Resources

Wellness Initiative

Check out the Shaw Wellness Institute at Colgate!

Minding Your Mental Health

Click here to access a series of informative webpages about a wide range of mental health issues.

Virtual Pamphlet Collection (University of Chicago)
Unabridged version

Lending Library
Click here for a list of our books available for checkout

Guide for Faculty and Staff
Take a look at our guide on how to help distressed students.

Referral Guide for Parents
Click here for the guide.

• ULifeLine
• 4collegewomen.org 

Alcohol

For facts, information, and news about alcohol, check out this site hosted at SUNY Potsdam.

• potsdam.edu/alcohol-info/SiteIndex.html

The University of Indiana at Bloomington maintains a file on all aspects of the use of beverage alcohol as well as various aspects of collegiate drinking.

• indiana.edu/~engs/aarticles.shtml

The University of Oklahoma Police Department has a special page on their website dedicated to finding out what an individual's blood alcohol level could be based on height, weight, and quantity consumed. It can also compute backwards from a known blood alcohol level to quantity ingested.

• ou.edu/oupd/bac.htm 

Sexual Assault

• www.rainn.org/ 
  
• 911rape.org/

Depression

• health.yahoo.net/channel/depression.html
• healthline.com/health/depression
• depression.about.com/mbody.htm 
• psycom.net/depression.central.html 
• depression-screening.org 
• depression.mentalhelp.net/ 
• mentalhelp.net/ 
• healingwell.com/depression/ 
• psychologyinfo.com/depression/ 
• nami.org/helpline/depress.htm 
• ndmda.org

Anxiety

• adaa.org/
• lexington-on-line.com/naf.html
• panicdisorder.about.com/mbody.htm
• ub-counseling.buffalo.edu/anxiety.shtml
• counseling.uchicago.edu/vpc/

Eating Disorders

• About-Face
  
• Renfrew Treatment Center
• Something Fishy
• Eating-Disorder.com
• Caring online.com
• Mirror-mirror

The following titles on eating and body image issues are available at Gurze Publications:

• Moving Away From Diets: New Ways to Heal Eating Problems and Exercise Resistance
• Eating Mindfully: How to End Mindless Eating and Enjoy a Balanced Relationship with Food 
• Eating in the Light of the Moon
• When Food is Love: Exploring the Relationship Between Eating and Intimacy
• It's Not About Food: End Your Obsession with Food & Weight
• Reviving Ophelia:  Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls
• Desperately Seeking Self: An Inner Guidebook for People With Eating Problems by Viola Fodor
• Self-Esteem Comes in All Sizes
• Body Image Workbook: An 8-step program for learning to like your looks
• Eating Disorder Sourcebook 
• Bulimia: A Guide to Recovery: Understanding and Overcoming the Binge-Purge Syndrome 
• Bulimia Nervosa and Binge-Eating: A Guide to Recovery 
• Overcoming Overeating 
• Conquer Your Cravings: Four Steps to Stopping the Struggle and Winning Your Inner Battle with Foods
• Constant Craving: What Your Food Cravings Mean and How to Overcome Them 
• Making Peace with Food
• The Deadly Diet: Recovering from Anorexia and Bulimia 
• The Golden Cage: The Enigma of Anorexia Nervosa 
• Your Dieting Daughter: Is She Dying for Attention?
• Recovery from Compulsive Eating: A Complete Guide to the Twelve Step Program  
• The Secret Language of Eating Disorders: The Revolutionary New Approach to Understanding and Curing Anorexia and Bulimia  
• Beyond the Food Game: A Spiritual and Psychological Approach to Healing Emotional Eating 
• Treating and Overcoming Anorexia Nervosa 
• Love Hunger: Recovery from Food Addiction 
• Like Mother, Like Daughter: How Women Are Influenced by Their Mother's Relationship with Food and How to Break the Pattern 
• Chocolate Is My Kryptonite: Feeding Your Feelings How to Survive the Forces of Food 
• Bulimia: A Guide for Family and Friends 
• Fat Is a Feminist Issue: The Anti-Diet Guide to Permanent Weight Loss 
• French Toast for Breakfast: Declaring Peace With Emotional Eating 
• Full Lives: Women Who Have Freed Themselves from Food and Weight Obsession 
• Fat Is a Family Affair 
• Fasting Girls: The History of Anorexia Nervosa 
• The Monster Within: Overcoming Bulimia