EMERGENCY CONTACT INFORMATION
IF YOU ARE IN CRISIS, DO NOT HESITATE TO DIAL THE EMERGENCY SERVICES NUMBER IN YOUR COUNTRY
United States Resources:
Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 800-273-TALK (8255)
Crisis Text Line: Text HOME to 741741
Teen Line: 800-852- 8336 -or- text: TEEN to 839863
Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health 24/7 Help Line: (800) 854-7771
PLEASE ASK FOR HELP
“IT FEELS LIKE IT WILL LAST FOREVER, BUT IT WON’T” RESOURCES:
Mental Health Organizations:
• The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI)
• Mental Health America (MHA)
• Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance (DBSA)
• Anxiety and Depression Association of America (ADAA)
Resource Books:•
Mind Over Mood: Change How You Feel by Changing the Way You Think by Dennis A. Greenberger and Christina A. Padesky
• Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy by David Burns
• Touched With Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament by Kay Redfield Jamison
• The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression by Andrew Solomon
• Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness by Jon Kabat-Zinn
• Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain by John J. Ratey
• The Upward Spiral: Using Neuroscience to Reverse the Course of Depression One Small Change at a Time by Alex Korb
• Bipolar Disorder: A Guide for Patients and Families by Francis Mark Mondimore
Narrative Books:
• An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness by Kay Redfield Jamison
• Loud in the House of Myself: Memoir of a Strange Girl by Stacy Pershall
• Prozac Nation by Elizabeth Wurtzel