Below are some very useful links that take you to reliable and important pages on various topics. Be aware that once you click on these links, you are leaving the Central West Women's Health Centre site, and we do not take responsibility for information on those sites.

We hope you find these links helpful. If you are feeling suicidal right now, and need more urgent help, please call one of the support telephone lines below.

24-hour crisis telephone counselling services:

Lifeline .............................................. 13 11 14

Kids Help Line ....................................1800 55 1800

Suicide Prevention
and Crisis Intervention ..................... 1300 363 622

Salvo Care Line ................................. 02 9331 6000

NSW Rape Crisis Centre ................... 1800 424 017

On Call Sexual Assault ......................

For those who are trying to help someone else who they think might be suicidal, the information here might be very useful

Anxiety:
Mental Health Association NSW Inc. 
Anxiety Disorders Support and Information (ADSI)

Body Image:
About Face
Body Positive 
Girl Power! Get Body Wise! 
Love Your Body 
Radiance Online: The Magazine for Large Women

Depression:
Beyond Blue: the national depression initiative 
Black Dog Institute: depression & bipolar disorder information

Postnatal Depression: 
Black Dog Institute Fact sheet 
Postnatal depression scientific literature
Beyond Blue Homepage
The Edinburg Postnatal Depession Scale from Beyond Blue
Centre for Mental Health Research
Clinical Research Unit for Anxiety and Depression
Help for people and their families to understand depression
Suicide prevention in Australia

Eating Disorders: 
Centre for Eating and Dieting Disorders (CEDD) 
Eating Disorders Association of Queensland 
Eating Disorders Foundation of NSW
The Victorian Centre of Excellence in Eating Disorders (CEED) 
The Eating Disorders Education Network (New Zealand) 
Eating Disorders Anonymous 
About.com: Eating Disorders 
Caring Online 
Gurze Books (specialising in books on eating disorders) 
If Not Dieting, Then What? 
Overeaters Anonymous 
Something Fishy Eating Disorder site 
Archives of Resistance: anti-anorexia / anti-bulimia narratives

Family Planning:
Family Planning NSW 
International Planned Parenthood Federation
Natural Birth Education & Research Centre
The Jean Hailes Foundation for Women's Health 
Hope after abortion

Naturopathy Information:
HerbNET... for everythin g herbal
Botanical.com
Ultimate Healing

Rape:
Rape Crisis NSW

Going to Court:
http://www.courtwise.nsw.gov.au/

Women's Health:
Women's Health NSW
Women's Health Queensland Wide Inc. 
Women's Healthworks
It's My Body