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Crisis Resources
If you are experiencing a crisis, call 911 or go to your nearest emergency room immediately.
✦ Boston Emergency Services Team (BEST):
For urgent support in the Boston metro area.
CALL: 1-800-981-4357
✦ Crisis Text Line:
Connect with a live crisis counselor via text messaging.
TEXT: "HOME" to 741741
✦ National Suicide and Crisis Lifeline:
CALL: 988
VISIT: chat.988lifeline.org to connect with a live crisis counselor via online chat.
✦ The Trevor Project:
Crisis counseling for LGBTQIA+ young people.
TEXT: "START" to 678-678
CALL: 1-866-488-7386
VISIT: chat.trvr.org to start an online chat.
✦ Trans Lifeline:
Confidential peer support run by trans people for trans and questioning peers.
TEXT: "START" to 678-678
VISIT: translifeline.org/hotline
CALL: 1-877-565-8860
*Not open 24/7 — check their website for hours
✦ National Maternal Mental Health Hotline:
Confidential support for pregnant or postpartum people.
CALL or TEXT: 1-833-852-6262
✦ Blackline:
Hotline geared towards the Black, Black LGBTQI, Brown, Native, and Muslim community. However, no one will be turned away from the Hotline.
CALL or TEXT: 1-800-604-5841
✦ Stronghearts Native Helpline:
Helpline for Native Americans and Alaska Natives.
CALL: 1-844-762-8483
VISIT: strongheartshelpline.org/get-help to connect with a live crisis counselor via online chat.
*Not open 24/7 — check their website for hours
✦ The Steve Fund Crisis Line:
Text line for college students.
TEXT: "STEVE" to 741741
✦ The Veteran Crisis Line:
Crisis counseling for veterans.
CALL: 988 then press 1
TEXT: 838255
VISIT: veteranscrisisline.net/get-help-now/chat to start an online chat.
✦ National Domestic Violence Hotline:
CALL: 1-800-799-7233 or 1-800-787-3224 for TTY
TEXT: "BEGIN" to 88788
VISIT: thehotline.org
If you’re unable to speak safely, you can log onto thehotline.org or text "LOVEIS" to 22522
✦ RAINN’s National Sexual Assault Hotline:
CALL: 1-800-656-4673
TEXT: "HOPE" to 64673
VISIT: rainn.org/help-and-healing/hotline to start an online chat.
Warmlines
Note, these are typically not open 24/7. Check their website for hours.
✦ Thrive Lifeline:
Chat text line for underrepresented individuals (person of color, LGBTQ2S+, person living with disabilities, neurodivergent, and/or other marginalized identities).
VISIT: thrivelifeline.org to start an online chat.
✦ Wildflower Alliance:
Peer support line, answered by a trained peer supporter who has their own first-hand experience with psychiatric diagnosis, trauma, addiction, and/or other interrupting challenges. This line does not collect personal information, perform assessments, or call crisis or the police.
CALL: 1-888-407-4515
VISIT: wildfloweralliance.org/peer-support-line
✦ Physician Support Line:
Psychiatrists helping US physicians and medical students.
CALL: 1-888-409-0141
VISIT: physiciansupportline.com
✦ Metro Boston Recovery Learning Community Peer Support Warmline:
Confidential community warmline, staffed by Certified Peer Specialists and Recovery Coaches who have their own first-hand lived experience with mental health struggles, psychiatric diagnosis, trauma, addiction, extreme emotional states, and other challenges.
CALL: 1-877-733-7563
VISIT: mbrlc.org/peer-support-line
✦ NAMI Helpline:
Confidential nationwide service that provides one-on-one emotional support, mental health information, and resources needed to tackle tough challenges that you, your family, or friends are facing.
TEXT: "NAMI" to 6264
CALL: 1-800-950-6264
VISIT: nami.org/support-education/nami-helpline
✦ Teen Line:
Peer-to-peer support from highly trained teens supervised by adult mental health professionals.
TEXT: "TEEN" to 839863
CALL: 1-800-852-8336
Databases
✦ Medline Plus – Health information library.
✦ Mayo Clinic – Database with information about a wide range of conditions and treatments.
✦ MotherToBaby – Information and free expert consultation on medications while pregnant and chestfeeding/breastfeeding.
✦ La Leche League – Information and free expert consultation on medications while pregnant and chestfeeding/breastfeeding.
Apps & Websites
✦ VA Mental Health Apps – Free apps provided through the Veterans Administration, available to anyone.
✦ Mind Apps – Comprehensive database of mental health apps.
✦ Insight Timer – Guided meditations, mindfulness practices, and sleep recordings.
✦ Daylio – Mood tracking app.
✦ Finch – App to make self-care fun.
✦ OMGYes – Sexuality.
✦ DoYogaWithMe – Free online yoga classes.
Books & Audio Books
✦ The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook: Practical DBT Exercises for Learning Mindfulness, Interpersonal Effectiveness, Emotion Regulation, and Distress Tolerance
✦ Man's Search for Meaning: Trauma recovery, existential questions, and meaning-making.
✦ The Happiness Trap: How to Stop Struggling and Start Living and Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life: The New Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: Acceptance & Commitment Therapy.
✦ The Body Keeps the Score: Learning about trauma.
✦ Breaking The Habit of Being Yourself: How to Lose Your Mind and Create a New One: Holistic healing from trauma.
✦ No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model: Healing from trauma through IFS.
✦ I am Not Sick, I Don't Need Help! How to Help Someone Accept Treatment: For families of loved ones with mental health conditions.
✦ Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents and Disentangling from Emotionally Immature People: Avoid Emotional Traps, Stand Up for Your Self, and Transform Your Relationships as an Adult Child of Emotionally Immature Parents: Healing from emotionally immature parenting.
✦ The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self: Healing from narcissistic parenting.
✦ Anchored: How to Befriend Your Nervous System Using Polyvagal Theory: Nervous system regulation.
✦ When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times: Mindfulness and spirituality.
✦ Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Presence, letting go, meditation, and spirituality.
✦ The Wise Heart: A Guide to the Universal Teachings of Buddhist Psychology: Tools for emotional healing, self-acceptance, and more informed by the intersection of Buddhism and psychology.
✦ Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself: Codependency management.
✦ When Bad Things Happen to Good People: Grief management.
✦ Getting Over OCD: A 10-Step Workbook for Taking Back Your Life: OCD management.
✦ Trans Bodies, Trans Selves: A Resource for the Transgender Community and Authentic Selves: Celebrating Trans and Nonbinary People and Their Families: Trans and gender diverse community.
✦ Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life: Life-Changing Tools for Healthy Relationships: Communication skills.
✦ Good Moms Have Scary Thoughts: A Healing Guide to the Secret Fears of New Mothers: Postpartum mood and anxiety.
✦ Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life: Women’s sexuality.
Other
✦ Support Groups and Patient Education: NAMI and Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance
✦ College Student Mental Health Information and Tips: The Mental Health Coalition
✦ Autistic Women & Nonbinary Network (AWN): AWNnetwork.org
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