Depression

Sunnybrook Family Navigation Project

• supporting families with youth aged 13-26
• facilitates connections and treatment providers
• sunnybrook.ca/familynavigation
  

eMentalHealth

• find mental health services, help and support in your community
• ementalhealth.ca

ConnexOntario

• health services information
• operates three helplines 24/7
• connexontario.ca

211Toronto

• service database
• 24/7 community information and referral helplines
• 211toronto.ca

Central Health Line

• links to health services
• centralhealthline.ca

Homelessness & mental health: Toronto North Support Services

• support services for vulnerable individuals on the street and in shelters
• tnss.ca

Sunnybrook Department of Psychiatry

• link for referral information
• sunnybrook.ca/psychiatry/refer

Mild to Moderate Traumatic Brain Injury Clinic

• learn about the clinic and referral information
• link to mild traumatic brain injury/concussion handbook under "Patient and Family Education"
• sunnybrook.ca/tbiclinic

Ontario Association of Suicide Prevention

• helpful links for crisis support
• educational information
• ospn.ca

Distress and Crisis Ontario

• helpful links for crisis support
• monthly newsletter
• dcontario.org

• Upcoming Support Programs Across Ontario (Mood Disorders Association of Ontario)
• Self-Help Resource Centre
• Laughing Like Crazy at MDAO (looking through difficult issues through the lens of humour; a 16 week group program)
• Wellness Recovery Action Plan (W.R.A.P.) at MDAO

• Toronto East Metro Youth Services
• Delisle Youth Services
• Oolagen

Mood Disorders Association of Ontario

• free peer support and recovery programs for patients and families
• diagnostic information
• mooddisorders.ca

Canadian Mental Health Association

• links to information and community support services
• cmha.ca

Canadian Network for Mood and Anxiety Treatments

• helpful informational links
• links to resources
• canmat.org

Academy of Cognitive Therapy

• information on CBT and mental health
• academyofct.org

Beck Institute for Cognitive Behaviour Therapy

• information on CBT
• beckinstitute.org

National Alliance on Mental Illness

• helpful links and information
• nami.org - depression information

Centre for Addiction and Mental Health

• helpful links and information
• camh.ca - depression information

Anxiety and Depression Association of America

• helpful links and information
• adaa.org

Children’s Mental Health Ontario

• helpful links and information for parents in multiple languages
• kidsmentalhealth.ca

Here to Help

• helpful information and resources for patients and families
• heretohelp.bc.ca

Helping Other Parents Everywhere (HOPE)

• support and self-help groups for parents, guardians and relatives of young adults
• hope4parents.ca

• From the Royal College of Psychiatrists
• From the National Alliance on Mental Illness
• Thomas Insel: Toward a new understanding of mental illness (TedTalks)
• How to navigate the mental health care and addiction systems (Sunnybrook)
• Mental illness: recognize the symptoms & seek help (Sunnybrook)
• Depression Among Teens (CBC News)

• First-person stories of people living with mental illness:
  • Healthexperiences.ca
  • Healthtalk.org

• What Is Depression? (American Psychiatric Association)
• Depression (Royal College of Physicians)
• Depression: A Hidden Burden (infographic; World Health Organization- available as a hardcopy in the Sunnybrook library)
• Cognitive behavioural therapy: An information guide (Centre for Addiction and Mental Health)
• The Health and Well-being of Canadian Youth and Young Adults (Public Health Agency of Canada)
• Comparing antidepressants and behaviour therapy (Sunnybrook)
• Light therapy an effective treatment for non-seasonal depression (Sunnybrook)
• Experts urge early monitoring for heart disease in teens with mood disorders (Sunnybrook)
• The mental health benefits of exercise (Sunnybrook)
• #chatsafe: A young person's guide for communicating safely online about suicide (Orygen)
• Video Library - Canadian Biomarker Integration Network in Depression (CAN-BIND)
• Choice D Patient and Family Guide to Depression Treatment
• Sleep and insomnia resources:
  • mySleepwell
  • CBT-I Coach
  • Ashton Manual
• Resources for Families Affected by Co-morbid Substance Use (CAMH)
• First-person stories of people living with mental illness:
  • Healthexperiences.ca
  • Healthtalk.org
• MAOI Diet Recipe Book

Disclaimer: we have not evaluated these apps. They are listed in alphabetical order, not order of effectiveness.

Calm - guided mindfulness meditation for smartphones and tablets; $13.99/month

CBT-i Coach - for people who are engaged in cognitive behavioural therapy for insomnia with a health provider, or who have experienced symptoms of insomnia and would like to improve their sleep habits.

Headspace - guided meditation for smartphones and tablets; free 10 day trial then $12.95/month. Read more about Headspace: "The Science of Meditation" and "HeadSpace Research"

MediSafe - medication reminder for smartphones and tablets; $6.99

MoodKit - Cognitive Behavioural Therapy app for iPhone and iPad; $6.99

Pacifica - holistic tools to address stress, anxiety and depression for smartphones, tablets and web; free 7 day trial then $5.49/month

SuperBetter - helps build personal resilience for smartphones, tablets and web; free

T2 Mood Tracker - monitor and track emotional health for smartphones and tablets; free

What’s My M3 - mood tracker for patients and clinicians to monitor trends over time for smartphones and tablets; free

For more apps, visit the Scarborough Health Network's Mental Health App Library

Available in the Sunnybrook library:

• Beating Stress, Anxiety & Depression: groundbreaking ways to help you feel better, reprint edition (Plant and Stephenson, Little, Brown Publishing: 2011)
• After the Stork: the couple's guide to preventing and overcoming postpartum depression (Rosenquist, New Harbinger Publications: 2010)
• Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Depression, Second Edition (Segal, Williams and Teasdale, Guilford Press: 2013)

Not available in the Sunnybrook library:

• Feeling Good: the new mood therapy, revised and updated edition (Burns, Harper: 2008)
• Mind Over Mood, Second Edition: change how you feel by changing the way you think (Greenberger and Padesky, Guilford Press: 2015)
• The Mindful Way through Depression: freeing yourself from chronic unhappiness (Williams, Teadale, Segal and Kabat-Zinn, Guilford Press: 2007)

Available in the Sunnybrook library:

• 100 Questions & Answers about Depression, 2nd Edition (Albrecht and Herrick, Jones & Bartlett Learning: 2011)
• Depression in Later Life (Baldwin, Oxford Psychiatry Library Services: 2010)
• Understanding Mental Disorders: A Patient and Family Resource (American Psychiatric Association: 2015)

Not available in the Sunnybrook library:

• The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression (Solomon, Scribner: 2002)