Mental Health
ACTivate your life
This free course is designed to help you improve your mental health and wellbeing. Feeling worried or anxious can have a big impact on your health and for some people life can be particularly difficult.
The course can help you to take greater control of your actions, so that day-to-day life becomes less distressing and more enjoyable. You will learn practical and effective ways of dealing with thoughts and feelings that may be causing distress.
The course has been developed for you by Dr Neil Frude and will help you find out what is really important to you and give you the skills to be able to live your life with more confidence and a greater sense of purpose.
Melo
While we can’t take away life’s problems, we can help you find better ways to cope with them.
Melo provides you with resources to look after your mental wellbeing.
Taking care of our own mental wellbeing, and that of our loves ones has never been more important. Everyday life brings many challenges and worries.
The resources on Melo can help us develop new skills and new ways of coping. When we take the time to look after ourselves, we feel better. We are more able to cope with the difficulties that life throws at us and are more able to look after others.
Growing Space
Growing Space supports individuals with mental ill health, autism or a learning disability to build confidence, develop social skills and improve quality of life through the provision of therapeutic training, vocational skills, creativity and work experience.
How to join:
- Self-referral
- Through family or carers
- Referral from GP, Mental Health Service, or other agencies
Samaritans
A guide for anyone who is struggling to cope.
This guide has been created for anyone who is struggling to cope. You may be feeling low and finding life very difficult and/or may be engaging in self-destructive behaviours. You may be self-harming or thinking about harming yourself. You may also be experiencing suicidal thoughts or perhaps you are actively suicidal and thinking about how you would end your life.
If you are struggling to cope, this resource can provide you with some guidance and support.
This guide is also suitable for anyone who is supporting someone else who is struggling to cope (See page 30).
