Helpful Free Resources

People often find their way to Tiny Buddha when they are struggling with something difficult and potentially overwhelming. Many may feel lost, alone, and uncertain if they can be helped, or where to turn.

If this sounds like you, you may want to utilize one of the free resources listed below. You may also want to join the Tiny Buddha forums to gain insight, support and encouragement from the whole community.

You are not alone—we are here to help!

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Support for Alcoholism and Addiction

Addiction Center
A comprehensive addiction information hub; provides reviews of treatment centers to help you choose the best one for you.

RehabCenter.net
The web’s most comprehensive guide to quality rehab centers and addiction treatment. Connects you to treatment based on you and your needs.

Addiction Self Assessments (Drugs & Alcohol)
These simple self-tests from the American Addiction Centers – National Rehab Directory are intended to help you determine if you need help with drug addiction or alcoholism.

Recovery.org
Informative site offering videos, forums, helplines, support groups, and blogs.

Sober Recovery Forum
A community forum for those recovering from alcoholism and drug addiction.

Rethinking Drinking Worksheets and Calculators
Tools to check your drinking patterns, track your drinking, and plan for change.

About My Drinking and Other Drug Use Screening Tool
Allows you to compare your usage to others who’ve completed the screening; also, provides you with information on the financial and health impact of your current drinking levels and rates your risk of alcohol-related harm.

Questions to Ask Treatment Programs
A comprehensive booklet that will help you decide which treatment program is right for a child or young adult struggling with drug addiction or alcoholism.

Continuing Care
A parent’s guide to your teen’s recovery from substance abuse.

National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and NIDA for Teens
Organization offering information and resources for drug abuse.

National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)
Organization offering information and resources for alcohol abuse and alcoholism.

Alcoholics Anonymous (AA)
Support group for alcoholics.

Narcotics Anonymous (NA)
Support group for addictions related to drugs (not one in particular).

Drug & Alcohol Treatment Hotline 1-800-662-HELP

Support for Anxiety/Panic Disorder

Anxiety and Depression Association of America
Offers help with finding treatment options and support groups in your area.

ADAA Reviewed Mental Health Apps
Apps for preventing and relieving anxiety or panic attacks.

Anxiety Center Self Test
Take this short self-quiz to see if you have an anxiety disorder.

Healthy Place Panic Attack Test
A test to help determine whether you are suffering from panic attacks and should seek professional help.

National Institute of Mental Health
Offers insight into causes, signs and symptoms, who is at risk, diagnosis, treatments, and living with both panic disorder and anxiety disorder.

Anxiety Forum
A global community for anxiety sufferers.

American Psychological Association
Site includes research on anxiety, getting help, psychology news, and helpful books pertaining to the illness.

Psychology Tools Worksheets for Panic
Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) worksheets to help you deal with panic.

Panic Disorder Information Hotline 1– 800-64-PANIC

Support for Cancer

Cancer Support Community
An international non-profit dedicated to providing support, education, and hope to people affected by cancer. Cancer Support Helpline 1-888-793-9355.

Dana Farber Cancer Institute
Support groups, geared to specific cancers and methods of treatment, give patients the opportunity to meet and share information and moral support.

Cancer Hope Network
Matches cancer patients or family members with trained volunteer cancer survivors who have undergone and recovered from a similar cancer experience.

Cancer.net
Provides timely, comprehensive information to help patients and families make informed health care decisions.

Cancer Prediction Tools
Researchers at Memorial Sloan Kettering have pioneered the use of prediction tools known as nomograms to help patients and physicians make important treatment decisions.

Happy Chemo
Also offers freebies, discounts, and resources for cancer patients.

4^th Angel
The 4th Angel Mentoring Program offers free, one-on-one, confidential outreach and support from someone who has successfully made the same journey you are about to begin—the journey towards recovery.

Cancer Horizons – Free Stuff
Features a list of free products and services for cancer patients.

American Cancer Society Hotline 1-800-227-2345

Support for Caregivers

Caregiving.com
A community of family caregivers sharing stories, support, and suggestions; offers blogs, forums, groups, quizzes, podcasts, videos, webinar, and coaching

Caregiver Action Network
Non-profit organization providing education, peer support, and resources to family caregivers across the country free of charge.

CaregiverStress.com
Resources to help you care for your senior loved one while helping you spot signs of stress on your emotional and stressful caregiving journey.

Caring.com
Offers caregiving tips, advice, and support through online support groups.

Eldercare Locator
A public service of the U.S. Administration on Aging connecting you to services for older adults and their families.

Aging Care Caregiver Support Forum
A place where you can ask questions, give answers, exchange messages, and get support from other family caregivers who understand exactly what you’re going through.

AARP Caregiving Resource Center
Information, tools, and tips for caregivers.

Support for Codependency

Co-Dependents Anonymous
A fellowship of men and women whose common purpose is to develop healthy relationships. Offers a list of patterns and characteristics as a tool to aid in self-evaluation.

Online CoDA
A twelve-step recovery group that offers scheduled meetings in a chat room, and a forum message board.

Health Boards
A message board to share your experiences with codependency.

Positive Psychology – Codependency Information and Self Assessments
Research, studies, signs, treatments, tests, worksheets and more for codependency information and help.

Assignments to Jump Start Codependency Recovery
Information, affirmations, and exercise to help you overcome codependency.

Therapist Aid – Codependency Worksheets
Therapeutic worksheets search guide to help you cope with codependency patterns.

Support for Depression

Psych Central Depression Screening Test
Brief online automated quiz to help you determine if you may need to see a mental health professional for diagnosis and treatment of depression, or for tracking your depression on a regular basis.

Depression Forums
Offers a caring, safe environment for members to talk to their peers about depression, anxiety, mood disorders, medications, therapy, and recovery.

Depression Understood
Offers forums, links, and chat rooms for peer support.

Helpguide.org
Coping tips to overcome depression.

ManTherapy.org
Tools and resources helpful in treating men’s depression and other mental health issues.

Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance
Education, wellness tools, and peer support.

Psychology Tools Worksheets for Depression
Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) worksheets to help you deal with depression.

Families for Depression Awareness
A national nonprofit organization helping families recognize and cope with depression and bipolar disorder to get people well and prevent suicides.

Postpartum Support International
Dedicated to helping women suffering from perinatal mood and anxiety disorders, including postpartum depression.

Contact Crisis line 1–972-233-2233

Support for Domestic Violence

Psych Central Domestic Violence Screening Quiz
Helps you determine if you might need professional help to deal with a domestic violence or abusive relationship situation.

National Network to End Domestic Violence
Works to address and respond to needs identified by victims by providing tools that strengthen advocacy and help change the way society responds to domestic violence.

Battered Women’s Justice Project
Offers training, technical assistance, and consultation on the most promising practices of the criminal and civil justice systems in addressing domestic violence.

Women’s Law
Provides legal information and support to victims of domestic violence and sexual assault.

The Survivors Forum
For women who have been affected by domestic abuse to share their experiences and to offer support to one another.

Psych Forums for Domestic Violence
Community forums where those affected by domestic violence can share stories, seek guidance, and offer support.

Domestic Violence Hotline 1- 800-799-7233

Domestic Violence Hotline/Child Abuse 1- 800-4-A-CHILD (800 422 4453)

Support for Eating Disorders

National Eating Disorder Association
Provides programs and services to give families the support they need to find answers for these life-threatening illnesses.

Something Fishy
Offers information, an interactive bulletin board where you can read letters from others who are suffering with, or in recovery from, an eating disorder; interactive online recovery games, and more.

Casa Palmera Eating Disorder Self-Assessment
The questionnaire will tell you whether or not you think you behave in a way that indicates that you have tendencies toward anorexia nervosa or bulimia nervosa.

Around the Dinner Table
Support forum for parents and caregivers of anorexia, bulimia, and other eating disorder patients.

Eating Disorder Referral and Information Center
Most comprehensive and easiest to search database of eating disorder professionals in the world.

Mirror Mirror
Education and support for anyone struggling with an eating disorder.

National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Other Eating Disorders
A non-profit dedicated to the prevention and alleviation of eating disorders.

Eating Disorder Hope
Offers education, support, and inspiration to eating disorder sufferers, their loved ones, and eating disorders treatment providers.

Eating Disorders Anonymous
A fellowship of individuals who share their experience, strength, and hope with each other that they may solve their common problems and help others to recover from their eating disorders.

FEAST (Families Empowered and Supporting Treatment of Eating Disorders)
An international organization of and for parents and caregivers to help loved ones recover from eating disorders by providing information and mutual support, promoting evidence-based treatment, and advocating for research and education to reduce the suffering associated with eating disorders.

Eating Disorders Helpline 1-800-931-2237

Support for Gambling Addiction

National Coalition on Problem Gambling
Offers resources, screening tools, and help state-by-state.

Gamblers Anonymous
A fellowship of men and women who share their experience, strength, and hope with each other so that they may solve their common problem and help others to recover from a gambling problem.

21 Steps to Stop Gambling Self-Assessment Quiz
Your self-administered gambling check-up. This short quiz asks about your gambling related activities and thoughts.

Gambling Helper
An online community, featuring forums and blogs for support and encouragement.

Gambling Support Group
Online gambling support group, 1365 members strong and growing. Posts from not only people fighting gambling addition, but from family members as well.

Gambling Therapy
Online peer support groups for text based “real time” group support from others who have been where you are, run by trained and knowledgeable facilitators.

Gam Talk
An online community for people with gambling issues to share their experiences and ideas.

Safe Harbor Compulsive Gambling Hub
Posting board and chat rooms to share your gambling recovery experiences.

National Council on Problem Gambling Hotline 1-800-522-4700

Support for Grief

Grief Share
Free recovery groups that meet weekly around the world; meetings include seminars with experts, support group discussions, and workbook-based personal study and reflection.

Grief Haven
Provides support and resources to parents and others who have lost a child; offers free newsletters, free funeral planning guides, and reader-submitted stories, videos, and poetry.

Healthful Chat
Offers a bereavement and grief peer support chat room, bereavement and grief peer support forums, and a bereavement and grief peer support social network to keep in touch with new friends made.

Grieving.com Forums
Offers online grief support for those coping with loss; forums, message boards, and chat.

National Alliance for Grieving Children
Offers online education, hosts an annual symposium on children’s grief, and maintains a national data base of children’s bereavement support programs.

The Compassionate Friends
Provides highly personal comfort, hope, and support to every family experiencing the death of a son or a daughter, a brother or a sister, or a grandchild, and helps others better assist the grieving family.

National Widowers Organization
A site that helps men grieve the loss of their wives.

Support for Infertility

Creating a Family
A nonprofit with the mission of providing unbiased accurate education and support for infertility and adoption.

The Bump
A forum for those dealing with infertility and/or undergoing IVF treatment.

RESOLVE Support Groups (Offline)
Find a peer-led or professionally led infertility support group in your area.

Adoption Services
A non-profit that offers free financial, medical, and emotional assistance and information to pregnant women and birth parents regardless of whether or not you are placing your child for adoption.

Parents Via Egg Donation
Provides an informational and supportive environment where parents and parents-to-be can learn and share information about all facets of the egg donation process.

Support for Mental Illness

Psychological Screening Tests
All quizzes are free, and most are based upon scientific research. They are instantly and automatically scored once completed, giving you immediate results.

Mental Health America
The nation’s leading community-based network dedicated to helping all Americans achieve wellness by living mentally healthier lives. Offers mental healthy screening tools and help finding treatment and support.

National Alliance on Mental Illness
The nation’s largest grassroots mental health organization. Provides support, education, awareness, advocacy, and research.

Strength of Us
An online community designed to inspire young adults impacted by mental health issues to think positive, stay strong, and achieve their goals through peer support and resource sharing.

Mental Health Service Locator
A source of information for people seeking treatment facilities in the United States or U.S. Territories for substance abuse/addiction and/or mental health problems.

Mental Health Forum
A forum that aims to be the friendliest place on the web to discuss mental health issues.

Mental Earth
Provides support for people with mental illnesses/mental disorders, those recovering and those in remission, as well as their families, friends, and mental health providers.

Authentic Happiness
Provides free resources where people can learn about positive psychology through readings, videos, research, opportunities, conferences, questionnaires with feedback, and more.

ULifeline
An anonymous, confidential, online resource center for college students seeking information about mental health.

Support for Miscarriage

Open to Hope
A non-profit organization that helps people find hope after loss.

Beloved Angels
Offers support and resources for those whose lives are touched by the tragic death of a baby through early pregnancy loss, stillbirth or newborn death.

Silent Grief
Support for all who have suffered a miscarriage and later child loss.

Miss Foundation
A community of compassion and hope for grieving families. Provides counseling, advocacy, research, education, and support.

Bereaved Parents of the USA
A non-profit that offers support, understanding, compassion, and hope for bereaved parents, grandparents, or siblings struggling to rebuild their lives after the death of their children, grandchildren, or siblings.

National Share
Provides free resources and support toward positive resolution of grief experienced at the time of, or following the death of a baby.

Hope Exchange
Offers information for those who have been impacted by the grief of pregnancy loss. Provides educational and uplifting articles, booklets, pamphlets, books, and extensive list of resources.

Subsequent Pregnancy After a Loss Support Group
An active support network, with about 400 members sharing mutual support and information regarding subsequent pregnancy.

First Candle Grief Support Line: 1-800-221-7437
For families who have experienced the death of a baby

Support for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Alliance
A group of professional and advocacy organizations that have joined forces to provide educational resources to individuals diagnosed with PTSD and their loved ones; those at risk for developing PTSD; and medical, healthcare and other frontline professionals.

Healthy Place PTSD Screening Test
Helps you determine if you have the symptoms of PTSD and whether you should seek a diagnosis or treatment from a qualified doctor or mental health professional.

National Center for PTSD
World’s leading research and educational center of excellence on PTSD and traumatic stress.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Worksheets for PTSD
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Worksheets to help you deal with PTSD.

My PTSD
Provides basic information, references, and online support for those struggling with PSTD and their loved ones.

Give An Hour
A non-profit providing free mental health services to U.S. Military personnel and families affected by the current conflict in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Helpline – Helping Someone with PTSD
Resource for assisting someone experiencing PTSD symptoms.

Kidshealth – For Parents of a Child with PTSD
Information for parents whose children have PTSD and how to recognize signs and navigate symptoms.

Vet Wives Living with PTSD
A message board offering support for those who love a veteran with combat PTSD.

Support for Sexual Abuse Survivors

RAINN (Rape, Abuse, and Incest National Network)
The nation’s largest anti-sexual violence organization; offers a hotline, information, and help finding support.

Adult Survivors of Childhood Abuse
An international support group program for adult survivors of neglect, physical, sexual, and/or emotional abuse. Offers community, provider, and web-based support group, along with Survivor to Thriver workbooks.

After Silence
Support groups, message board, forums, and chat room for rape, sexual assault, and sexual abuse survivors.

Support for Partners
Partners of survivors who have joined the forums find support, understanding, and ideas for improving their situation from other partners.

Pandora’s Project
A non-profit dedicated to providing information, support, and resources to survivors of rape and sexual abuse and their friends and family.

Male Survivor
Provides critical resources to male survivors of sexual trauma and all their partners in recovery by building communities of hope, healing, and support.

Safe Horizon
The nation’s leading victim assistance organization; provides support, prevents violence, and promotes justice for victims of crime and abuse, their families, and communities.

Sexual Assault Hotline  1-800-656-4673

Support for Self-Injury

Self-Injury Outreach and Support
Provides information, resources, and online videos for anyone who has self-injured, who has recovered, or who knows someone who self-injures.

The Adolescent Self-Injury Foundation
A non-profit organization created for the purpose of offering hope in the recovery process for the adolescent and young adult self-injurers and their family.

Recover Your Life
Articles, forums, chat, and live help to find the support you need, any day at any time.

Self-Injury (Information only—not a crisis line) 1-800-DONT CUT (1-800-366-8288)

Support for Stress

The American Institute of Stress
A non-profit organization that imparts information on stress reduction, stress in the workplace, effects of stress, and various other stress related topics.

Stress Management Society
A non-profit organization that offers various tools and resources to help you better recognize stress and develop strategies to deal with it.

Global Organization for Stress
Offers a free and paid membership; free membership includes the guide “101 Ways to Less Stress,” regular blog posts, and regular weekly email tips for stress management and relief.

Stress Management Worksheets
Downloaded printable stress worksheets to help you identify your causes of stress, find healthy coping skills to deal with stress, and find ways to take care of yourself physically and emotionally to better withstand stress.

Mind Tools Stress Management Techniques
Offers action-based strategies, perception-based strategies, and many other coping strategies and tools.

Harvard Health Resources
Free tools to help you cope with stress.

Psyber Guide Mental Health Apps Guide
A mental health app guide that shows ratings such as credibility, user experience, and more for apps related to stress and other topics, as well as which devices support which apps. Professional reviews provided, and you can filter by cost and find free apps.

Stress Relief Games
A great collection of hand-picked games suitable for keeping your thoughts away from stressful and annoying things.

Support for Suicidal Thoughts/Coping with Loss by Suicide

Suicide.org
Suicide prevention, awareness, and support.

American Foundation for Suicide Prevention
Understanding and preventing suicide through research, education, and advocacy.

National Suicide Prevention Lifeline
Provides free and confidential emotional support to people in suicidal crisis or emotional distress: 1-800-273-TALK.

Alliance of Hope
Provides healing support for people coping with the shock, excruciating grief, and complex emotions that accompany the loss of a loved one to suicide.

The Trevor Project
The leading national organization providing crisis intervention and suicide prevention services to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning (LGBTQ) young people. Hotline: 1-866-488-7386

Trans Lifeline

A grassroots hotline and non-profit organization offering direct emotional and financial support to trans people in crisis. For the trans community, by the trans community.

Suicide & Crisis Hotline  1-800-999-9999 / Adolescent Suicide Hotline 1- 800-621-4000

*The resources listed on this page are not affiliated with Tiny Buddha, and this page does not serve as an official endorsement. They may or may not help. Please utilize these resources at your own discretion.