Fact sheets and self-assessment tools
Fact sheets
The Mental Health Association NSW has a helpful website with fact sheets about mental health and wide range of mental health conditions. These fact sheets describe the signs and symptoms of different types of mental illness and include the latest referral and possible treatment options.
Fact sheets are available on these issues and disorders:
- Agoraphobia
- Alcohol & Other Drugs
- Anger management
- Anxiety kit
- Bipolar kit
- Depression kit
- Eating Disorders kit
- Generalised Anxiety Disorder
- Grief and loss
- Impulse Control Disorders
- Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
- Panic Disorder
- Postnatal Depression
- Psychosis
- Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
- Recognising and managing stress
- Schizophrenia
- Self-harm
- Social Phobia
- Stress kit
» Check out the Mental Health Association NSW fact sheets (opens in a new window)
Self-assessment tools
Beyondblue has useful links to some checklists that are quick, easy and confidential. These questions are designed to help you reflect on your situation or that of someone close to you. Information found on this site is a guide only. It is important to seek help from a counsellor if you have symptoms of Depression, Anxiety or a related disorder.
- Depression (opens in a new window)
- Anxiety (opens in a new window)
- Beyondblue (opens in a new window)
- myCompass (Black Dog Institute) (opens in a new window) - myCompass allows you to get simple self-help strategies for mild to moderate depression on your phone, anywhere, anytime.
