BIPOLAR DISORDER RESOURCES
Black Dog Institute
https://www.blackdoginstitute.org.au/resources-support/bipolar-disorder/
information on signs and symptoms, types of bipolar disorder, definitions of manic and depressive episodes, psychotic symptoms, diagnosis, impact, causes, treatment, help and support for bipolar disorder. A bipolar self-test can also be taken.
Centre for Clinical Interventions
https://www.cci.health.wa.gov.au/Resources/Looking-After-Yourself
Self-help resources for mental health issues.
e-Couch
Online, self-directed training program providing interactive self-help information to help users with common mental health issues.
Provides 5 programs: depression, anxiety and worry, social anxiety, divorce and separation and loss and bereavement.
Worksheets that have been completed can be printed out and taken to the clinician that they are seeing to better explain how they’re going.
Eastern Health Mental Health Triage
Click here for further information
1300 721 927 (24h, 7 days a week)
Mental health service operating within the Eastern Region of Melbourne providing mental health assessment and interventions for people experiencing severe mental illness.
Mental Health Online
https://www.mentalhealthonline.org.au
Free service, requires signing up for an account
Provides access to online mental health assessment, treatment programs and eTherapists once a treatment program has begun.
myCompass by the Black Dog Institute
Consumers can list behaviours that aren’t working for them and the program keeps track of them and might highlight potential triggers.
It also shows a graph in self-monitoring which can show changes in their mood over time. Sends messages regularly to remind the user to stay on-track.
Designed for mild to moderate anxiety and depression.
It’s free to anyone in Australia
Can print out graphs and take it to the GP to show them what’s going on with you.
Has a “mood monitoring” system that you can plot against lifestyle changes including physical activity, healthy eating, drinking habits, etc.
My Digital Health
https://www.mydigitalhealth.org.au
Easy way for a practitioner and client to keep track of a client’s mental health progress, and for a consumer to learn more about mental health
Programs include LIFE Flex (Anxiety and depression), iSleepWell (insomnia), iChooseWell (general wellness), iMindTime (mindfulness), iConsiderLife (self-help crisis support)
SANE Australia
1800 187 263
Support for people with complex mental health issues. Provides counselling, peer support, information and more.
This Way Up
6 modules for $59 or for free if referred by a clinician, modules done fortnightly.
Courses in depression, worry, social anxiety, panic attacks, health anxiety, OCD, PTSD, perinatal mental health, teen mental health, chronic conditions and wellbeing.
7 Cups
Free online 24h chat tool with trained professionals. Available as an app or as a website.