• The Noonday Demon

The Noonday Demon, written by Andrew Solomon is perhaps the only book you would need to read to understand clinical depression. Sure, it is pretty much impossible to understand the nature of the illness without suffering from it, but The Noonday Demon comes pretty darn close. The book is not an easy read by any means, but it delves into and dissects an often misunderstood illness to great effect.

 

You can buy it here.

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• The Emotional Wellness Toolkit

The National Institutes of Health has put together an emotional wellness toolkit to help you manage your emotions, reduce stress, and even provide you with important techniques to practice mindfulness. More than just providing resources to help people cope, it has a lot of educational material as well, that will help anyone forge a deeper understanding of complex issues like PTSD and Sleep Disorders.

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• The Alternative Story Mental Health Resource List

Getting the necessary help we need for our mental health isn’t a luxury provided to everyone, especially right now in the middle of a lockdown. The Alternative Story put together a list of mental health practitioners willing to provide assistance to people free of cost. In exceptionally trying times like these, a resource like this is absolutely worth its weight in gold.

 

Check out their website here.

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• Marconi Union – Weightless

What if I told you that you could reduce any feelings of anxiety you may be having by 65% in 8 minutes? Well, that’s very possible if you listen to Weightless by Marconi Union. Dreampad Sleep shared a list of the 10 tracks scientifically proven most effective to reduce stress and anxiety.

 

We put them together for you. Check out the playlist here.

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• Daily Affirmations

Everyone may not be on board with the idea of daily affirmations, but I speak from personal experience when I say they work. Whether you are struggling or not, odds are there are certain things you want to improve or work on. I adopted a different approach for daily affirmations. Instead of just remembering certain phrases, I wrote down 5 of them on post-its and pasted them on my bathroom mirror. I looked at them every time I entered the loo, and over time, began internalizing the affirmations. In a matter of weeks, I saw my behavior adapt according to my expectations from the affirmations, so today I can say, it really works.

 

So here are a few mental health resources we decided to compile. We deliberately kept this list short because we want to expand it based on what works for you! So comment or get in touch with us and share some of the resources you have been using, and we’ll add them here!