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ArcHub: Mental Health

Emergency

  • YouFeelLikeShit.com [website] [alt website] - Feel like Shit? Don't know why? This is for you.
  • MentalHealthFirstAid.org - Mental health first aid training
  • FireweedCollective.org/crisis-toolkit/ - tools for mental health crises
  • Warmline.org - Distinct from traditional behavioral health support lines, warmlines are staffed by peers with personal experience. They apply lived experience and core values—such as choice, self-determination, respect, and hope—to empower individuals in safety planning, crisis prevention, and informed decision-making, offering a safe space free from coercion or the fear of institutionalization.

General Tools & Guides

Guides

Tools

Mental Fitness

ADHD & ADD

ADHD & ADD are conditions mainly characterized by difficulty directing and maintaining mental focus. This is considered a form of neurodivergence, and can be treated with drugs.

Addiction

Addiction is a condition where your mind and/or body become accustomed to and/or dependent on substances or activities in a way that is damaging. People can become addicted to anything that they regularly experience, especially something that provides pleasure or relief. An activity as simple and typically beneficial as reading can be an addiction. When discussing addiction however, people are usually referring to something pleasurable but extremely physically and socially damaging like hard drugs. Common substance addictions include caffiene (coffee, energy drinks, etc.), alcohol (beer, liquor, wine, etc.), and opiates (prescription painkillers, heroin, etc.).

Anxiety

Anxiety is a feeling of nervousness, worry, or unease that is a normal human experience. It is also present in a wide range of mental health conditions, including generalized anxiety disorder, panic disorder, and phobias. Although each of these disorders is different, they all feature distress and dysfunction specifically related to anxiety and fear.

Autism

Autism is a (flawed and largely arbitrary) diagnosis assigned to people with certain combinations of personality and neurological traits. People who qualify as autistic are given the label "neurodivergent" while people who don't are generally labelled as "neurotypical" (unless they have some other neurological diagnosis).

Depression

Hallucination

Happiness

Memory

Mindfulness

OCD

OCD stands for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, and is characterized by obsessions, compulsions, or both. Obsessions are recurring, persistent, unwanted, anxiety-provoking, intrusive ideas, images, or urges. Compulsions (also called rituals) are certain actions or mental acts that people feel driven to perform repeatedly, to try to lessen or prevent the anxiety caused by the obsessions. Related disorders include: Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD), Hoarding Disorder, Hair-Pulling Disorder (Trichotillomania), Skin-Picking (Excoriation) Disorder, Body-Focused Repetitive Behavior Disorder, and Olfactory Reference Disorder.

PTSD

PTSD, or Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, is a diagnosis that is used in cases where people had a traumatic event happen in adulthood (like taking part in a violent battle, or having a car accident). Symptoms include flashbacks, anxiety, depression, insomnia, social withdrawal and explosive emotions, among other things.
Another, second of form of PTSD is Complex PTSD (or CPTSD) which is caused by chronic, ongoing exposure to emotional or physical trauma, such as living through a war, being in an abusive relationship, or growing up neglected or abused.

Stress