Mental Health Awareness Resources: Home

Local Resources for Mental Health Assistance:

• Alachua County Crisis Center
• Shands Vista 
• Florida Recovery Center 
• Suicide and Crisis Lifeline
• UF Counseling and Wellness Center
• Dimensions of Wellness (UF GatorWell)

Reference Sources

• Mental Health (Opposing Viewpoints in Context)
• Loneliness Epidemic (report from CQ Researcher)
• Deaths of Despair (report from CQ Researcher)
• Gale Encyclopedia of Mental Health
• SAGE Encyclopedia of Trans Studies: Mental Health
• Mental Health in America: A Reference Handbook
• Mental Health Risk Assessments interactive map book

Films

• Truth About Improving Your Mental Health
• Adventures in Mental Health
• Blue Mind: The Healing Power of Water
• The Storm: Hiding in Plain Sight
• The Gift of Therapy: A Conversation with Irvin Yalom, MD 
• Coming Clean: America's Opioid Crisis
• CrazyWise: Rethinking Madness
• Mysteries of Mental Illness: Who's Normal?
• 28 Days
• A Beautiful Mind
• Temple Grandin

Books--Mindfulness

• Empowering Mindfulness for Women
• Mindfulness for Young Adults
• Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy for Depression

Books--Self Help

• The Power of Bad: How the Negativity Effect Rules Us and How We Can Rule It
• Happiness is a Choice You Make
• Weird: The Power of Being an Outsider in an Insider World
• But You Don't Look Autistic at All
• The Power of Regret: How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward
• The Memo: What Women of Color Need to Know to Secure a Seat at the Table

Books--Graphic Novels

• Look Straight Ahead: A Graphic Novel
• Happiness Will Follow: A Graphic Novel Memoir
• Psychiatric Tales: Eleven Graphic Stories about Mental Illness
• Bitter Medicine: A Graphic Memoir of Mental Illness

Books--Memoirs

• Willow Weep for Me: A Black Woman's Journey through Depression
• Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
• What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma
• Electro Boy: A Memoir of Mania
• Born on a Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant
• In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss

Books--Women and Mental Health

• Lesbian and Bisexual Women's Mental Health
• The Madness of Women: Myth and Experience
• Women and Mental Health

Books--Addiction

• How to Change Your Mind
• More, Now, Again: A Memoir of Addiction
• In Pain: A Bioethicist's Personal Struggle with Opioids