Resources
by RI Editors
This post is part of our Peculiar Minds series. Please read the intro post here.
We really know very little about what is normal. As editors, simply creating a set of boundaries for a discussion of mental issues was problematic. If we include depression, do we also include divorce? If we include alcoholism, do we also include Asperger’s? There are movements to ceased categorizing some syndromes as low-functioning complexes, recognizing the high-functioning aspects, and simply discuss different brain structure or chemistry (as many who deal with autism have suggested). Still, at some level we need to be able to discuss real life issues many of us, as sufferers or caregivers or interested friends, are facing on a daily basis.
The articles you will read will provide added perspective to a clinical definition of a condition. Other resources exist to broaden and deepen your understanding, providing specific guidance or additional resources. The purpose of this post is to consolidate the resources we’ve found in one area. As our readers submit comments, we will edit this post, bringing all these resources together in one place for future reference.
We invite you to share what has brought you peace, understanding, or tools to deal with your experience with the mental and emotional issues that plague our generation.
Books
- 8 Weeks to Optimum Health / Andrew Weil, MD
- Valley of Sorrow: A Layman’s Guide to Understanding Mental Illness for Latter-day Saints / Elder Alexander B. Morrison
- Matters of the Mind: Latter-day Saint Helps for Mental Health / Williams, ed.
- Breaking the Cycle of Compulsive Behavior / Beck and Beck
- Feeling Good / David D. Burns
- Willpower is Not Enough: Why We Don’t Succeed at Change / A. Dean Byrd
- Women Who Do Too Much / Patricia Sprinkle
- Feelings Buried Alive Never Die / Karol Truman
- Perfect Health / Deepak Chopra
- SOS Help for Emotions: Managing Anxiety, Anger, and Depression / Lynn Clark
- Mindset: The New Psychology of Success / Carol Dweck
- The God Who Weeps / Givens and Givens
- Addiction Recovery Program (LDS 12-Step, free download)
- Healing Through Christ (atonement application, free download)
Internet Sites
- Association of Mormon Counselors and Psychotherapists
- National Alliance on Mental Illness
- Investigating the DSM Online (classifications of disorders)
- Understanding Mental Illness (Ending the Stigma)
- LDS Addiction Recovery (with 12-Step Program)
- Healing Through Christ (using the atonement)
- P0rnography (addict and family)
- Evergreen International (Same Sex Attraction)
- Mormons and Gays (Church-sponsored)
- National Suicide Prevention Lifeline
- Suicide Prevention Resource Center
- Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance
- Yale University Autism Seminar
- Stanford School of Medicine, Understanding OCD and Related Disorders
- Anxiety and Depression Association
- Alzheimer’s Association
- Authentic Happiness (Positive Psychology Center at UPenn)
- Medications (National Institute of Mental Health)
- Alcoholics Anonymous
- Al-Anon (for those affected by someone else’s drinking)
- National Eating Disorders Association
Articles
- Suicide: Some Things We Know and Some We Do Not / Elder M. Russell Ballard
- Successful and Schizophrenic / Elyn R. Saks / NY Times
- 10 Ways to Cope with Anxiety / Robert L. Leahy, Ph.D / Real Simple
- ABC News Series on Health and Depression
- The Urge to End it All – Understanding Suicide / Scott Anderson / NY Times
- Temple Grandin: Understanding Autism / 60 Minutes Overtime (CBS)
- Schizophrenic is the New Retarded / Patrick House / Slate
- Science Daily (News Aggregator for Brain/Mind Health)
- Psych Central (Psychology and Mental Health News)
Programs
The Entire Series
- Forum – Is Mental Illness a Latter Day Plague?
- Resources (research)
- Resources for Help with Mental Illness by Paul
- Understanding PTSD by Robin Grosland
- Anxiety Disorders, Including PTSD (research)
- The Diagnosis by anonymous
- Understanding Asperger’s by Kathy Ward
- Understanding Dementia by Cassandra Jones
- Different Issues for Children (research)
- Asperger’s and Autism (research)
- Simply Depression by Jendoop
- How to Help Someone Who is Depressed: an LDS perspective by Sarah Hancock
- Forum - Does Committing Suicide Consign Someone to Hell?
- The Well of Depression by Cheryl
- Panic, OCD, Grandma and Me by NotMolly
- Understanding Panic Disorder, Agoraphobia, and OCD by Robison Wells
- Free at Last by anonymous
- Forum - No One Wants to Hear They’re Wrong
- Understanding P0rnography Addiction by Dr. Kevin Skinner
- What is Real? Living Without Diagnosis by anonymous
- A Reader’s Story of Hope by anonymous
- Understanding Bipolar II Disorder by Tresa Edmunds (Reese Dixon)
- What is Bipolar Disorder? (research)
- Choosing Treatment through Revelation by Bonnie
- Overcoming Anxiety and Depression Without Medication by Aaron Anderson
- How Do We Embrace Those with Mental Illness by Jendoop
- What is Schizophrenia? (research)
- Understanding Schizophrenia by Judy Hall
- Understanding a Roommate with Schizophrenia by anonymous
- Understanding Borderline Personality Disorder by Melissa Horsley
- My Path Down the Rabbit Hole by anonymous
- Mental Illness FHE Lesson by Jendoop
- Healing by Michelle
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Wonderful job, but I imagine that some may baulk at the inclusion of Evergreen. I always ask myself the question- ‘Would I want my kids thinking to be called into question by this person?’
I try to look for resources that do not have an interest in any particular outcome. Whilst that is an impossible aspiration, I think it’s generally laudable, since it’s an attempt at increasing agency.
Yes, it may concern some. But it may help others. We’re trying not to take sides. There are so many paths to healing. For some, they themselves already have an outcome in mind, and they want to match up with a group that has that same outcome in mind. It’s an efficient path. We’ve tried to only include those resources who are honest and up-front about their methods and expectations.
Understood, your point about individuals finding what they may be seeking is understandable. Although I do believe that what we may want sometimes actually needs to be challenged.
Another internet site: Families Anonymous (www.familiesanonymous.org), including online 12-step meetings for families of those who battle addiction.
The LDS Addiction Reocovery Program also offers phone-in meetings for those who struggle with addiction and for family members. More info at the LDS addiction recovery site listed above.
Another book resource that has really helped me start to understand my own clinical depression is… Reaching For Hope: An LDS Perspective on Recovering from Depression (available through Amazon or Deseret Book).
I am impressed with the generally high quality of resources you have posted. Thank you so much for posting sources of accurate information! I am going to use some of these as suggested resources for my patients.