Resources To Help Yourself
Fact sheets and information designed to help you help yourself
Improving Kids Mental Health with Exercise – Exercise Right.
Exercising to Keep Your Anxiety at Bay – Exercise Right
Exercise is Medicine for Men’s Mental Health – Exercise Right
How Moving Your Body, Help Move Your Mood – Exercise Right
How Being Active Can Tackle Loneliness in Aussie Seniors – Exercise Right
Teen mental Health: Why Movement Mattes – Exercise Right
Tips to maintain physical health
- Your Health In Mind – Physical health and mental illness, The Royal Australian & New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (pdf)
- Taking Care of Your Physical Health – Consumer Diary, The University of Western Australia (pdf)
- Healthy Living – Fact sheet, Mi Networks Australia (pdf)
- Headcoach: Brandon Defina, Esports – Headspace Australia (YouTube)
- Walk yourself Happy – SA Health (url)
- Act-Belong-Commit Website – Government of Western Australia Mental Health Commission (url)
Benefits of physical activity
- Exercise therapy for mental illness – UNSWTV, Dr Simon Rosenbaum (YouTube)
- Incidental exercise | Exercise Your Mood – Black Dog Institute (YouTube)
- Exercise and cancer: Improving treatment and outcomes on Health Report – ABC Podcast, Dr Catherine Granger
- Headcoach: Brandon Defina, Esports – headspace Australia (YouTube)
- Exercise – why you need to exercise – Women’s and Children’s Health Network
- Exercise & Depression – Black Dog Institute, 2020.
Help to stop smoking
- Tobacco – Headspace National Youth Mental Health Foundation (pdf)
- How to quit smoking – Australian Government Department of Health (pdf)
- Quit Savings Calculator – Make Smoking History, Government of Western Australia (url)
- Bupropion: a prescribed medicine – Quit Victoria (pdf)
- Quitting services and products – Quit Victoria (pdf)
- Nicotine Mouth Spray – Quit Victoria (pdf)
- Nicotine Gum – Quit Victoria (pdf)
- Nicotine Inhalator – Quit Victoria (pdf)
- Nicotine Lozenges – Quit Victoria(pdf)
- Nicotine Patches – Quit Victoria(pdf)
- Nicotine Replacement Therapy Products how they can help you quit for good – Quit Victoria (url)
- Quit can help you succeed, wherever you’re at – Quit Victoria (url)
- Anthony’s tips on giving up the cigarettes for good – Quit Victoria (YouTube)
- Claire shares tips on battling mental health and quitting – Quit Victoria (YouTube)
- The Stress Cycle of Smoking – Quit Victoria (pdf)
- Nicotine Replacement Therapy Products How they can help you to quit for good – QuitVictoria (pdf)
Healthy food choices
- Headcoach – Daniel Arzani, Australian Football Player – headspace Australia (YouTube)
- The alarming link between mental health and weight gain – UNSWTV, Scott Teasdale (YouTube)
- Diet and Nutrition Infographic – Food & Mood Centre Deakin University (url)
- Healthy Eating Quiz – University of Newcastle (url)
How to talk to my GP
- Getting help from a general practitioner (GP) – Headspace National Youth Mental Health Foundation (pdf)
- Talking to health professionals – Carer Gateway
Maintaining physical health when you have metabolic syndrome
- Metabolic syndrome – Dept Health & Human Services, State Govt of Victoria (url)
Enhancing workplace practice
- Workers mental health and the Peter Principle – ABC Podcast, Dr Carlo Caponecchia (2018)
Useful apps
- MedicineWise app: manage medicines on your smartphone – NPS Medicinewise (url)
Fact sheets and other information
- Mental health but not as you know it – TEDx Talks, Dr Louise Byrne, July 2017 (YouTube)
- Keeping the Body in Mind in Youth with Psychosis – Consensus Statement, Healthy Actives Lives (pdf)
- Physical Health Research Project 2014 – Mental Health Coordinating Council & University of Sydney (pdf)
- Drugs, alcohol and mental health – Beyond Blue (url)
- The SANE Guide to Good Mental Health for people affected by diabetes – SANE Australia and Diabetes Australia (pdf)
- Meditation Infographic – Better Health Channel (url)
- Medications and your oral health, Managing Dry Mouth – South Australian Mental Health Commission (YouTube)
- Your Oral Health – South Australian Mental Health Commission (YouTube)
- Diabetes Risk Calculator – Diabetes Australia (url)
- Stress and overwhelming feelings – Lifeline Australia
- My Mental Health Website – Brisbane North Primary Health Network/ Planning for Wellbeing/Find your reasons to stay
- Your Health in Mind Website – Expert health information for everyone – The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (url)
- Think Mental Health Website – Government of Western Australia Mental Health Commission
- How does Alcohol effect your mental health? – headspace (pdf)
- Cannabis: the physical and mental effects of using and stopping the use of cannabis – headspace (pdf)
- Mental illness: first Steps to get help – RANZCP (pdf)
- Wellbeing: Invest in life – Mental Health Association NSW & Transcultural Mental Health Centre
- How is your Mental Health? – Wayahead (pdf)
- Exercise and Mental Health – Healthdirect (url)
- Keeping Active – Beyond Blue (url)
- Stroke, cancer and other chronic diseases more likely for those with poor mental health – The Conversation
- Metabolic Syndrome – Healthdirect (url)
Medication and mental illness
- Medication: Effectiveness and side effects – Healthtalk Australia (url & audio)
- Open Dialogue – All In The Mind, ABC Radio National (url & podcast)
- Depression and your sense of self – ABC Radio National, All In The Mind (url & podcast)
- Anti-depressant medication – Sane Australia (url)
- Medication – Reach Out (url)
- Managing mental health medications – BetterHealth, Victoria Government (url & pdf)
- Medication for mental illness – Your health in Mind, RANZCP (url & pdf)
- Medication and mental illness perspectives – Mental Health Commission of NSW (url & pdf)
