Where to get help - An introduction to where you can get help

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1. Where to get help

2. Can I do it myself? Self help resources can be useful, but doctors tend to have a bias towards thinking they can do it themselves when actually they need external help.

3. https://thiswayup.org.au/courses/ Online Cognitive Behavioral Therapy based courses – This is the best self-help resource CODE: TENBDIAP

4. https://www.cci.health.wa.gov.au/Resources/Looking-After-Yourself Don’t prescribe yourself anything!! Don’t get a colleague to do it either!! See a doctor!!

5. https:// thiswayup.org.au /courses/

6. Helping others? This module is intended to provide practical advice for strategies that clinicians working in teams in acute settings can use immediately to improve their mental wellbeing Peer support network that connects doctors of similar career stages across Aust and NZ. Doctors are allocated a peer support leader and can meet regularly. Mostly online

7. GP: https://www.amansw.com.au/doctors-for-colleagues/ Link to a list of GP’s who have done a brief course on looking after doctor patients Psychologists: Call Doctors Health NSW for a list of psychologists that have a special interest in seeing doctors. 02 9437 6552 Psychiatrists: (Who have listed an interest in seeing colleagues) https:// www.yourhealthinmind.org /find-a-psychiatrist/ results?country = AU&seed =240741&onlineConsultations= false&radius =10&expertiseIn=%5B%5D&servicesOffered=%5B%5D&experienceWith=%5B3%5D&treatsAges=%5B%5D&languages=%5B%5D&page=1&searchLoading= true&initialSearch =true Clinical Interventions

8. Your own GP

9. https://www.drs4drs.com.au/ Telemedicine support 24/7, 365 days a year: 1300 374 377 (1300 Dr4Drs) The Doctors for Doctors Support Service (Drs4Drs) provides doctors and medical students with a confidential telehealth service providing up to three counselling sessions of one hour each DRS4DRS

10. https://aci.health.nsw.gov.au/covid-19/kindness Online Resources

11. https://www.blackdoginstitute.org.au/the-essential-network/ Online resources, links to online modules and links to psychologists and psychiatrists who specialize in healthcare worker wellbeing. Consultations are free and not recorded in Health e Net or Medicare

12. The Medical Benevolent Association of NSW