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Treatment: 

• Know Your Rights: Parity for Mental Health & Substance Use Disorder Benefits 

• Coping with Depression is hard. This poignant comic shows one woman's journey.

• I take an SSRI for anxiety. This is what it's like.    

• Can big data help psychiatry unravel the  complexity of mental health conditions?

 

Biology of the Brain: 

• Thomas Insel: Toward a new understanding of mental illness

• Steps to turn off the nagging self-doubt in your head

• What hiking does to the brain is pretty amazing

• Hot wired for happiness?

• The mind's biology

 

Family Members & Friends: 

• How to Support a Loved One's Mental Health

• Schizophrenia

• A Guide for Family and Friends 

• What is depression

• My son has bipolar disorder, and he is my hero

• What's the difference between suicidal thoughts and actions? One mom explains.

• Caregiver Stress & Burnout: Tips for regaining your energy, optimism and hope

 

On Living with Mental Health Conditions: 

• Lives Restored: Series profiling individuals living well with a mental illness 

• The truth about mental illness

• The danger of high-functioning depression as told by a college student

• What I wish I could tell my ten-year-old self about my eating disorder

• How YouTube videos help people cope with mental health conditions

 

Wellness & Healthy Living: 

• Depression-Busting Exercise Tips for People too Depressed Too Exercise

 

Art and Humor: 

• What it's like to live with depression, as told through 10 comic panels

• An artist photographs his depression to destigmatize mental illness

• Visible Illnesses Only

• TED Talk: Confessions of a Depressed Comic 

 

Resources & Media For Youth:

• Ok2Talk

• Teen Mental Health 

• Ted Talk: Surviving Anxiety 

• TEDx: A Humanistic View of Mental Illness

• Asking mom: 'Did you know I was depressed in high school?"

 

Blogs:

• NAMI National Blog 

• Hyperbole and a Half

• I've Got Your Back

• List of best blogs on depression

• Turnaround Anxiety (for parents)

• Anxiety-Schmanxiety Blog

• The Best Mental Health Bloggers