If you have the ability to pay for it, are close enough to one, and can get transport there and back a lot of grad schools that have psych programs offer therapy for cheap so that the students can get in the hours they need. University of Louisville for example offers therapy for $15 a session.
If you are able to do this and are prescribed medicine, but your parents won’t help you pay for it this post gives you several ways to pay for your meds.
However, if you are not able to get these services there are ways that you can help manage your mental illness on your own.
For starters you can use shitborderlinesdo‘s diagnostic checklists or this list of self-screening quizzes to try and figure out what exact disorder(s) you may have. From their you can work with self help tools that will be geared towards what you have.
CBT and DBT are two of the most common types of therapy. Here is a post that explains a little bit about the differences between the two and ACT.
CBT self-help tools
- This website offers tools based on symptoms you may have.
- This website offers worksheets in several languages and also audio therapy resources.
- This site allows you to search for tools by either problem or solution.
DBT self-help tools
- This website offers some self help tools and resources
- This is a site devoted to DBT self-help and was made by people who went through DBT and has tools available.
- dbttiger is a blog that offers lots of dbt tools and skills
- The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook
- DBT Skills Training Manual
Other helpful tools
- Here is a workbook geared specifically towards overcoming trauma and PTSD combining the skills from DBT, CBT, and ACT.
- Here there are lots of resources for individual disorders and issues.
- Here is a list of helpful mental health apps.
- Here is a list of chatrooms.
- Here is a list of other blogs that might be helpful.
- Here is a list of hotlines.
- And here is another list of hotlines.
Not sure if there is a minimum age to use it or not (couldn’t find anything on the site) but Maven Clinic offers mental health (and other medical) appointments online. It’s not free (appointments range from about $20-$70)), but they do send out freebie codes from time to time. There is also a forum community where you can ask general questions as well.
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