A person with medium skin sitting at a desk. They are using a laptop with one hand and holding a piece of paper in the other. Une personne à la peau moyennement foncée assise à un bureau. Elle utilise un ordinateur portable d’une main et tient une feuille de papier dans l’autre.The following resources are not intended as a replacement for professional advice. Please speak to a health care provider if you are experiencing thoughts, symptoms or shifts in mood that you are concerned about. If you are experiencing crisis, please reach out to the nationwide crisis line by calling or texting 9-8-8. If you are in immediate danger, please call 9-1-1.

Arthritis Society Canada Resources

  • Emotional Event Worksheet: This worksheet helps guide you through processing and coping with an emotional event.
  • Thinking Realistically Worksheet: This worksheet shares information about different types of distorted thinking, and helps you practice realistic thinking.
  • Food and Mood Tracker: This worksheet helps you track your sleep, food, mood, physical activity, and medications. Keeping track of these things can help you understand how you feel and identify patterns.

Additional Resources

  • JointHealth™ Education: Arthritis and Mental Health: This free online course from Arthritis Consumer Experts is designed to empower people with arthritis with strategies that support mental wellbeing.
  • Emotionally Coping with your Diagnosis: This resource from the Canadian Arthritis Patient Alliance is designed to help you understand and cope with the emotions you may experience with your diagnosis of inflammatory arthritis, and identify support and resources that are available to help you live with inflammatory arthritis.
  • Arthritis Research Education Series: Anxiety and Depression in People with Arthritis: This online guide from Arthritis Research Canada shares information about arthritis and mental health research, informed by expert research scientists and patient advisors.
  • Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction: This free online Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction course from Palouse Mindfulness is designed for people who are not able to take a live MBSR course for financial or logistical reasons.
  • Power Over Pain Portal: This portal is designed for people who live with pain and offers a collection of resources including articles, videos, podcasts, courses, workshops, and peer support.

  • Managing Stress with a Chronic or Rare Disease Workbook: This free workbook from ABC Life Literacy Canada’s Health Matters program is designed for people living with chronic or rare diseases, and shares information to help you understand how you experience stress and learn some ways to manage it.
  • Positive Coping with Health Conditions, A Self-Care Workbook: This free self-care manual from the Centre for Applied Research in Mental Health and Addiction (CARMHA) and BC Mental Health & Addiction Services (BCMHAS) is designed for people who are dealing with health conditions. The topics include relaxation; managing worry; activating your life; solving problems; managing depressive thinking; managing anger and relationship building.
  • The Antidepressant Skills Workbook: This free workbook by CARMHA & BCMHAS gives an overview of depression, explains how it can be effectively managed according to the best available research, and gives a step-by-step guide to changing negative patterns using cognitive and behavioural methods.
  • Dealing with Depression Workbook: This workbook is designed for teens coping with depression. It includes some simple and very effective exercises based on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy principles. They help you recognize thinking and behaviour patterns that could be holding you back, and help you come up with realistic alternatives.

  • Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness by Jon Kabat-Zinn.

Additional resources can be found on the When and Where to Seek Help page.

If you have a suggestion or correction to include in this resource list, connect with us by email at [email protected].

Contributors

This mental health resource was developed and last reviewed in March 2026 with expert advice from:
Dr. Joshua A. Rash, PhD, RPsych (NL), R.D.Psych. (SK)
Memorial University of Newfoundland; University of Saskatchewan
Marg Smit-Vandezande, MSW, RSW
Arthritis Rehabilitation and Education Program, Arthritis Society Canada
Nikolas Harris, MSW, RSW
Senior Manager, Mission, Arthritis Society Canada

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