Resources

Crisis support

For immediate support see a list of up to date telephone and online services listed at health.vic.gov.au/mental-health-services/telephone-and-online-services

Therapy resources and websites:

• Centre for Clinical Interventions
• feelinggood.com (the four-part series on self-esteem is particularly good!)
• mindremakeproject.org
• Metacognitive Training for Depression (D-MCT)
• Greater Good Magazine
• thehappinesstrap.com
• actmidfully.com.au
• John Barletta
• Zen and Internal Family Systems; Working with Parts

Therapy apps:

• Clinical Neuropsychology
• Metacognitive Training
• Moodnotes
• Calm

Interesting writers/thinkers/
articles/blogs:

• Pema Chodron
• Tara Brach
• Mark Manson
• Matt Haig
• Sarah Wilson
• Sam Harris
• Ask Polly
• Wait But Why?
• The Marginalian
• How Loneliness Begets Loneliness
• Dan Harris on Triple J's Hack

Psychology-relevant books:

• When Things Fall Apart - Pema Chodron
• Man's Search for Meaning - Viktor Frankl
• Daring Greatly
• Love's Executioner & Other Tales of Psychotherapy - Irvin Yalom
• Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death - Irvin Yalom
• Perfect Girls, Starving Daughters: The Frightening New Normality of Hating Your Body - Courtney Martin
• The Happiness Trap: Stop Struggling, Start Living - Russ Harris
• Loneliness: Human Nature and the Need for Social Connection - John T. Cacioppo
• Self-Esteem: A Proven Program of Cognitive Techniques for Assessing, Improving, and Maintaining Your Self-Esteem - Matthew McKay & Patrick Fanning
• the Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck - Mark Manson
• Sapiens - Yuval Noah Harari

Short clips:

• The Surprising Science of Happiness
• The Power of Vulnerability
• This is Water
• Sam Harris on Free Will

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