transgenderteensurvivalguide:

Lee says:

I made a mental health page! I’m copying the current contents of that page below so it’s rebloggable. I’m still working on the page; this is the first reveal of it, but it isn’t fully complete. If there’s anything you’d like to see added, send an ask!

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Getting help:

• Telling your parents you struggle with mental illness
• Self-harm recovery
• Getting a therapist and being in therapy
• How to find a support group
• Getting a diagnosis
• Taking your prescribed medication
• Relapse plan
• Safety plan
• How to tell someone you’re suicidal
• Getting out of an abusive relationship
• How to report sexual assault
• Suicide Hotlines and Crisis Resources

Grounding:

• Soothing grounding exercise
• Physical grounding exercise
• Mental grounding exercise
• Grounding techniques
• How to make a grounding box

Breathing:

• Belly breathing
• Breathe in and out gif
• Color breathing (on pg 2)
• Mindful breathing
• 3 ways to breathe
• How breathing affects feelings

Distress tolerance:

• Distress tolerance skills
• Distress tolerance activities
• Panic list for distress tolerance
• Improving distress
• STOPP worksheet
• How to calm down
• ACCEPTS

Emotion:

• Emotion regulation skills
• Emotion regulation worksheet
• Letting go of painful emotions
• Mindfulness of your current emotion
• Healthy perspectives on emotion
• Coping with intense emotions
• How to overcome emotional numbness
• Facing your feelings

Self-talk and thinking:

• Positive self-talk
• Self-validation
• Personal affirmations
• Positive affirmations
• Daily affirmations
• Positive coping statements
• How to self-validate
• Negative thinking
• 10 growth-minded statements
• Unhelpful thinking habits
• Awareness of unhealthy thinking styles

Self-care:

• An interactive self-care guide
• How to make a comfort box
• Self-care masterpost
• BRACE method
• How to practice self-care
• What will help?

Relaxation and mindfulness:

• Guided meditation
• 15 meditation tips
• How to do progressive muscle relaxation
• Body scan relaxation exercise
• Mindfulness skills and worksheets masterpost
• Imagery
• Imagery self-help
• Relaxation
• Relaxation audio
• Safe-place visualization

Anxiety:

• Anxiety Masterpost
• How to calm yourself during an anxiety attack
• Coping statements for anxiety
• Cognitive restructuring for anxiety
• Anxiety guide
• Worry self-help
• Worry tree
• Worry zones
• Mastering your worries
• How to handle worries
• Facing fears
• Decatastrophizing
• Theory A/Theory B

Specific types of anxiety:

• Social anxiety (NHS)
• Social anxiety self-help tips
• Self-help for social anxiety
• Shyness and social anxiety guide
• Overcoming health anxiety
• Self-help for phobias

Stress:

• Managing stress
• Stress management
• Problem goal framework
• How to relieve stress
• Stress guide
• Stress (NHS)
• Self-help for stress
• The 4 A’s

Depression:

• Dealing with depression
• How to cope with depression
• How to deal with depression
• Motivation
• Depression self-help
• Coping with depression
• 6 ways to reduce depression
• Reality vs expectations
• How to develop willpower
• Clinical depression
• Back from the bluez
• Teenager’s guide to depression
• Small steps

Panic attacks:

• Surviving panic attacks
• How to cope with panic attacks
• Information on panic attacks and coping
• Panic attacks workbook
• Panic self-help
• How to calm yourself during a panic attack
• Panic stations
• 7 steps to managing panic attacks

Dissociation:

• Coping with dissociation
• Handling dissociation
• How to overcome depersonalization
• 3 skills to try

Obsessions and compulsions:

• Self-help for OCD
• The basics of OCD self-help
• Managing your OCD at home
• Obsessive-Compulsive disorder
• Self-help for skin picking and hair pulling

Paranoia:

• How can I help myself?
• Coping with paranoid thoughts
• How to deal with paranoia when you’re home alone
• Court case thought challenge (worksheet)
• 5 aspects model (prompts)
• ABC for paranoia
• Paranoia self-help
• Personal recovery plan
• How to deal with paranoia
• How to handle hallucinations
• Coping with hallucinations and delusions
• Self-care
• Help with paranoia

Flashbacks:

• What helps during a flashback?
• Discrimination Worksheet for Flashbacks
• Coping with flashbacks
• How to deal with having PTSD

Self-esteem:

• Self-help for low self-esteem
• Improving self-esteem
• How to develop self-esteem
• Taking steps to feel better about yourself
• How to raise your self-esteem
• My strengths and qualities
• Toot your horn
• Self-esteem journal
• 11 questions
• Positive belief record

Impulsivity and mania:

• Coping with mania
• Dealing with this manic episode
• Dealing with anger and impulsivity
• Coping with bipolar disorder
• A guide to (bipolar) recovery
• Managing unstable moods
• How to avoid a manic episode
• Things that might cause or trigger manic episodes
• 5 tips for taming impulsivity
• Managing impulsive behaviors

Abuse:

• How to cope if your parents are bullies
• Documenting abuse
• Stalking help
• Three skills to cope with abuse
• Interactive guide to safety planning
• Calling the police
• Safety planning around sexual abuse
• Emotional safety planning
• Breaking up safely
• Domestic violence

Trauma:

• 6 ways to cope with hurt and pain
• 5 self-care tips
• Lifestyle changes to help recovery
• Recovering from rape and sexual trauma
• Traumatic stress
• Self-help for PTSD
• PTSD
• Post-traumatic stress
• Emotional and psychological trauma
• Toxic parents: overcoming their hurtful legacy and reclaiming your life

Eating disorders:

• Eating disorder treatment and recovery
• Eating disorder relapse prevention
• The first step to self-care
• Vicious cycle and alternatives
• Self-soothing techniques
• The principles of intuitive eating
• Recovery meal plans
• What to do after a binge
• Slips, lapses and relapses
• Setting reasonable goals for eating disorder recovery
• A declaration of independence
• Overcoming eating disorders part A
• Overcoming eating disorders part B

Additional resources/info:

• Coping skills toolbox
• How to take care of yourself after a relapse
• Setting goals for recovery
• 10 Tips on How to Work Through Feelings of Social Isolation
• Free online DBT course
• Goal planning
• Behavioral Activation
• Triggers / Getting over triggers
• How to improve sleep / Sleep and dysphoria
• Modifying rules and assumptions
• Dysphoria tips masterpost

Apps:

• Mindfulness Coach
• Pacifica
• Vent
• Daylio
• ACT Coach
• Breathe2Relax
• Happify
• Mindshift
• Operation Reach Out
• CalmHarm (tw: self-harm)
• PTSD Coach
• SAM
• Step Away (tw: alcohol)
• BoosterBuddy
• WayofLife
• RecoveryRecord (tw: eating disorders)
• Habitica
• Stop, Breathe, & Think
• What’s Up? (Apple/Android)