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Are you worried about your mental health? If you're having mental health problems, do not feel that you are alone. One in four of us will have problems with our mental health at some time in our lives.

This page provides you with links to information and self-help resources on depression, stress, anxiety and other mental health issues.

You can also visit our Mental Health and Wellbeing page for further details of how you can access help and advice locally.

Rethink Mental Illness, is a charity that offers help and hope to everyone affected by mental illness.

Mind helps people to take control over their mental health. They provide information and advice, training programmes, grants and services through their network of local Mind associations. They aim to make it possible for people who experience mental distress to live full lives, and play their full part in society..

The Mental Health Foundation is committed to reducing the suffering caused by mental ill health and to help everyone lead mentally healthier lives. They help people to survive, recover from and prevent mental health problems.

Depression Alliance aims to relieve and to prevent this treatable condition by providing information and support services.

Overcome Depression was formed to offer a unique reference point on beating and coping with depression.

NHS Mental Health offer information and support regarding anxiety and depression.

The Royal College of Psychiatrists is the professional and educational body for psychiatrists in the UK. It is committed to improving the understanding of psychiatry and mental health and provides a rage of resources for people to access.

Mood Gym aims to help you identify and overcome problem emotions and show you how to develop good coping skills for the future so that you can enjoy good mental health.

Mood Juice aims to help you think about emotional problems and work towards solving them. Emotional problems are often the mind and body's way of saying that something needs to be changed in our life.

Young Minds is the UK's only national charity committed to improving the mental health and emotional well-being of all children and young people.

Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) has been proven to help mental health problems.  Get.gg is a local website that offers CBT self-help information, resources and tools, including therapy worksheets.

BEAT is the UK's only nationwide organisation supporting people affected by eating disorders, their family members and friends, and campaigning on their behalf. They are the world's largest eating disorders charity. Beat's vision is simple: eating disorders will be beaten

Stress Management.co.uk has been specializing since 1994, in the use of meditation techniques to reduce stress & anxiety, providing practical help in transforming destructive emotions such as anger and fear, and enabling the cultivation of positive emotions such as self-compassion, forgiveness, love and gratitude, helping us connect with ourselves, others (relationships) and nature.

The Centre for Stress Management, established in 1987, is an international training centre and stress consultancy. It provides stress management and prevention programmes, cognitive behavioural therapy training and coaching, stress audits and research, and stress counselling. 

The STEPS site will tell you all about common stress problems and give you some ideas on how best to tackle them.

NHS Choices offers more tips on how to manage different causes of stress and advice on relaxation methods.

Your mental wellbeing - some people call it happiness - is affected by what you do and the way you think. Find out the five steps you can take to improve your mental wellbeing.

If you need to talk:

The Samaritans are a 24 hour a day service for people who are experiencing feelings of despair, including those which may lead to suicide.

The Mental Health Forum enables you to discuss mental health issues on line.

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