Grab your library card or visit your local bookseller. Keep learning. Your librarian can order books from libraries all across the country if your library doesn't have the ones you want. This manual is just a quick tromp through a few of the basics, so continue to feed your mental set with rich ideas and thought-provoking material. Below are some suggestions. There are lots more out there.
Overcoming Depression, P. A. Hauck, Westminster Press, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1973.
Overcoming Frustration and Anger, P. A. Hauck, Westminster Press, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1973.
How To Stubbornly Refuse To Make Yourself Miserable About Anything - Yes Anything!, A. Ellis, Carol Publishing Group, New York, 1988.
Assessment and Treatment of Adolescent Sex Offenders, G. P. Perry & J. Orchard, Professional Resource Press, Sarasota, Florida,1992.
The Multi-professional Handbook of Child Sexual Abuse, T. Furniss, Routledge, London and New York, 1991.
There are so many internet resources for you to access that I can list only a few of them. If you have acquired some facility with internet software, then you may begin to explore some of the following resources. These will lead to others. And so on, and so on ...
All of these resources have other people behind them. Use e-mail to make personal contact if you wish. Most of the time, you will not be disappointed. The support you need is out there in cyber-space.
You may wish to lurk in the following newsgroups to find one that suits your issues, needs and wants:
alt.abuse.recovery alt.psychology.help alt.recovery alt.recovery.addiction.sexual alt.sexual.abuse.recovery alt.sexual.abuse.recovery.d alt.abuse-recovery (m) alt.support.abuse-partners alt.support.anxiety-panic alt.support.depression alt.support.depression.manic alt.support.eating-disord alt.support.loneliness alt.support.shyness alt.support.sleep-disorder soc.support.youth.gay-lesbian-bi (m) alt.self-improve
A few minutes of web-surfing will bring a host of other resources right into your computer. Follow the web links you will find on each page - they will lead you to more and more. If you need a starting place, try these:
Sexual Assault Information Page Index:
Ritual Abuse, Ritual Crime, and Healing Home Page
The GROHOL Mental Health Page - Main Menu
Web links for medical and mental health problems
There is a vibrant community of caring people out there just waiting to support you. Use your own powers of discernment to find what you need. And enjoy your self.