Sites run by experts (people with mental illness)
United States:
A great example of an artist with bipolar living (and producing) abundantly www.recoverythroughart.com
Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance (US) : www.dbsalliance.org
Bipolar Focus Moodswing www.moodswing.org
Bipolar Brain: www.bipolarbrain.com
Pendulum Resources (US) www.pendulum.org
McMan's Depression and Bipolar Web: www.mcmanweb.com
Support and information for mood disorders Walkers in Darkness www.walkers.org
Other places:
Australian Mental Health Consumer Network www.amhcn.com.au
Balance (NZ) www.balance.org.nz
Charity, advocacy and research bodies
National Institute of Mental Health (USA): www.nimh.nih.gov
SANE Australia: www.sane.org
SANE UK www.sane.org.uk
Mental Health Foundation (UK): www.mentalhealth.org.uk
Manic Depressive Fellowship (UK) :www.mdf.org.uk
For young people
Australian site for young people's well-being and mental health (http://www.reachout.com.au)Australian site specially for young people in families affected by mental illness (http://www.itsallright.org/ )US site devoted to teen health http://www.your-teenhelp.com/bipolar.html
Commercial Resources and Books
Light therapy and bipolar disorder: Apollo Health have some sound information
A Lifelong Journey, by (sufferer) Dr Sarah Russell (Australian) www.researchmatters.net/ .
Understanding Depression by Maria Prendergast (Australian) SANE Book of the Year 2006 publisher - Penguin
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