Improve Your Mental Health!

Physical health affects Mental Health Problems:
Mental Health Problems arise when a problem, life event or situation, disrupts the way we think and feel. This can either be temporary – for example, following a bereavement – or be more enduring. Mental health problems can include suffering stress, constant worrying…
moremental health and vice versa. If we can improve one, benefits to the other are sure to follow.

Improving our coping-skills can help us avoid Mental Health Problems:
Mental Health Problems arise when a problem, life event or situation, disrupts the way we think and feel. This can either be temporary – for example, following a bereavement – or be more enduring. Mental health problems can include suffering stress, constant worrying…
moremental health problems, while learning how to help others can teach us how to help ourselves too.

Increasing our knowledge of mental health issues and how problems can arise makes us more likely to spot problems early when they're easier to tackle.

There are plenty of things we can do to make things better if we're feeling down, stressed, anxious or unwell.

How are you right now?

It's important to know how our mental health is right now, whether we're flourishing, struggling a little or have an identifiable mental health problem. Take our Quick Quiz for a rough guide.

First Steps

Quick tests for Stress:
To have some pressure in our lives is normal and, indeed, unavoidable! Stress is the name given to what happens when pressure becomes excessive and exceeds the individual's ability to cope. Stress damages physical and mental health and can be a trigger for…
morestress and on general Mental Health Problems:
Mental Health Problems arise when a problem, life event or situation, disrupts the way we think and feel. This can either be temporary – for example, following a bereavement – or be more enduring. Mental health problems can include suffering stress, constant worrying…
moremental health and a helpful list of things to consider before visiting a doctor or healthcare practitioner.

Physical Health

Physical health affects mental health and vice versa. Check out our page of links to advice and information on healthy eating, exercise, tobacco, drugs and alcohol.

Top Tips

Browse our ever-expanding archive of ideas for maintaining and improving your mental health and wellbeing.

Top Tips for Winter Wellbeing

Staying both mentally and physically healthy during the winter months can be challenging. Check out some tips for staying well during the long, dark nights.

Self-Help and Learning for Recovery

What exactly is 'self-help'? What's it good for? How can it help? Discover what's meant by 'Recovery:
Recovery from long-term mental health problems is about much more than the mere absence of symptoms. It is not about being fixed or back to normal. It is about having the chance to live a satisfying and fulfilling life, as defined by the individual, with or without symptoms.
morerecovery' and why it's important. Plus: links to self-help resources.

Advice, Treatments and Supports

Ever wondered what's involved in the various types of treatment and supports available? Want to know about drug treatments or what a counsellor can do for you? Find out here.