Resources

Emergency Care
If your life is in danger contact 000 and ask for an ambulance or present to your local emergency department for urgent psychiatric care if it is safe to do so.

If you are feeling unsafe or in crisis please contact one of the following services for further support:
•    Lifeline - 13 11 14
•    Suicide call back service - 1300 659 467
•    PANDA National Helpline - 1300 762 306 (Mon-Sat)
•    Local Psychiatric Triage Service: Google the ‘psychiatric triage service’ phone number of your local public hospital (provides urgent psychiatric mental care 24/7) 
•    The Orange Door (Family violence)

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Free personal safety plan app for suicidal or deliberate self harm thoughts

• Lifeline - More about Beyond Now and safety planning

 

Strategies to help relieve stress and anxiety
•    Grounding strategies

• PANDA - grounding strategies

•    Breathing & relaxation strategies 

• PANDA - Perinatal anxiety management 

• Beyond Blue - Self-guided relaxation exercises for anxiety, depression and wellbeing management - breathing exercises, progressive muscle relaxation & visualisation

•    Mindfulness

• Beyond Blue - Mindfulness and mental health

• Smiling Mind App - free Mindfulness app

• Raising Children Network - Mindfulness activities

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Pregnancy & Postnatal Mental Health Support

• PANDA​

• Mum Space

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Medication in Pregnancy & Breastfeeding Advice

• Medicines information | The Royal Women's Hospital

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Self Help Websites & Apps for Mental Health

• Calm - The #1 App for Meditation and Sleep - Calm App

• Beyond Blue - support for anxiety and depression

• CCI - Self Help Resources for Mental Health Problems - Centre for Clinical Intervention - free fact sheets and treatment modules on a range of mental health issues such as anxiety, perfectionism, panic, health anxiety, depression, disordered eating, sleep

• OCD-UK - A national OCD charity, run by, and for people with lived experience of OCD

• Eating Disorders Victoria

• Turning Point addiction treatment, education and research centre  - support for drug and alcohol issues

• Beyond Blue - Cognitive bahaviour therapy

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Self Help Books For Mental Health

• Change Your Thinking – Sarah Edelman  (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy)

• Mindfulness – Gill Hassen

• The Body Keeps The Score – Bessel van der Kolk (Trauma)

 

Parenting Books

• Raising A Secure Child – How Circle Of Security can help you nurture your child’s attachment, emotional resilience and freedom to explore – Kent Hoffman, Glen Cooper & Bert Powell

• Ten Things I Wish You Knew About Your Child’s Mental Health – Dr Bill Garvey

• Raising Girls – Steve Biddulph

• Raising Boys – Steve Biddulph

• Good Inside – A practical guide to becoming the parent you want to be - Dr Becky Kennedy

• Help Me Help My Teen – Maggie Dent

 

Books for Kids

• My Body What I Say Goes – Jayneen Sanders (Body Safety)

• My Brain Is a Home – Orlanda Bettison (the stress response)

• My Mindful Brain – Orlanda Bettison

 

Perimenopause & Menopause

• Jean Hailes | Creating a healthier future for all women  - Jean Hailes for Women’s Health

• Australasian Menopause Society

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Support for Pregnancy Loss, Stillbirth or Neonatal Loss

• Red Nose

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Type 1 Diabetes

• Beyondtype1.org - Mental Health + Type 1 Diabetes | Beyond Type 1

• NDSS - Fear of hypoglycemia fact sheet