Self help
When looking after our mental health it is important to think about what we can do. These self-help sections look at some of the ways that you can look after you.
Self-help can be effective in maintaining good wellbeing but also if you are able to recognise the signs that something is not right, you can find useful strategies and sources of support before is develops into something more serious.
Useful Links
Harmless is a user led organisation that provides a range of services about self-harm including support, information, training and consultancy to people who self-harm, their friends and families and professionals.
Samaritans – If something’s troubling you, then get in touch. We’re here 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
For help in a crisis please click here for contacts.
Call 116 123 to talk to Samaritans
Text “SHOUT” to 85258 to contact the Shout Crisis Text Line
NHS help for self-harm
Useful apps
Calm Harm is a free app that helps you manage or resist the urge to self-harm.
The Hub of Hope is the UK’s leading mental health support database. It is provided by national mental health charity, Chasing the Stigma, and brings local, national, peer, community, charity, private and NHS mental health support and services together in one place for the first time.