Wellness and Health
https://growtherapy.com/ ← takes many fed insurance plans
Civil Servant Oriented list of Mental/Behavioral Health Providers (includes providers accepting insurance, self-pay, and sliding-scale payment options)
Suicide Prevention and Help
Exposure to suicide is a major risk factor for us to experience anxiety, depression, suicidal ideation and later potentially develop PTSD. (See: Cerel et al. 2016) These deaths impact all of us, because we all can identify our life as being the next at risk and/or can probably name a coworker whose safety we fear for. No matter how the media portrays this - it’s workplace stress, and now workplace violence. Below are a set of resources for helping different people through these times.
Staying Safe for you or someone you know
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Hotlines/Textlines
- The 988 Lifeline: call, text, or chat the 988 lifeline. What to Expect at 988 Please note that police may be involved in deescalation interventions.
- For Vets, there is the Veteran Crisis Hotline. Please note this hotline uses the 988 network; police may be involved in deescalation interventions.
- For STEM folks and marginalized identities, Thrive Lifeline is non-carceral* suicide intervention text line.
** Non-carceral means providing support without reliance on police or forced hospitalization. Check out* https://dontcallthepolice.com/oklahoma-city/ as an example
Other crisis lines that do not work with police:
- Call Blackline: (800) 604-5841 —> centers Black, Indigenous, & People of Color, LGBTQ, and Black Femme Lens
- Wildflower Alliance Peer Support Line: (888) 407-4515 (trained peer supporters)
- StrongHearts Native Helpline: (844) 762-8483 (centering Native Americans and Alaska Natives)
- LGBT National Help Center: (888) 843-4564
- Trans Lifeline: 877-565-8860, run by and for trans people