Resources
SLO County Hotlines
Lumina 24-hour Crisis and Information Line
Call: (805) 545-8888
Mental health guidance, crisis and suicide prevention.
Call: (800) 783-0607
Central Coast Peer-run Warmline
Non-emergency resource for anyone in California seeking emotional support.
Call: 1 (855) 845-7415
Other Resources
Mental Health
National Alliance on Mental Health
Balance Treatment Center Intensive Outpatient Program for higher level of care
MGH Center for Women's Mental Health
Center for Environmental Therapeutics
Answers to Your Questions About Panic Disorder
Questions and Answers about Memories of Childhood Abuse
Depression and How Therapy Can Help
High Control Group Support
Recommended Reading
Coping After Shunning: Experiences of Former Jehovah’s Witnesses in the United Kingdom by Grendele et al.
EXiting the JW Cult: A Healing Handbook for Current & Former Jehovah’s Witnesses by Bonnie Zieman
Cults in Our Midst: The Continuing Fight Against Their Hidden Menace by Margaret Thaler Singer
Fundamentalist Religious Childhoods and Adult Mental Health and Wellbeing by Gill Harvey
Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism: A Study of ‘Brainwashing’ in China by Robert Jay Lifton