COUNSELING
- Seattle Counseling Service provides LGBT friendly sliding-scale counseling in the Seattle area
- Open Door Counseling and Workshops focuses on art therapy in the Seattle area, LGBT friendly
- Puget Sound Psychiatric Center has counseling and psychiatric services in the Pacific Northwest
GROUPS
- Meetup.com is a great website for finding support groups or like-minded folk in your area
- NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness) has general information, as well as location-specific resources
- Al-Anon Family Groups are meeting groups for friends and family members of problem-drinkers
- ACoA an anonymous 12 step program for men and women who grew up in alcoholic homes
RESEARCH
- PIMS - the Pacific Institute of Medical Sciences holds research studies in the Pacific Northwest for a number of psychiatric conditions
PATIENT ASSISTANT PROGRAMS – MEDICATIONS
- Bristol-Meyers Squibb - Abilify
- AstraZeneca - Seroquel & Seroquel XR
- Bridges to Access - Lamictal (lamotrigine)
- Lilly Cares - Zyprexa (olanzapine), Prozac (fluoxetine hydrochloride)
MISCELLANEOUS
- The Icarus Project an alternative website/forum for those unhappy with current mental health treatments
BOOKS
- Wishful Drinking, Carrie Fisher’s memoir published in 2009 about her experience with addiction and bipolar disorder
- Shockaholic, Carrie Fisher’s memoir published in 2011 about ECT, bipolar disorder, addiction, and more
- Girl, Interrupted, Susanna Kaysen’s memoir about her stay in a mental ward in 1967 at the age of 18
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Lamictal (lamotrigine) !