FREE MENTAL HEALTH RECOVERY RESOURCES

This blog and my reaching remission are fully founded in the online writers who selflessly shared their stories, educational sources, and free resources and support groups. Here is an information dump on how to access free resources without needing to use social media.

Nonprofits with free mental health recovery resources

• LGBTQ+ students, educators, and allys: GLSN

• LGBTQ+ youth: The Trevor Project

• Eating Disorder treatment for underinsured individuals: Project Heal and ANAD

• Eating disorder recovery groups: Alsana and AKEDA (Alaska only)

• Substance Use Disorder support groups for loved ones: Al-anon and alateen

• Sexual assault groups (NYC): Free resource

Perfectionism recovery

Try a list of affirmations. If you think that's cheesy I get it, but when I started to write them down every morning they eventually stuck to the point I no longer felt it was just some hoax people swear by.

• Stop Perfectionism: 5 Techniques to be Happy with Good Enough

• 34 affirmations for when perfectionism makes you feel inadequate

Know you aren't alone

• Stop trying to be productive - The New York Times

• How did happiness become a matter of relentless, competitive work? - Aeon

Eating disorder recovery continued

Youtube

• Recovered Bakes

• Follow the Intuition

Please tread with caution, I know it can be triggering to see videos of food/body/etc. I tend to stick to the purely informational videos and I never ever as a rule watch what-I-eat-in-a-day or body transformation-like videos.

Blogs

• Tabitha Ferrar (she's absolutely hilarious -- her piece on extreme hunger is my favorite recovery article of all time. I will never not love this story

• Psychology Today (Emily Troscianko) -- I love how scientific Emily is and how she uses facts and statistics to break difficult concepts down

Books

I found the language in following books slightly outdated for how our vocabulary has around relationships with body and food freedom has collectively evolved in 2023. They are classic recs nonetheless and can usually be found at your local library:

• "Eating in the Light of the Moon"

• "Life Without Ed"

Please share with anyone who may benefit from this, or post in the comments if you know of any reputable free resources. Help is available.