User:Becha/mental-health-help
Contents
Mental Health Help Providers and Tips
(Compiled in March-November 2021)
Short Personal Story (SPS) in Three Letter Acronyms (TLA)
Since Y2K I have had RSI, which came back during COVID-19; so I did EFT, CBD, MBSR, ASMR & yoga. I’ve self-dx with C-PTSD in 2017; in the past I’ve done CBT and EFT, but what helped the most was NVC, EMDR and SSRI / SNRI (Zoloft)! I have family members that are ND: ADHD, BPD, LGBTQ* and OCD, and sometimes I am myself one or all of those labels too!
Resources
As written up in:
- Physical & Mental Resilience (March 2021)
https://labs.ripe.net/author/becha/ripe-community-resilience-physical-layer/
- Embrace Neurodiversity (May 2021)
https://labs.ripe.net/author/becha/ripe-community-resilience-embracing-neurodiversity/
- Nature is Healing (May 2021)
https://labs.ripe.net/author/becha/ripe-community-resilience-nature-is-healing/
- Economy of Care (July 2021)
https://labs.ripe.net/author/becha/ripe-community-resilience-economy-of-care/
On this wiki:
- https://wiki.techinc.nl/User:Becha/BeyondResilience#The_Hologram
- https://wiki.techinc.nl/User:Becha/COVID-19#Mental_Health
- https://wiki.techinc.nl/Hackers_tribes#Emotional_Healing
- video: "Technical Communities Resilience", NLNOG, September 2021 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ycrl7NI8sOY
- & slides https://www.nlnog.net/static/nlnogday2021/pandemic_resilience.pdf
- other slides: https://wiki.techinc.nl/images/1/1a/Mental-health-cyber-psychology-march-2022-compressed.pdf
Personal contacts
- From "2019: A year of Loving-Kindness" (end-March 2020)
https://becha.home.xs4all.nl/2019-year-of-loving-kindness.pdf
MD: Maike, Dr. Bakker, Dr. Lerhman, Ljubica Psych: Monica, Liddy, Debby, Doris; Physical: Simone, Anita, Martina, John, Chico, Erik, Marius… NVC/MBSR: Mirjam, Yoram, Berit, Trond…
Group Activities: lessons, workshops
NVC : https://www.connecting2life.net/ , https://mirjamschulpen.nl/ ,
mindfulness MBSR: https://thrivinglife.eu/free-resources/
breath-work (Wim Hoff)
yoga
Brane's group in Hoofdorp: Mental Resilience Activities https://www.bit.ly/mras21
Communities
Paid Services
these are often covered by health insurance!
somatic therapy: https://www.lidyevertsen.nl/
physiotherapy (Surinameplein, MarnixBad, Aker: https://fysiotherapiedeaker.nl/)
massage e.g. https://www.massage-bleeker.nl/
acupuncture e.g. https://priktijk.nl/
chiropractic intervention e.g. https://chiropractie-amsterdam.nl/
Alexander Technique : https://tomsterdam.com/ , https://www.smartbody.nl/
!!!Therapy!!!
EMDR! https://wiki.techinc.nl/DIY-EMDR :)
Online Therapy
In Dutch
https://www.mijnihelp.nl/online-zelfhulp/
https://www.jellinek.nl/familie-en-omgeving/naasten/aanbod-online/
https://www.psyq.nl/somatiek-psyche
https://www.psyq.nl/contact/aanmelden
Solo practices
Alexander Technique = lying on the floor :)
NVC = self-empathy && NVC Resources
crying = grieving, mourning for the needs not met
laughing = celebrating the needs met
mindfulness
breath-work
meditation with an app,
walking while listening to audio-books
taking supplements : probiotics, vitamin, minerals, CBD, St. Jan's , natural "statins", detox stuff...
being on a low-carbs diet (no sugar, no alcohol)
ROLLER-SKATING
moving: ice-skating, walking, roller-blading, cycling, swimming, jumping on the trampoline, hoollaa-hooping...
EFT (tapping) = Emotional Freedom Technique (with or without an app)
ASMR (sensory soothing: touch, sounds, smells, warm/freshness, textures...)
cold shower?!?!
swimming!!!
being in touch with nature: walking outside, tending plants, petting cats & other animals... https://wiki.techinc.nl/User:Becha/nature_Amsterdam
psychedelics
"The Work" (Byron Katie)
journaling ("spiritual autolysis": "Just write down what you know is true, or what you think is true, and keep writing until you’ve come up with something that *is* true." — Jed McKenna )
float tank
SPA!!! https://wiki.techinc.nl/User:Becha/spa
Reading
- From Surviving to Thriving
- Thousands Names for Joy
- Unfuck Your Intimacy
- The Dispossessed
- The Willow Tree, Hubert Selby
- Everything from Brene Brown, Esther Parel, Harriet Lerner
- "How to keep house while drowning"
- NVC Books -> https://wiki.techinc.nl/User:Becha/NVC
Apps
PTSD Coach; Insight Timer; Mandala; SWZ Mindfulness;
Audible; Spotify; Kindle;
Games
- Card Game by Oatmeal https://theoatmeal.com/blog/horrible_therapist_game
- amazon
- Board game: Skyldfri Sone (... zone)
- Empathic Wisdom cards (Jenifer Kumer)
Misc
Community Health Village: https://www.digitalrights.community/blog/2021-community-health-village
4.11.2021 Session "Understanding & Designing your Mental Health Plan".
- Download slide deck from CryptPad: https://cryptpad.fr/file/#/2/file/7kzCYmi713cHHcidg92KUDgF/
- Notes from session: https://internetfreedomfestival.org/wiki/index.php/Understanding_%26_Designing_your_Mental_Health_Plan
- Self-care assessment worksheet: https://www.therapistaid.com/worksheets/self-care-assessment.pdf
- Mental Health Maintenance Plan: https://www.therapistaid.com/worksheets/mental-health-maintenance-plan.pdf
- Ayesha Khan: Our distress & mental health issues are not caused by biological defects: It’s colonialism, not chemical imbalances https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/ayesha-khan-our-distress-mental-health-issues-are-not-caused-by-biological-defects?v=1705441625
ADHD
- Comic form: https://www.adhddd.com/
- Game form: https://philome.la/jace_harr/you-feel-like-shit-an-interactive-self-care-guide/play/index.html
Art 2024
- therapeutic art project: using online "safety signs" generator to produce affirmations (for nurturing myself) and warnings (for breaking my own patterns, and for protecting myself (mostly form myself)).
