If you or someone you know is in a mental health crisis in the United States, call or text 988. If someone is in immediate danger, call 911. Outside the United States, find a crisis line for your country at Find A Helpline.
Climbing this Mount Everest of messages every day cannot be good for our mental health (illustration).
Online messaging is everywhere all around us all the time, and psychology professionals are only now figuring out the consequences to our mental health. I do technology, not psychology, for a living, and I would make a lousy counselor. But since I help parents and future parents protect their families by teaching how abusive messaging works, here are some resources to help deal with online messaging consequences.
- Dealing With Online Abuse. People treating other people badly is as old as humanity. But today, the internet with social media lets us do it on a scale our ancestors could never imagine. This page has links to studies, and advice for dealing with public indoctrination, grooming, and bullying.
- Mental Health Treatment. Has a growing list of links to mental health treatment centers. I am no expert in mental health and have not vetted this list.
- Substance Abuse Treatment. A long list of links to treatment centers across the United States. I am no expert in addiction and have not vetted this list. Use it as a starting point.
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