Other Resources

Websites

The Jed Foundation is the nation’s leading organization working to promote emotional health and prevent suicide among college students. Projects of the Jed Foundation include: ULifeline, The Transition Year, Half of Us, and Love is Louder.

To Write Love on Her Arms is a non-profit movement dedicated to presenting hope and finding help for people struggling with depression, addiction, self-injury, and suicide.

Mental Health Help Guide is a comprehensive self-help guide for your questions about mental health and includes topics such as depression, anxiety, PTSD and trauma, grief, healthy lifestyles, and emotional health.

Books

Being Perfect by Anna Quindlen 

Daring Greatly by Brené Brown

If You Feel Too Much by Jamie Tworkowski

Perfect Girls, Starving Daughters by Courtney E. Martin

The Gifts of Imperfection by Brené Brown

The Opposite of Loneliness by Marina Keegan 

The Pursuit of Perfect: How to Stop Chasing Perfection and Start Living a Richer, Happier Life by Tal Ben-Shahar

Articles

You Don’t Have to Earn Your Mental Health Struggles, Peterson (2019) -The Week.

Perfectionism on the Rise Among College Students , Rettner (2018).

Bouncing Back When Things Get Difficult: The Psychology of Resilience, Hopper (2018).

Social Media Is Changing How College Students Deal With Mental Health, For Better Or Worse, HuffPost College (2015).

The Possibilities in Failure, Shapanka (2012).

7 College Students Talk About Their Instagrams and the Pressure to Seem Happy, Grinspan (2015).