Mental Health Resources

About our resources

The articles, videos, exercises, and online resources below have been picked by our staff to provide information for students interested in self-help strategies, and support for students.

Topics

Alcohol & other drugs (AOD)

• How to Manage Drug or Alcohol Issues
• Understanding the Mental Health and Drinking Connection
• Online alcohol assessment
• Alcohol and Sleep

Anger

• Tips for managing anger
• Understanding Anger
• Tips for coping with anger (PDF)
• Anger is a secondary emotion (the “anger iceberg”)

Anxiety

• Understanding anxiety disorders
• Tips for managing and overcoming anxiety
• Anxiety introduction / self-help
• Test anxiety booklet (PDF)
• Understanding intrusive thoughts

Autism spectrum

• College guide for students on the spectrum online handbook
• The world needs all kinds of minds (TED talk by Temple Grandin)

Bipolar

• Coping with bipolar disorder online workbook
• How to stop being overwhelmed by depression or mania- free online course
• Bipolar questionnaire (PDF)
• Understanding Bipolar Disorder
• How to cope with sadness and depressive feelings

Depression

• 10 tips for dealing with depression in college
• Coping with depression online workbook
• Depression- The secret we share (TED talk)
• How to get stuff done when you’re depressed (TED talk)
• 9 ways to talk yourself out of unnecessary guilt
• Understanding depression and depressive disorders

Emotion regulation

• What is therapy and will it work
• How to feel about your feelings
• How to avoid absorbing other people’s emotions
• Achieving “Wise Mind"
• Alternatives to self-harm
• Tears: What are they, why we cry, and more

Grief

• Grief support website
• Coping with grief or loss
• Coping with grief during holidays
• Anticipatory grief
• How to deal with grief and loss
• Understanding grief

Happiness & well-being

• 4 steps to adding joy to your life
• The power of joy in difficult times
• Gratitude Journaling
• The surprising science of happiness (TED talk)
• What makes a good life? Lessons from the longest study on happiness (TED talk)

Homesickness / New student transition

• What happens to your mind and body when you feel homesick
• 10 ways for college students to survive being homesick

Internet/ technology/ video game addiction

• Smartphone addiction
• Mental health benefits of taking a break from social media
• Why our screens make us less happy (TED talk)
• The psychology of video game addiction
• Understanding social media use and balance
• Understanding social comparison on social media

LGBTQ+

• The Trevor Project support center
• We’re all hiding something (TED talk re: coming out)
• Understanding sexual orientation
• Understanding gender identity

Men & mental health

• The good men project website
• Countering what it means to “be a man"

OCD

• Understanding obsessive compulsive disorder
• Understanding anxious feelings
• OCD guide for college students (PDF)
• Explaining exposure for OCD

Perfectionism

• Perfectionism vs. healthy striving
• 14 signs of perfectionism
• Overcoming perfectionism
• Princeton professor’s CV of failures
• 3 things I wish I knew about perfectionism in my 20s

Procrastination

• The procrastination equation
• How to break the procrastination doom loop

Self-compassion

• Why self-compassion is healthier than self-esteem
• Trauma and self-compassion
• Building self- compassion online workbook
• Self-compassion videos

Sexual Assault

• Recovering from sexual violence
• Why many rape victims don’t fight or yell
• How to cope with psychological trauma
• How to cope with traumatic events

Suicide

• Suicide Prevention Lifeline (national)
• How suicide deceives
• Stories of hope and recovery
• Suicide safety plan app
• Understanding suicidal thoughts
• When you’re worried about a friend who doesn’t want help
• What to do when you’re feeling hopeless or thinking about suicide

Trauma

• Understanding emotional trauma
• How to cope with traumatic events
• How to cope with psychological trauma
• Understanding post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
• Managing Traumatic Stress: Tips for Managing Distress Related to Hurricanes (PDF)
• Managing traumatic stress after hurricanes

Unhealthy relationships

• The National Domestic Violence Hotline
• What is domestic violence?
• Healthy relationships spectrum
• How to identify and cope with emotional abuse
• 50 shades of gaslighting: Disturbing signs an abuser is twisting your reality
• 10 signs of an unhealthy relationship
• How to tell if you’re in an emotionally abusive relationship
• Common relationships problems and how to deal with them
• How to create and maintain healthy relationships
• How to safely end unhealthy relationships