How you can help yourself
TAKING STEPS TOWARDS POSITIVE CHANGE
NHS Lanarkshire Psychological Services aim to improve psychological wellbeing, and make a positive difference to people’s lives. But that doesn’t mean we ‘fix’ or ‘cure’ people.
Instead, it’s about helping you make changes in your own life. Much of what we do is about helping you to help yourself.
Of course, you don’t always need us in order to help yourself. On this page we’ll link you to other sources of useful mental-health advice and support – all of which we’d recommend.
Mind To Mind
SCOTLAND’S NEW WELLBEING WEBSITE
Mind to Mind is a new national website designed to help us all look after our mental wellbeing. Just like Lanarkshire Mind Matters, it will keep on developing and expanding, and we are proud to partner with it. Mind to Mind has launched with more than 30 videos from different people talking about how they’ve overcome different challenges, and sharing tips for how to cope with anxiety, panic, stress, poor sleep, low mood and grief. It also features a range of professionals sharing their own advice – including psychologist Dr Deborah Lee with some fantastic advice about how we can be kinder to ourselves.
Mind to Mind is part of NHS Inform – read on to find out more.
NHS Inform self-help
SCOTLAND’S SOURCE OF TRUSTED HEALTH INFORMATION ONLINE
NHS Inform is Scotland’s national health information service. It contains trusted, accurate and reliable health information – including a range of mental health resources. Visit the NHS Inform mental health pages for information, advice and self-help for difficulties including anxiety, depression, sleep problems, panic and much, much more.
Self-help in other languages
SUGGESTIONS TO TRY
Royal College of Psychiatrists
The UK Royal College of Psychiatrists has a wide range of mental-health information translated into multiple different languages available on their site.
The Embrace Project
The Embrace Project is an Australian initiative to provide information in languages other than English. It has translated materials in different languages, grouped by mental-health subject.
NHS Inform
NHS Inform also has some translated materials, including BSL advice about mental health and wellbeing. However, the focus in its translated materials is generally on physical conditions.
Please note that Lanarkshire Mind Matters cannot guarantee the accuracy of information held on any sites to which we link.
Free online courses available to everyone
LEARN NEW SKILLS TO TACKLE COMMON MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS
Living Life to the Full provides a range of self-help courses online. The courses themselves are free, with a charge if you want the accompanying books – though some of these books are available for free in local libraries. The site gets more than 25 million visits a year, and has helped hundreds of thousands of people. Click the link below to find out more and sign up for a course.
Covid-19
SKILLS FOR COPING IN THESE CHALLENGING TIMES
If you’ve seen our page about psychological wellbeing during Covid-19 then you’ve maybe seen these links … but we think they’re worth repeating. And if you haven’t seen our Covid page, just click here to go straight to it.
Russ Harris’s Face Covid is one of the best coronavirus coping resources there is, and you’ll find links to both his video and booklet in this section.
The NHS Inform website has a whole coronavirus section, which is regularly updated. It has mental health information and much more.