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Tool
Understanding BPD
Symptoms, course, treatment, and recovery in plain language. Self-paced.
Course
Mood Disorders with Dr. Jim Phelps
Complex depression, mixed states, and the bipolar spectrum. Six modules, with video.
Course
Principles of Handling Anxiety
What anxiety is, why it keeps coming back, how to face fears in small steps, and simple tools for worry, anxious thoughts, and a tense body.
Guide
Panic Attacks
What a panic attack is, why it feels so scary, what to do while one is happening, and how to stop fearing the next one.
Guide
Social Anxiety
Why the fear of being judged keeps coming back, and simple tools for getting out of your head around other people.
Guide
Health Anxiety
How checking and searching keep health worries going, and a plan for cutting back while still getting good medical care.
Guide
Sleep Control for Mood Disorders
Using regular sleep and wake times, morning light, and dark evenings to keep mood steady, with the specific lamps, glasses, and dawn simulators we recommend.
Guide
Behavioral Activation
How to get going when depression has flattened your motivation, by doing things first and letting mood catch up. In two parts.
Guide
Radical Acceptance
A DBT skill for situations you can't change and can't stand, in four steps that take about ninety seconds.
Guide
Understanding Intrusive Thoughts in OCD
Why OCD latches onto the thoughts you find most horrifying, and why arguing with them makes them stronger.
Guide
Insomnia Basics
The gas-and-brake model of sleep, and the three CBT-I tools that outperform sleeping pills in head-to-head trials.
Guide
ADHD: The Top 10 Tools
A psychiatrist's shortlist of ten practical tools, starting with one calendar and one task list. Includes a video walkthrough.
Guide
AVRT: The Addictive Voice
Learn to recognize the thoughts that argue for using as the addictive voice, and stop debating them.
Guide
The ADHD Gift Guide
Visual timers, trackers, noise control, home automation, and the books worth reading.
Gift guide
The Bipolar Gift Guide
Blue-blocking glasses, blackout curtains, dawn simulators, and sleep tracking.
Gift guide
The Depression Gift Guide
Light boxes, dawn simulators, movement, and the best CBT and ACT books.
Gift guide
The Schizophrenia Gift Guide
Adherence tools, coping supports, metabolic health, and family education.
Gift guide
Lithium: the full clinician guide
A complete prescriber's guide, unlocked from the paid library: dosing, monitoring, toxicity.
Clinician
Lithium
Blood tests, hydration, warning signs, and the interactions to watch.
PDF
Sertraline (Zoloft)
The first weeks, side effects, missed doses, and when to call.
PDF
Phenelzine (Nardil)
The tyramine food rules and the MAOI safety points, spelled out.
PDF
Depression
What the diagnosis means, doing it before you feel like it, and when to look for something else.
PDF
ADHD
Why a capable brain struggles with dull tasks, with the calendar and task list to start with.
PDF
Anxiety
Why the alarm goes off too easily, and how exposure and mindfulness retrain it.
PDF
Panic Attacks
A panic attack is a false alarm. What to do during one, and how to stop fearing the next.
PDF
Social Anxiety
The alarm is reacting to being judged. Retrain it by going, staying, and looking outward.
PDF
Bipolar Disorder
A mood condition that cycles: early warning signs, the daily rhythm checklist, and medication safety.
PDF
Schizophrenia
For patients and families: taking medication reliably, protecting your body, and staying allies.
PDF
OCD
Why fighting the thought makes it stronger, and the ERP practice that works instead.
PDF
PTSD
A stuck fear system, how trauma therapy moves it along, and what to do when you dissociate.
PDF
Borderline Personality
A diagnosis, not an identity, and one many people recover from. Skills and how to choose a therapist.
PDF
Insomnia
The gas and brake model, retraining the bed, and aiming for silver when you wake at night.
PDF
HCL-32 Hypomania Checklist
A one-page inventory of hypomanic symptoms to fill out and bring to your visit.
Screener
Modified Rapid Mood Screener
Six questions that place a depression on the bipolar spectrum, scored as a probability, not a cutoff.
Screener
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