Self-help books or professional help?

There is an inexhaustible range of guides and self-help books on mental health and mental disorders. The flood of self-help literature shows the importance and urgency of the topic. But self-help books are by no means always the right approach – sometimes it is better to get professional help.
The following contact points will help with mental crises:

Psychiatric Health Centre Kornhausgasse
Universitäre Psychiatrische Kliniken Basel
Kornhausgasse 7
CH-4051 Basel
www.upkbs.ch

Dargebotene Hand
Telephone 143
www.basel.143.ch

Telephone support for children and young people
Telephone 147 (also SMS)
www.147.ch

Pro Mente Sana
Counselling for sufferers and their relatives
Telephone 0848 800 858

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