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As well as accessing help from St George’s Counselling Service, Student Life Centre, or tutors, there is wealth of support available to students online. 

The brief list below includes links to NHS resources as well as apps, podcasts and websites of charities dedicated to supporting the mental health and wellbeing of students and young people.

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Self Assessment

The NHS Mental health tools page offers lots of useful resources including:

  • wellbeing self assessment
  • mood self assessment
  • depression self assessment
  • mental health video wall
  • lift your mood video wall.
Online cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) courses
Living Life To The Full

Free online courses covering low mood and stress. Work out why you feel as you do, how to tackle problems, build confidence, get going again, feel happier, stay calm, tackle upsetting thinking and more.

MoodGYM

Learn cognitive behavioural therapy skills for preventing and coping with depression with MoodGYM.

Apps and podcasts
Headspace

Headspace have a mobile app which makes practicing mindfulness much easier! Helping you learn easy techniques that you can transfer from the session into your everyday life. You can sign up for a free trial and start your meditation practice with a 10-day beginner’s course.

Mental Health Foundation

Listen to episodes of the 'Let’s Talk: Mental Health' podcast, which gets together with different people and experts to chat about mental health and explore the topics that can affect how we think and feel.

Happify

An app aimed at developing skills in order to boost emotional wellbeing.

Useful websites
Student Minds

Student Minds is the UK's student mental health charity. Their website features lots of really useful resources on a variety of topics, including:

Good Thinking

Digital mental health and wellbeing support for Londoners.

Mental Health Foundation

The Mental Health Foundation offers a range of information to inform and encourage a greater understanding of how to look after your mental health, as well as an A-Z guide of mental health

Calm (Campaign Against Living Miserably)

The Campaign Against Living Miserably is a charity that exists to prevent male suicide in the UK. They run a dedicated support line and webchat for men who are experiencing emotional distress or who are in crisis.

Papyrus

Papyrus is the national charity for the prevention of young suicide. It runs HOPELINE247, a dedicated suicide prevention hotline for anyone up to the age of 35 who may be feeling suicidal or anyone who is concerned about a young person.

Phone 0800 068 4141 (Lines are open 24 hours every day of the year, weekends and bank holidays included).

Students Against Depression

Students Against Depression provides you with a calm environment and the resources to help you find a way forward - a website offering advice, information and guidance to those affected by low mood, depression and suicidal thinking.

 

 

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