Mental Health
You Are Not Alone
We live in difficult times. With engagements overseas and difficulties at home, we all feel the stress of life every day. May is Mental Health Month, and the Military Health System wants you to know that you are not alone.
Below are links to a number of tools and resources inside and outside the MHS available to you and your family for your mental health needs.
Think You Might Need Help?
Military Pathways provides totally anonymous and voluntary self-assessments online and by phone (toll-free: 1-877-877-3647) so that you can review your situation and discover whether or not you have symptoms that are consistent with a condition or concern that would benefit from further evaluation or treatment. You’ll also receive guidance as to where you might seek assistance. www.militarymentalhealth.org
Have Questions?
The Defense Centers of Excellence for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury runs a 24/7 Outreach Center that provides information and resources about psychological health, post-traumatic stress disorder, and traumatic brain injury. The center is available to service members, families and friends, military leaders, clinicians, educators, support personnel, clergy, researchers, and deployed government civilians.
Contact the DCoE Outreach Center three ways:
Phone: 866-966-1020
E-mail: resources@dcoeoutreach.org
Live Online Chat: Visit the Outreach Center page and link to a live chat
Already Receiving Mental Health Care?
Are you a service member currently receiving mental health treatment? Have you received new orders? Are you looking at an upcoming change in status, relocation or return to civilian life? If so, transferring to a new care provider can be easy. Sign up for the inTransition Mental Health Coaching and Support Program. inTransition will assign you a personal coach who will support you as you move between health care systems or providers. Call 800-424-7877 or visit health.mil/InTransition
Resources Across the MHS and Its Partners
Getting Your Benefits
MHS Organizations
 | Courage to Care Campaign (Uniformed Services University) - Courage to Care is a new, electronic health campaign for military and civilian professionals serving the military community, as well as for military service members and families. Courage to Care consists of electronic fact sheets on timely health topics relevant to military life that provide actionable information. |
 | Defense Centers of Excellence for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury (DCoE)- DCoE assesses, validates, oversees and facilitates prevention, resilience, identification, treatment, outreach, rehabilitation, and reintegration programs for psychological health and traumatic brain injury (TBI) to ensure the Department of Defense meets the needs of the nation's military communities, warriors and families.
 | Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center - The mission of the Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center (DVBIC) is to serve active duty military, their dependents and veterans with traumatic brain injury (TBI) through state-of-the-art medical care, innovative clinical research initiatives and educational programs. |  | Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress - The Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress conducts research, education, consultation and training on preparing for and responding to the psychological effects and health consequences of traumatic events. These events include natural (hurricanes, floods and tsunami) and human made disasters (motor vehicle and plane crashes, war, terrorism and bioterrorism). |  | Center for Deployment Psychology - The Center for Deployment Psychology was developed to promote the education of psychologists and other behavioral health specialists about issues pertaining to the deployment of military personnel. |  | PDhealth.mil - Deployment Health Clinical Center - PDHealth.mil was designed to assist clinicians in the delivery of post-deployment health care by fostering a trusting partnership between military service members, veterans, their families, and their health care providers to ensure the highest quality care for those who make sacrifices in the world's most hazardous workplace. |  | National Center for Telehealth and Technology - The National Center for Telehealth and Technology (T2) researches, develops, evaluates, and deploys new and existing technologies for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) across the Department of Defense. |  | National Intrepid Center of Excellence - The NICoE concept features a holistic approach to the referral, assessment, diagnosis and treatment of those with complex traumatic brain injury and psychological disorders. | |
 | Force Health Protection and Readiness - Includes research on mental health issues through DeployMED ResearchLink |
Support for You and Your Family
 | After Deployment - Assists you and the people close to you to manage your after-deployment concerns |
 | Air Force Crossroads - The official community website of the Air Force. Includes stress management and suicide prevention resources |
 | Army Behavioral Health - News and resources from Army Medicine |
 | Army Well-Being - Assisting soldiers, Army wives, families, wounded warriors and survivors by providing resources and information to maintain healthy well-being |
 | BattleMind - Reflects a strength-based, positive psychology approach to warrior behavioral health. It is designed for warriors, leaders, spouses, families and behavioral health providers. Training and information is targeted to all phases of the warrior deployment cycle, warrior life cycle and warrior support system. |
 | Coast Guard Employee Assistance Program - A support system for all employees (military, civilian and their families), with personal, family or job-related problems, providing an umbrella of various services to enhance the well being of Coast Guard employees and families |
 | Hooah4Health - Mental Health Resources - Mental health resources on the U.S. Army's health promotion and wellness web site |
 | MHN Government Services - Mental Health Services for active, Guard and Reserve service members and their families |
 | Military Mental Health Self-Assessment Program - The Mental Health Self-Assessment Program (MHSAP) offers service personnel and their families the opportunity to take anonymous, mental health and alcohol use self-assessments online, via phone, and through special events held at installations. The self-assessments are a brief series of questions that, when linked together, help create a picture of how an individual is feeling |
 | Military OneSource - Mental Health Resources - Whether its help with child care, personal finances, emotional support during deployments, relocation information, or resources needed for special circumstances, Military OneSource is there for military personnel and their families. This is a link to mental health resources on the site |
 | National Resource Directory - The National Resource Directory (NRD) is an online tool for wounded, ill and injured service members, veterans, their families and those who support them. It provides access to more than 11,000 services and resources at the national and state levels to support the recovery, rehabilitation and reintegration of service members and veterans into their communities. The NRD is maintained through a collaborative partnership among the Departments of Defense, Labor and Veterans Affairs. |
 | Navy and Marine Corps Public Health Center - Minding Your Mental Health - Provides information and resources you can use to take greater control of your mental and emotional well-being. Whether you are thinking about seeking help or are already in treatment, this guide will be beneficial. |
 | Operation Healthy Reunions - A first-of-its-kind program that provides education and helps to bust the stigma of mental health issues among soldiers, their families, and medical staff to ensure that a greater number of military families receive the prompt and high-quality care they deserve |
 | Real Warriors - The Real Warriors Campaign is an initiative launched by the Defense Centers of Excellence for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury (DCoE) to promote the processes of building resilience, facilitating recovery and supporting reintegration of returning service members, veterans and their families. The Real Warriors Campaign combats the stigma associated with seeking psychological health care and treatment and encourages service members to increase their awareness and use of these resources.
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 | Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors (TAPS) - TAPS provides comfort and care, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, through comprehensive services and programs including peer-based emotional support, case work assistance, crisis intervention, and grief and trauma resources. |
More information
 | National Institute of Mental Health - The mission of NIMH is to transform the understanding and treatment of mental illnesses through basic and clinical research, paving the way for prevention, recovery and cure. |