Mental Health

Useful Resources

Websites with resources to support Mental Health

Youth Beyond Blue

Check out our fact sheets - they don’t contain confusing medical jargon or sugar-coat the issues - just plain, easy-to-understand facts about problems people commonly experience as a part of growing up.

Facts sheet topics listed below - click link above to access Youth Beyond Blue site

General information

• • Understanding depression - information for adults (fact sheet)

  • Understanding Depression and Anxiety (Flyer)

  • Depression symptom checklist

  • What causes depression? (fact sheet 3)

  • Practical ways to help someone with depression (information card)

  • Treatment

  • A Guide to What Works for Depression (booklet) - a comprehensive review of all known treatments for depression, including medical, psychological, complementary and lifestyle interventions

  • A Guide to What Works for Anxiety Disorders

  • Types of help available (fact sheet 4)

  • Changing your thinking - Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (fact sheet 10)

  • Antidepressant medication - Advice for adults (fact sheet 11)

  • Help for depression under Medicare (fact sheet 24)

  • Benzodiazepines (tranquillisers and sleeping pills) (fact sheet 44)

  • Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) (fact sheet 48)

Recovery

• • Reducing stress (fact sheet 6)

  • Sleeping well (fact sheet 7)

  • Keeping active (fact sheet 8)

  • Changing your thinking - Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (fact sheet 10)

  • Reducing alcohol and other drugs (including smoking) (fact sheet 9)

  • Other treatments for depression and anxiety (fact sheet 14)

  • Recovery (fact sheet 15)

  • Healthy eating for people with depression, anxiety and related disorders (fact sheet 30)

  • Family and friends

  • beyondblue Guide for Carers - Supporting and caring for a person with depression, anxiety and/or a related disorder: Caring for others, caring for yourself

  • Taking Care of Yourself: After retrenchment or financial loss (booklet)

  • How can you help someone with depression/anxiety? (fact sheet 1)

  • Living with and caring for a person with depression/anxiety (fact sheet 2)

  • Taking Care of Yourself and Your Family by John Ashfield (reproduced with support from beyondblue) (Book)

  • Practical ways to help someone with depression (information card card)

  • Antidepressants for the treatment of depression in children and young people (fact sheet for parents and carers)

  • Related disorders

  • Anxiety disorders (information card)

  • Anxiety disorders (fact sheet 21)

  • Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (fact sheet 31)

  • Generalised Anxiety Disorder (fact sheet 35)

  • Panic Disorder (fact sheet 36)

  • Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (fact sheet 37)

  • Specific Phobias (fact sheet 38)

  • Social Phobia (fact sheet 39)

  • Bipolar disorder (fact sheet 16)

  • Postnatal depression (fact sheet 22)

  • Reducing alcohol and other drugs (including smoking) (fact sheet 9)

  • Eating disorders and depression (summary information card)

  • Eating disorders and depression (fact sheet 42)

  • Problem gambling and depression (fact sheet 45)

Beyond Blue

Black Dog Institute

The Black Dog Institute is a not-for-profit, educational, research, clinical and community-oriented facility offering specialist expertise in depression and bipolar disorder.

Life Resolutions

Life Resolutions is Australia’s leading network of professional psychology practices. Located throughout Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland, our experienced psychologists have been assisting clients to live more fulfilled and happy lives since 2001.

The Shed Online

An online community for men