.org/ (Inhalants)

Good Things To Do & Always Remember!

1. Never give up!

2. Love yourself!

3. Find the meaning of life!

4. Love is the only freedom!

5. Get rid of any "friends" - those people who don't help you.

6. Try doing something safe you think you can't do, but first, write about how you feel now so you can look back and see what really happened (put thoughts where they really belong).

7. Breathe!

8. Do art! Do mixed media. Try pens with paint or pens with markers. Or markers with paint.

9. Addictions of any kind will only make things worse! Get help! Talk to someone. If one person doesn't work, try someone else. Not everyone knows how to help someone else in a crisis because maybe your crisis never happened to them or someone they know. Maybe they don't understand. Maybe one person will understand that you need help, and why, and how. Never give up if you are in this muddle (meaning a problem to fix).

10. If you don't know what you are doing, you probably shouldn't be doing it.

11. If you don't know what you are talking about, probably shouldn't be talking about it.

12. Use common sense! (Or ask a wiser person a question)

13. The customer is always right! (Works for retail and other things.)

14. The power is within you!

Kristina Lombardi's Any Addict Version Of The 12-Step Program:

Please note the step #5 might be the hardest step 

for people living with Autism.

1. We admitted we were powerless over our addiction - that our lives had become unmanageable.

2. Came to believe that a Higher Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.

3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of our Higher Power.

4. Made a searching and fearless mental list of ourselves.

5. Admitted to our Higher Power, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.

6. Were entirely ready to have our Higher Power remove all these defects of character.

7. Humbly asked our Higher Power to remove our shortcoming.

8. Made a list of all persons we have harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.

9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.

10. Continued to take our mental list (see step 4) and when we were wrong, promptly admitted it.

11. Wanted through hope and reflection to improve our contact with our Higher Power, asking for knowledge and wisdom.

12. Having this aostucy recovery as a result of these, steps, we try to teach these skills to other addicts and in order to best retain what we have learned.

AOSTUCY: (a-oss-too-cee; noun)

Meaning 1: Any woman clean from cutting/slashing. (Because "TUC" is "CUT" spelt backwards).

Meaning 2: Anyone clean from any addiction. (Kristina feels like "Sober" is a word that is good, and "Recovery" is good, but we need this too!)

Word meaning made by Kristina Greenier as an 11th grader.

Recovery Songs:

• Yellow - Coldplay

• In My Place - Coldplay

• Shower The People - James Taylor

• You've Got A Friend - Carole King & James Taylor

• If You Want Love - NF

• Let You Down - NF

• Lie - NF

• WHY - NF

• Oh Lord - NF

• Green Lights - NF

• Malibu - Miley Ray Cyrus

• Recovery - Céline Dion

• Don't Stop Praying - Matthew West

Things To Try:

• Hand Spinners

• Drinking Tea

• Dutch Candy

• Ginger Candy

• Essential Oils

• Glow Candles - Fake changing flame with remote - Made out of real wax and smells like a real candle

• 2N is a passcode for when fear gets to you (Code from this movie: "Second Chances" Hallmark Movie; spoiler alert: the firefighter was freaking out)

• Call Walmart Radio @ 1 (855) 925-7346 (1-855-WAL-RDIO). Please go to WalmartRadio.com for more information.