The following links are listed to provide you with additional online mental health care information. Please also check the additional links provided for physical health for a more comprehensive understanding of your over-all well-being. The following is not meant to be a comprehensive list, nor is it an endorsement of the content of the sites.
Mental Health Crisis Services
- Minnesota Metro Area: call **Crisis or 274747 from a mobile phone (soon to be available statewide)
- Crisis Text Line is available 24/7 – text MN to 741741
- National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 800-273-TALK (8255)
- Minnesota Mental Health Crisis and Response Phone Numbers can be located at MN Department of Human Services (listed by county): Children Mental Health Crisis | Adult Mental Health Crisis
- If this is a life-threatening emergency, please dial 911 or go to your nearest emergency room.
Associations & Institutes
- American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
- American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy
- American Counseling Association
- American Psychiatric Association
- American Psychological Association
- American Psychological Society
- Center for Mental Health Services
- Internet Mental Health
- Mental Health America
- MentalHealth.gov/
- National Institute of Mental Health
- National Mental Health Association
- National Eating Disorders Association
- National Sleep Foundation
- National Women’s Health Resource Center
- The National Child Traumatic Stress Network
- NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness)
- Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
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Addiction and Recovery
- Alcoholics Anonymous
- Alcoholics Anonymous Recovery Resources
- Center for On-Line Addiction
- Web of Addictions
Anxiety Disorders
Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Child Abuse and Domestic Violence
- Childhelp USA®
- Questions and Answers about Memories of Childhood Abuse
- The National Domestic Violence Hotline Website
Depression
- Bipolar Disorder News – Pendulum.org
- Depression and How Therapy Can Help
- Depression Screening
- Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance (DBSA)
Developmental Disorders
Diagnosis
Eating Disorders
Medication
- DrugWatch.com provides up-to-date information about prescription and over-the-counter medications, including details about associated side effects.
- Drugalert.org is a comprehensive database with information and news alerts about potentially dangerous drugs currently on the market or previously available worldwide.
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
- Beyond OCD
- Freeing Your Child from Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: A Powerful, Practical Program for Parents of Children and Adolescents by Tamar E Chansky (Book)
- International OCD Foundation
- Talking Back to OCD: The Program That Helps Kids and Teens Say “No Way” — and Parents Say “Way to Go” y John S March and Christine M Benton (Book)
- Trichotillomania Learning Center
- What to Do When Your Brain Gets Stuck: A Kid’s Guide to Overcoming OCD by Dawn Huebner and Bonnie Matthews (Book)
Personality Disorders
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
- National Center for PTSD
- Give an Hour— for veterans and their families
- National Center for PTSD Real Warriors (U.S. Department of Defense)— for veterans and their families
- The Gift From Within
- Sidran Institute
Psychiatrists
- Gerard Balan, PMHNP-BC, Plymouth Psych Group, 3021 Harbor Lane N, Suite 206, Plymouth, MN 55447, 763 559 1640
- Behavioral Health Services (BHSI), 8441 Wayzata Boulevard, Suite 140, Golden Valley, MN 55426, 651 769 6300
- Choices Psychotherapy, 715 Florida Avenue South, Suite 307, St Louis Park, MN 55426, 952 544 6806
- Dr Zvi Frankfurt, 5353 Gamble Dr #335, St Louis Park, MN 55416, 952 929 2276 ext 2 (BCBS, HealthPartners)
- Horizon Psychiatry, 21370 John Mills Drive, Suite #210, Rogers, MN 55374, 763 428 2288 (also located in Cambridge)
Suicide Awareness and Hotlines
- American Foundation for Suicide Prevention
- SAMHSA’s Suicide Prevention
- Suicide Awareness Voices of Education
- Suicide: Read This First