DEPRESSIVE DISORDER RESOURCES
Black Dog Institute
https://www.blackdoginstitute.org.au/resources-support/depression/
Information on signs, symptoms, causes, treatments and resources for those with depression.
Online mental health assessment to see if you may have a mental health condition.
BluePages
Online forum with chatboards.
Information on treatments for depression, and screening tests for depression and anxiety
Provides links to other resources
You need to register but you register with an alias to chat on a board with others who will understand what you’re going through.
BeyondBlue
1300 22 4636
Factsheets, resources and podcast on mental health.
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.
MindSpot
Create an account for an assessment on your mental health, then be connected to recommendations for treatment. CBT courses may be recommended by a MindSpot therapist.
Chat to a psychologist at the clinic once a week online.
MoodGYM
Anonymous, free, interactive self-help book teaching skills to help prevent and manage symptoms of depression and anxiety.
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
Programs include LIFE Flex (Anxiety and depression), iSleepWell (insomnia), iChooseWell (general wellness), iMindTime (mindfulness), iConsiderLife (self-help crisis support)
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
OnTrack Programs
Provides free programs on alcohol, depression, alcohol AND depression, psychosis, diabetes, family & friends.
Referral needed from a practitioner who must have an OnTrack Professional account
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.