Supporting your mental wellbeing

Mind is a mental health charity that provides a free helpline and lots of useful resources to help. Visit Mind’s 'Get help now' page where you'll find quick links to emergency advice and other helplines, crisis-coping tools and guidance on how to ask your doctor for help. Mind also has resources if you're seeking help for someone else.

A very good source of information and support is the NHS Every Mind Matters website. There are practical guides to managing mental health issues as well as signposts to organisations and helplines that could make a huge difference to your emotional wellbeing. 

The NHS mood self-assessment tool is a quick way of helping you assess how you’re feeling and get support. 

The NHS audio guides give practical tips to boost your mood (it's a maximum of 10 minutes long) and lots of useful resources for a range of mental health topics such as stress, anxiety, feeling lonely, grief, anger, low self-esteem and depression. 

You might also like to try the NHS Mind Plan Quiz to get tips and advice tailored to support your needs. Just answer five questions to get your personalised mind plan from Public Health England to help you get through.

If you’re in need of support your employer may have a wellbeing or mental health policy that can help you or they may offer a package of support during the redundancy process. Look out for Employee Assistance programmes where you can get free help and advice or be directed to mental health first aiders who can support you.