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After hours and Emergency Care Contacts

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I am unfortunately unable to be available 24 hours per day, 7 days a week. Alternate options for emergency/after hours assistance are:

• Emergency – 000

• Southern Tasmanian Mental Health Helpline - 1800 332 388

• Lifeline – 131 114

• Suicide call back service - 1300 659467

• Beyond Blue – 1300 224636

• Mensline – 1300 789  978

• Family Violence Support – 1800 608 122

• Drug Support – 1300 368 186

• QLife – 1800 184527

• Headspace 1800 650890

• Reachout au.reachout.com

• Kids Helpline – 24 hour for children/adolescents 24yo 1800 551800

Educational and Self Help Resources

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Anxiety Disorders

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The Anxiety Disorders Association of Victoria: www.adavic.org.au
Information about Panic Disorder, Social Phobia, Agoraphobia, Generalised Anxiety and Depression, and support services.

Centre for Clinical Interventions: www.cci.health.wa.gov.au/about/index.cfm
Provides great tools, resources, handouts on anxiety and mood disorders.

Anxiety Recovery Centre: www.arcvic.com.au
This website provides information about anxiety disorders, their management and links.

Reconnexion: Treating Panic, Anxiety, Depression and Tranquilliser Dependency www.pada.org.au
Information on anxiety and depression (including post-natal depression), related research and publications

Social Anxiety Australia www.socialanxiety.com.au
Information on social anxiety and panic attacks, first-hand accounts from people living with these conditions and links.

Depression

Beyond Blue the national depression initiative  http://www.beyondblue.org.au/

Moodgym https://moodgym.anu.edu.au/welcome/new/splash - mainly for adolescents and young adults

Blue Pages (depression and anxiety) http://bluepages.anu.edu.au/

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Black Dog Institute www.blackdoginstitute.org.au

Information on depression (including during and after pregnancy) and Bipolar Disorder

Clinical Research Unit for Anxiety Disorders (CRUfAD) www.crufad.org

Information about depression, anxiety and its management

SANE Australia www.sane.org

Mental health-related information, links and online help for people affected by mental illness and their families and friends.

Drug and Alcohol

Drug Info Clearinghouse www.druginfo.adf.org.au
A searchable online library with drug and alcohol-related information.

Turning Point www.turningpoint.org.au
Information about substance use - related disorders and their management and an online interactive counselling service .

The National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre (NDARC) www.ndarc.med.unsw.edu.au
Information about substance use - related disorders and their management.

National Cannabis Prevention and Information Centre http://ncpic.org.au/
Evidence based information on cannabis and related harms. Cannabis Information and Helpline (free call) 1800 30 40 50

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Grief and Loss

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SuicideLine www.suicideline.org.au
Information on why a person becomes suicidal, how to help someone who is suicidal, what to do in an emergency and how to cope with a death by suicide.

The National Association for Loss and Grief
SA: www.grieflink.asn.au         NSW: www.nalag.org.au          VIC: www.nalagvic.org.au
Information on counselling and support services, seminars, publications and links for people who are experiencing grief following the loss of someone close to them.

Australian Centre for Grief and Bereavement www.grief.org.au
Grief and bereavement related information and resources, links to websites, counselling services and a message board.  

 Emotional Regulation

Emotional Regulation and Self Harm

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The Melbourne DBT Centre provides access to a range of great resources on Dialectical Behavioural Therapy: http://melbournedbtcenter.com.au/wpress/?page_id=55

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