Mental Health and Illness Support

• Student Services: the College Student Services teams dedicated can support you with practical and emotional issues impacting your wellbeing or mental health and aspects of College life, including referrals for counselling 
•  Togetherall: both students and staff can access the online community, which supports populations with their mental health and wellbeing – helping with feels of anxiety, depression, isolation and stress, to relationship problems and lifestyle challenges. Togetherall have a network of trained professionals providing 24/7 support around the world.  

If you’re in crisis and need to talk right now, there are many helplines staffed by trained people ready to listen. They won’t judge you, and could help you make sense of what you’re feeling.  

• Samaritans. To talk about anything that is upsetting you, you can contact Samaritans 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. You can call 116 123  
• SANEline. If you’re experiencing a mental health problem or supporting someone else, you can call SANEline on 0300 304 7000 (4.30pm–10.30pm every day). 
• The Mix. If you’re under 25, you can call The Mix on 0808 808 4994 (Sunday-Friday 2pm–11pm). 
• Papyrus HOPELINEUK. If you’re under 35 and struggling with suicidal feelings, or concerned about a young person who might be struggling, you can call Papyrus HOPELINEUK on 0800 068 4141 (weekdays 10am-10pm, weekends 2pm-10pm and bank holidays 2pm–10pm). 

• Campaign Against Living Miserably (CALM). If you identify as male, you can call the Campaign Against Living Miserably (CALM) on 0800 58 58 58 (5pm–midnight every day) or use their web chat service. 
• Helplines Partnership. For more options, visit the Helplines Partnership website for a directory of UK helplines. Mind’s Info line can also help you find services that can support you. If you’re outside the UK, the Befrienders Worldwide website has a tool to search by country for emotional support helplines around the world. 

• Anxiety UK: Charity providing support if you have been diagnosed with an anxiety condition.  
• Bipolar UK:  A charity helping people living with manic depression or bipolar disorder.  

• Men’s Health Forum: 24/7 stress support for men by text, chat and email. 
• Mental Health Foundation: Provides information and support for anyone with mental health problems or learning disabilities. 
• Mind: Promotes the views and needs of people with mental health problems. 
• No Panic: Voluntary charity offering support for sufferers of panic attacks and obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). Offers a course to help overcome your phobia or OCD. 
• OCD Action: Support for people with OCD. Includes information on treatment and online resources. 

• Rethink Mental Illness: Support and advice for people living with mental illness. 
• Cruse Bereavement Care: Support for those struggling with bereavement. 
• SMART Recovery UK: SMART Recovery UK face-to-face and online groups help people decide whether they have a problem with alcohol and drugs, build up their motivation to change, and offer a set of proven tools and techniques to support recovery. 
• Beat: The UK’s national eating disorder charity. 
• Mencap: Charity working with people with a learning disability, their families and carers. 

• Black Thrive: an organisation that aims to end the stigma associated with mental health and address mental health inequalities experienced by Black communities. 
• Chinese Mental Health Association: an organisation that is involved in providing direct services, increasing mental health awareness and representing Chinese mental health issues in public forums and raising its profile in the overall Chinese community. 
• CIO: a group of individuals who are seeking to setup a network of information and service centres to help assist UK Indians gain access to help and support concerning mental health.  

• Jami UK: Jami is the specialist provider of mental health services in the Jewish community. 
• Muslim Community Helpline: a national organisation providing listening and emotional support service for members of the Muslim community in the UK.  
• Sharing Voices: a charity in Bradford that aims to reduce mental health and related inequalities for BAME communities. 
• Sikh Your Mind: aims to increase awareness of mental health difficulties in the Sikh community. 
• The Black, African and Asian Therapy Network: are the UK’s largest independent organisation to specialise in working psychologically, informed by an understanding of intersectionality, with people who identify as Black, African, South Asian and Caribbean.

• Antidote: a service that offers information and support exclusively to LGBT+ people around drugs, alcohol and addiction.   
• Pink Therapy: has a directory listing qualified therapists throughout the UK who work with the LGBT+ community from a positive stance.  
• Switchboard: A one-stop listening service for LGBT+ people on the phone, email and instant messaging service.

• Being Alongside: a national Christian-based voluntary association that recognises the importance of spiritual values and support in mental health.  
• Jami UK: Jami is the specialist provider of mental health services in the Jewish community. 
• Mental Health 4 Muslims:  is an American website that give information about mental health issues that are both clinically supported and helpful for Islamic people.  
• Muslim Community Helpline: a national organisation providing listening and emotional support service for members of the Muslim community in the UK.  

• Sikh Your Mind: aims to increase awareness of mental health difficulties in the Sikh community. 
• Spiritual Crisis Network: recognise the link between mental health and spirituality for some people and have support groups across the country.