The super special self-care masterpost (mirror)

[marnanel]

This is a mirror of http://deathshands.tumblr.com/post/101291574012 . I'm reposting it here, with apologies to the original poster deathshands, because their formatting makes the post almost impossible to read on my computer, and when I've shared it with friends they've often said similarly. That's a shame, because it's a useful post. -- Marn

photo: Steve Hillebrand, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, public domain

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I would like to welcome you all to my super special self-care masterpost for all of you super special cuties out there! Unfortunately, it’s common to dislike ourselves and feel a little lower than usual. When that happens, it can be very difficult for us to acknowledge our worth! But never fear my darlings, because here are many ways to look after yourself, even if you’re feeling a little down. Best wishes and lots of love! ♥♥♥

Dealing with depression and feeling suicidal

• Dealing with depression
• 6 Steps for beating depression
• 100 reasons not to commit suicide 


• 50 things to love about life that are free


• The best things in life that are free


• 40 breathtaking places to see before you die


• 101 most beautiful places to visit before you die
• How to help a suicidal person


• Reasons to stay alive blog


• Adjusting your life for recovery


• Natural treatment for depression


• Tempted to quit antidepressants? 

Relievers for depression and feeling suicidal 

• The Thoughts Room


• The Dawn Room


• The Comfort Spot


• It will be okay


• Make everything okay


• Emergency compliment


• Changing your life


• Gives me hope


• KittenCam


• PuppyCam


• omfgdogs


• Cat training

Depression and suicide hotlines/chatrooms 

• Australia
• beyondblue
• Helplines across Australia 
• LifeLine: 13 11 14
• Australian hotlines
• USA 
• US and UK helplines
• National Suicide Prevention Lifeline
• Teen health and wellness helplines
• Hotline list
• US hotlines (per state)
• UK
• US and UK helplines
• National links UK
• Mental health helplines 
• Support line UK
• DepressionAlliance
• UK suicide hotlines
• Canada 
• Mental health helpline
• Suicide prevention across Canada
• Canada suicide hotlines
• Worldwide
• CrisisChat
  
• IMAlive 
• 7 cups of tea
• BlahTherapy
• Mental health chatrooms
• Worldwide suicide hotlines

Dealing with self harm 

• Stopping self harm


• 20 reasons to give up self harm


• Deciding to stop self-injury


• Self harm information booklet


• Limiting the damage of self harm


• fataltotheflesh *trigger warning*


• Alternatives to self harm


• 146 things to do besides self harm


• 25 alternatives to self harm


• Make a happy box


• Basic care for open wounds and burns


• Self harm safety


• Caring for self harm wounds


• Caring for cuts


• Caring for burns


• Fading and covering scars

Dealing with grief and loss

• Grief and loss
• Grief and loss + resources
• Loss & grief
• Coping with grief
• Grief and depression
• Coping with grief and loss
• Coping with grief and loss
• Coping with grief and loss
• Living with grief and loss
• Coping with change after a loss
• Coping with the loss of a loved one
• Coping with the loss of a loved one
• Coping with the loss of your loved one
• Dealing with the loss of a loved one
• Coping with the loss of a parent
• Helping yourself heal when a parent passes
• How to deal with a parent’s passing
• How to deal with a friend’s passing
• When you lose a teen friend
• Losing someone to suicide
• Suicide grief
• Dealing with anger and guilt after suicide
• Ten tips on coping with pet loss
• Coping with pet loss
• Understand pet loss grief
• Grieving for a lost pet + helplines
• Supporting a grieving person
• Helping children deal with grief and loss
• Helping teenagers cope with grief and loss
• Helping a student who lost a friend or family member to suicide

Dealing with loneliness and break-ups 

• How to move on from someone you’re in love with
• The nicest place on the internet


• Brownie in a mug recipe


• Comfort food recipes


• Movie masterposts


• 7 reasons why it’s okay if you’ve never been in a relationship


• Getting over a break up


• 6 healthy ways to get over a break up


• When you’re the only one not in a relationship


• 27 perks of being single


• 6 scientifically proven perks of being single


• More perks for singles


• Is your friend dating your ex?


• 10 more ideas to help with loneliness 


• 10 things to do when you feel lonely


• 23 things you can do when you’re lonely


• Dealing with loneliness


• Making friends


• Becoming a magnet for friends


• How to cope when you feel left out by friends

Dealing with anxiety and stress

• Treatment and care for anxiety


• Dealing with panic attacks


• Overcoming panic attacks


• Progressive muscle relaxation


• 3 effective anxiety breathing exercises


• Anxiety relief


• Overcoming OCD


• 10 things you need to know to overcome OCD
• How to cope with OCD
• Strategies for managing OCD
• Managing OCD at home
• How to deal with OCD 

Distractions/ Relievers for anxiety and stress 

• Stress relief games


• Rain sounds


• Nature sounds


• Ocean sounds


• Coffee sounds


• More calming sounds


• Paint with sand


• Stress relievers


• The Quiet Place


• 90 seconds relaxation exercise


• Weave silk


• Rainy day simulator


• Create your own forest

Audio meditation techniques

• Progressive muscle relaxation meditation
• Progressive muscle relaxation with music
• Guided meditation and progressive muscle relaxation
• Walk along the beach visualisation 
• Guiding imagery: ocean escape
• Forest walk 
• Guided forest meditation
• Sleep meditation
• Guided meditation for sleep: floating among the stars
• Journey to the stars: 1 hour sleep meditation
• Relaxing music with water sounds meditation - 3 hours
• Forest rain and birds - 5 hours
• Waterfalls and bird songs - 8 hours
• Ocean sounds- 11 hours

Dealing with bipolar disorder/ manic depression

• Helping your loved one through a manic episode


• Helping a loved one with bipolar disorder


• Dealing with bipolar mania: help for caregivers


• 7 ways to deal with a manic depressive person


• Dealing effectively with depression and manic depression


• Simple tricks to deal with anxiety and mania


• 5 tips for coping with mania


• Coping skills for bipolar disorder


• 50 natural ways to manage and cope with bipolar disorder


• 10 small steps you can  take to improve bipolar disorder

Dealing with hallucinations and schizophrenia 

• Helping a person with schizophrenia 


• Treatment and recovery for schizophrenia 


• 60 methods for coping with hallucinations


• Helping someone cope with hallucinations


• Coping with schizophrenic hallucinations and delusions 


• 5 ways to quiet auditory hallucinations


• A practical guide to cope with hearing voices


• Helping people who hear voices


• Strategies for coping with distressing voices

Dealing with eating disorders

• Why do we have to eat?


• Why you should eat often + strategies 


• The reality of anorexia and bulimia 


• Recovering from an eating disorder


• Recovery and relapse prevention


• The dangers of diet pills and laxatives


• the dangers of laxative abuse


• Physical effects of an eating disorder


• Recovery toolbox


• Milestones in recovery


• Understanding recovery


• Making a recovery meal plan


• What to do when you feel fat
• Inpatient services (Australia)
• Treatment centers (USA)
• Treatment centers (Worldwide)
• Online treatment program
• Eating recovery center website
• Different treatment settings 
• Treatment settings


• Confidential eating disorder screening 

Dealing with anger 

• Managing anger


• Controlling anger


• Dealing with anger and impulsivity  


• Dealing with criticism


• Gruntle.me


• Click rocks


• Bouncy balls

Dealing with insomnia/sleep deprivation 

• What time should I sleep?


• Calculating the perfect bedtime + sleep efficiency 


• 42 simple tips to deal with insomnia


• 10 tips to beat insomnia 


• How to make yourself so tired that you’ll fall asleep


• 11 ways to get to sleep and stay asleep


• Trick yourself into dozing off


• Natural remedies to help sleep


• Natural remedies for sleep apnea


• Restoring restful sleep


• 10 steps to recovering from insomnia 


• Recover after a sleepless night


• How to fix snoring


• How to pull an all nighter and still do well in an exam


• Health benefits of sleep


• Why sleep is so important

Sleep meditation audio

• Sleep meditation
• Guided meditation for sleep: floating among the stars
• Journey to the stars: 1 hour sleep meditation

Dealing with Borderline Personality Disorder

• Finding out about BPD


• More info about BPD and treatment


• Helping a loved one with BPD


• BPD Recovery


• UK services


• USA services


• More USA services


• Australian services


• Finding services for BPD help (Australia)


• BPD therapists


• Treatments for BPD


• Listed treatments for BPD


• Self-help for BPD


• Three herbs everyone with BPD should know about


• Omega-3 fish oil helps BPD


• Natural treatment for BPD


• Natural treatments for BPD


• Info about schema therapy


• DBT self-help lessons


• Everyday DBT


• Self-help course in CBT


• 10 coping skills for BPD


• Coping skills for BPD


• Living with BPD


• Mindfulness meditation resources

Dealing with sexual assault

• Helping a friend or family member who was a victim


• Coping with the after-effects of sexual assault


• Man’s guide to helping female victims


• Coping with rape


• Coping with acquaintance rape


• Coping with rape-related PTSD


• Dealing with rape


• UK helplines for male survivors 


• UK male survivors 


• When a man is raped (includes how to help victims)


• Understanding and helping male survivors


• Survivors Chat

Dealing with domestic violence and abuse 

• Steps to take if you are a victim of family abuse


• Safe house


• Napless shelter for women and children


• YWCA women’s shelter


• Domestic violence and criminal harassment unit of the Vancouver Police Department 


• Canadian bar association- family violence


• Vancouver coastal health services


• Victims info


• Domestic violence help


• ywca domestic violence help


• domestic abuse services


• domestic violence resources

Domestic violence helplines:

• Australia:


• Women’s domestic violence helpline: telephone (08) 9223 1188 free call 1800 007 339


• Men’s domestic violence helpline: telephone (08) 9223 1199 free call 1800 000 599


• 1800RESPECT: 1800 737 732


• http://www.violencefreefamilies.org.au/help_lines


• USA


• Crisis hotline: 1-888-7HELPLINE


• Americans Overseas Domestic Violence Crisis Center: 866-USWOMEN


• Childhelp National Child Abuse Hotline: 1-800-4-A-CHILD


• http://www.thehotline.org/


• Canada


• Childhelp National Child Abuse Hotline: 1-800-4-A-CHILD


• Assaulted Women’s Helpline: GTA 416.863.0511 Toll free 1.866.863.0511 TTY 416.364.8762 Toll free TTY 1.866.863.7868 Mobile #SAFE(#7233)


• http://www.hotpeachpages.net/canada/canada1.html


• UK


• Women’s Aid: 0808 2000 247


• ManKind: http://www.mankind.org.uk/


• Worldwide


• http://www.hotpeachpages.net/

Learning to love yourself and be happy

• 21 tips to release self-neglect


• 9 ways to love yourself


• Loving yourself


• Let yourself be happier than you think you deserve


• Who to fall in love with first


• 7 reasons to shamelessly love yourself


• 5 ways to love your body


• 17 reasons to love your body just the way it is


• 20 ways to love your body


• Learning to love your body in 4 steps


• Do I deserve to be happy?


• 100 reasons to be happy


• 300 reasons to be happy

Had a hard day?

• 28 tips to relax


• Learn how to relax and sleep like a baby


• 14 ways to live a more relaxing life


• 40 ways to relax in 5 minutes


• 20 ways to relax and unwind


• Jukebox time machine


• Read any book


• Colour quiz


• Useless web


• Pointless sites


• Build a squid


• Mario sequencer 


• Seaquence


• Virtual Piano


• Spot the difference


• Internet Explorer 6


• Falling falling


• Heeeeey

Dealing with substance abuse

• 11 ways to handle substance abuse


• How to quit smoking


• Healthy alternatives to smoking


• 10 tips to quitting smoking


• 10 unusual quit-smoking tips


• Tips to help you stop smoking


• Quitting methods and what to expect- smoking


• Overcoming drug addiction


• How to beat drug addiction


• The best way to quit using drugs


• Ways to end drug addiction


• How to help a friend quit drugs


• Caring for someone with a drug problem


• Alternatives to alcohol


• Alternatives to drinking


• Alcoholism-solutions


• Alcohol abuse treatment and self-help


• How to stop drinking alcohol


• Health effects of alcohol


• Alternatives to drugs and alcohol for solving our problems

Substance abuse/alcoholism helplines

• US: National Drug Information Treatment and Referral Hotline: 1-800-662-HELP (4357)


• US: Alcohol Abuse and Crisis Intervention: 1-800-234-0246


• US: National Cocaine Hotline: 1-800-COCAINE (262-2463)


• US: Al-Anon/Alateen Hotline (for friends and family) 1-800-344-2666


• UK: Drinkline: Nat'l. Alcoholism Helpline: 0800 917 8282


• NZ: Alcohol / Drug Helpline: 0800 787 797AUS: Alcohol & Other Drugs Information Service (ADIS): Freecall 1800 131 350


• Australian helplines 


• More helplines