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A recommended resource finder, two free courses, a short list of reading guides and our gift guides, for patients, families and anyone who wants a good place to start.
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Clinicians: send patients to psycho.farm/plan
Courses 2
Two full self-paced courses, free.
Reading guides 9
Longer plain-language pages on one problem each, with tools to try and a short video where noted.
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
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
Gift guides 4
Practical products and books to recommend, picked by condition.
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
Looking for more? The Library's Patient resources also have the rest of the reading guides, the diagnosis overviews and screeners, and the skill sheets for clinicians to hand out.