Resources

Websites + Links

Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration (SAHMSA) https://www.samhsa.gov/
Suicide Prevention Lifeline https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/
National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) https://www.nami.org/Home
MS Department of Mental Health https://msdh.ms.gov/msdhsite/search/index.cfm
MS AA meetings https://aa-mississippi.org/
MS Suicide & Crisis Hotline http://www.suicidehotlines.com/mississippi.html
MS Department of Human Services https://www.mdhs.ms.gov/
Psychology Today https://www.psychologytoday.com/us
Mental Health America https://mhanational.org/
MS Association of Addiction Professionals https://msaap.net/
Mental Health Foundation https://mentalhealthfoundation.org/
American Psychological Association https://www.apa.org/
American Counseling Association https://www.counseling.org/
MS Counseling Association https://www.counseling.org/
National Institute of Mental Health https://www.nimh.nih.gov/index.shtml
Military One Source Mental Health https://www.militaryonesource.mil/health-wellness/mental-health/mental-health-resources
Headstrong Military Mental Health https://getheadstrong.org/
MS Department of Housing & Urban Development https://www.hud.gov/states/mississippi
SAFE Shelter & Assistance in Tupelo, MS https://www.hud.gov/states/mississippi
Region III- Lifecore http://lifecorehealthgroup.com/

Tests

-Myers- Briggs Personality Type https://www.16personalities.com/
-Enneagram 
https://www.truity.com/test/enneagram-personality-test
-Five Love Languages 
https://www.5lovelanguages.com/quizzes/
-Holland RIASEC Career Inventory 
https://openpsychometrics.org/tests/RIASEC/
-OSPP 4 Temperaments Test 
https://openpsychometrics.org/tests/O4TS/
-O-Net Career Interest Profiler 
https://www.mynextmove.org/explore/ip
-Further Testing
http://Opensychometrics.org

***THIS DOES NOT IN ANY WAY SUBSTITUTE OR DIAGNOSE ACTUAL PSYCHOLOGICAL OR PSYCHOMETRIC TESTING.

Books

The 5 Love Languages by Gary Chapman
Boundaries (several versions) by Cloud & Townsend
Codependent No More by Melody Beattie
The Four Agreements by Miguel Ruiz
The Gifts of Imperfection by Brene Brown
(anything else by her)
Girl, Wash Your Face; Girl, Stop Apologizing by Rachel Hollis
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey
Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
Love Does; Everybody Always by Bob Goff
Grief is a Journey by Dr. Kenneth Doka
On Grief & Grieving; On Death & Dying by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
When God Doesn’t Fix It by Laura Story
Uninvited; Unglued; Made to Crave; It’s Not Supposed to be this Way by Lisa TerKeurst
Letters to a Young Therapist by Mary Pipher
Building Your Ideal Private Practice by Lynn Grodzki
Dibbs In Search of Self by Virginia Axline
The Color of Water by James McBride

Books Often Used in Therapy

Breaking Free from the Victim Trap by Diane Zimberoff
Loving Someone with OCD by Karen J. Landsman
The Asperger’s Secret Book of Social Rules by Jennifer Cook O’Toole
The Self-Esteem Workbook for Teens by Lisa M. Schab
The Shyness & Social Anxiety Workbook for Teens by Jennifer Shannon

Movies Featuring Mental Health

Silver Linings Playbook (2012, Bipolar Disorder)
Girl, Interrupted (1999, institutionalization)
Inside Out (2015, feelings & emotions)
Where the Wild Things Are (2009, emotions, behavioral issues)
Rain Man (1988, Autism)
Shutter Island (2010, psychosis)
The Aviator (2004, OCD)
One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975, institutionalization)
A Beautiful Mind (2001, schizophrenia)
Soloist (2009, schizophrenia)
Ordinary People (1980, suicide & depression)
The Three Faces of Eve (1957, Multiple Personality Disorder)
Benny & Joon (1993, miscellaneous mental health)
Flight (2012, addiction)
Homerun (2013, addiction, Celebrate Recovery)
28 Days (2000, addiction)
When a Man Loves a Woman (1994, alcoholism)
It’s Kind of a Funny Story (2010, institutionalization)
Frankie & Alice (2010, Multiple personality disorder)
Call Me Crazy (2013, 5 different depictions of mental illness)
Gaslight (1944, narcissistic personality disorder)
A Star is Born (2018, addiction, suicide, depression)
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2011, 9/11, PTSD, grief)
My Name is Bill W. (1989, Biopic of AA)
As Good as it Gets (1997, OCD and homophobia)
What’s Eating Gilbert Grape (1993, obesity, depression, autism)
Prozac Nation (2001, depression, drugs)
To the Bone (2017, eating disorders)
Thin (2006, eating disorders)
Saving Mr. Banks (2013, alcoholism)
Splendor in the Grass (1961, depression, suicide, psychosis)
Arsenic & Old Lace (1944, comedy film on mental illness)

TV Shows Featuring Mental Health

Intervention (addiction, enabling, codependency)

Hoarders (hoarding under extreme measures)

Obsessed (OCD, phobias, CBT)

My 600 LB Life (binge eating disorder, addiction)

This is Us (grief, PTSD, anxiety, panic attacks, addiction, binge eating disorder, adoption issues)

The Good Doctor (autism, Asperger’s)

Monk (OCD)

A Million Little Things (suicide, grief)

Grey’s Anatomy (grief, PTSD, postpartum, OCD)

United States of Tara (MPD AKA DID)

The Fosters (adoption issues, anxiety, grief, PTSD, LGBTQ, TBI, addiction)

 
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