Immediate Help
Call the National Suicide Prevention Hotline if you are in any kind of emotional crisis: 1-800-273-TALK (8255)
Call the National Sexual Assault Hotline if you think you may be a victim of rape, incest, sexual assault or abuse: 1.800.656.HOPE
Also available…
TeenCentral.net: an anonymous Help-line web site for teens, by teens. A safe cyber-space for teens to work out their issues.
The Trevor Project Lifeline: A national 24-hour, toll free confidential suicide hotline for gay and questioning youth: 866-4-U-TREVOR
Resources for Support
Reachout.com: a great resource for teens that includes facts and real stories about issues ranging from depression and other mental illnesses, addiction, eating disorders, sex, abuse, self-harm, and many others. Also includes author chats and links to great YA novels dealing with these subjects.
This site has articles on just about every subject you can imagine: Teenhelp.com
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.
The Center for Young Women’s Health has a lot of really helpful information on a variety of issues related to physical, sexual, and emotional health.
The Our Bodies Ourselves Health Resource Center is an empowering place for girls and women to find information about health and sexuality.
Do you know a great resource for teens that I should include here? Please let me know about it!
Drug & Alcohol Recovery
If you or someone you love has a problem with drugs or alcohol:
Amy Reed 
mlAmy Reed,
Hi. My name is Madeline and I can’t explain to you how much I love your book beautiful. It would make my world if you made a second book for beautiful. It could be about Cassie and how shes trying to improve her life. I would be the happiest person in the world. And I know A LOT of other people who would love the second book! Please please please please please.
, Your Number One Fan
Hi, Amy my name is Bella. I read your book beautiful and now working on your book Clean. I did Beautiful for a book report and I had to write about why this book could be good thing for teens to read. Then I got like more than half my class to ask if they could borrow the book. And your book Clean gives me a different perspective of rehab. I didnt know they do half of the stuff the characters do in there. Anyways I am a huge fan.
Dear Amy,
I read your book crazy. I am not diagnosed with bipolar disorder, but I am professionally diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder, major depression, panic disorder, and codependency. I just wanted you to know that Isabel tells Connor how I feel all of the time. I have been to a mental hospital twice and I have outpatient therapy weekly. I haven’t gotten to Isabel’s recovery yet. I still struggle Amy. I still feel alone and afraid at night. I know it isn’t my fault. I try to tell myself its just depression, but i don’t understand why i cant feel better already. I dont understand why i cant tell people how i feel. I feel afraid that they will get angry or send me back to inpatient. I dont want that. I just want someone to tell me its okay to feel like there is a hole in my chest that might eat me alive.I just wanted to say that you were very accurate and that your story is hopeful. Maybe recovery is possible. I hope i get there soon.
Thank you so much for this. It means so much to me that my book spoke to you so strongly. I’m so sorry to hear about your struggle, but it sounds like you are getting the help you need. I received a similar diagnosis when I was fourteen, and I won’t lie–life has been hard at times. But there are so many resources available in terms of medication and therapy, and I promise recovery is possible. It can be a really slow process. You just have to be patient and honest. Remember too that for a lot of people, the teenage years are the most painful part of their lives, even without a mood disorder, so don’t be too hard on yourself for having a tough time. It’s okay to feel pain. It’s okay to feel hopeless sometimes. The important part is remembering it is temporary. It will pass and you will survive it.
Sending you lots of love,
Amy
Hi Abigail ~
I don’t know if you’re in the Seattle area, but if you are, I am a counselor, and would be happy to talk with you. Call me – Jeanne (425) 327-4689.