Resources

  1. Depression
  2. CBT for Depression
  3. Distractions:
    • Writing
    • Light therapy
    • Exercise
    • Meditate
    • Spend time with friends or family
    • Draw/colour
    • Spend time with pets
    • Nature walks

  1. Substance Use
  2. Substance Use Information Referral Service: ADIRS (All of BC)
    1. 1-800-663-1441
  3.  Shelters
    • Lookout Emergency Aid Society
      • 346 Alexander Street Vancouver, BC
      • 604-681-9126
    • First United Church
      • 320 E. Hastings Street Vancouver, BC
      • 604-681-8365
    • Covenant House (age: 16-22yrs)
      • 575 Drake Street Vancouver, BC
      • 604-685-7474
  4. Recovery and Rehabilitation Centres
    • Burnaby Centre for Mental Health and Addiction
      • 604-675-3950
    • Last Door Recovery Society
      • 604-525-9771
    • Youth Detox
      • 604-872-4349
    • Maple Ridge Treatment Centre
      • 604-467-3471
    • Together We Can
      • 604-451-9854
  5. Peer Support
    • VANDU (Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users)
      • 380 E. Hastings Street Vancouver, BC
      • 604-683-6061
    • AA Meetings (option to choose other cities):
      • 604-434-3933
    • NA Meetings (options to choose other cities)
      • 1-855-444-2262

  1. Greater Vancouver Coastal Distress Line
  2. Kuu-us Crisis Line
    • First Nation and Indigenous specific crisis line
    • 1-800-588-8717
  3. S.U.C.C.E.S.S Chinese Help Lines
    • Cantonese: 604-270-8233
    • Mandarin: 604-270-8222
  4. Suicide Line
    • 1-800-SUICIDE (1-800-784-2433)
  5. Mental Health Support
    • 310-6789
  6. Office to Combat Trafficking in Persons
    • 1 888 712-7974
  7. VictimLinkBC
    • 1-800-563-0808
  8. Problem Gambling Help Line
    • 1-888-795-6111
  9. The Alcohol and Drug Information and Referral Service
    • 604-660-9382 or 1-800-663-1441
  10. Battered Women’s Support Services
    • 604-687-1867
  11. Shelter and Street Help Line
    • 211
  12. U. B. C. Legal Clinic
    • 604-822-5791

Without self-knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.

George Gurdjieff

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