NHS Mental health
Find information and support for your mental health.
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NHS: Mental healthKooth
Free anonymous online chat for young people to discuss their mental health issues.
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KoothSamaritans
Samaritans offer a safe place for you to talk any time you like, in your own way – about whatever’s getting to you. You don’t have to be suicidal. Call Samaritans free, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
Phone
116 123
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Samaritans
Email
jo@samaritans.orgRethink Mental Illness
Rethink Mental Illness provide expert, accredited advice and information to everyone affected by mental health problems.
Phone
0121 522 7007
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Rethink Mental Illness
Email
info@rethink.orgMind
Mind provide advice and support to empower anyone experiencing a mental health problem. They campaign to improve services, raise awareness and promote understanding.
Phone
0300 123 3393
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MindMind (BLMK)
Mind BLMK (Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes) provide advice and support to empower anyone experiencing a mental health problem. They campaign to improve services, raise awareness and promote understanding.
Phone
0300 330 0648
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www.mind-blmk.org.ukCAMHS Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
The Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) delivered by East London NHS Foundation Trust is part of a wider network of services that offer help and support to children and young people who have mental health difficulties and their families/carers.
Phone
01234 893 301
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www.camhs.elft.nhs.ukCHUMS
CHUMS currently delivers nine services across Luton & Bedfordshire, although not all are available in both areas. Supporting children and young people is at the heart of everything they do, and they are passionate about supporting as many children and young people as possible.
Phone
01525 863 924
Website
www.chums.uk.com/bedfordshire-services
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info@chums.uk.comBedfordshire Wellbeing Services
The Bedfordshire Wellbeing Service offers a range of free and confidential talking therapies and specialist support to help you feel better.
Phone
01234 880 400
Website
www.bedfordshirewellbeingservice.nhs.ukShinyMind
Used by clinicians and now prescribed by clinicians, ShinyMind is a mental health and wellbeing app that has been co-designed with NHS staff and is now available to you as a wellbeing prescription, to help you live better with your condition and feel happier.
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www.shinymind.co.ukSocial Prescribing Dunstable & District CAB
The Social Prescribing service is designed to help people with a range of problems that are not medical, but have a direct impact on their sense of wellbeing.
We will listen to you; find out what is important to you and start to make an action plan to tackle your worries at a pace that suits you. It is designed for people who may be socially isolated or have practical and emotional needs that affect their health and is a free service.
They offer advice and support on a range of issues including claiming benefits, money worries, housing, relationships, social isolation and employment issues.
Phone
01582 670003
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Social Prescribing – DunstableBedfordshire and Luton Recovery Service
In partnership with East London Foundation Partnership Trust (ELFT) and The University of Bedfordshire, Recovery Colleges offer a wide range of free courses and workshops to everyone living and working in Bedfordshire and Luton, which are recovery focused, and aim to provide strategies and techniques for individuals to use in their daily lives to promote self management.
Phone
01234 263 621
Email
elft.recoverycollege@nhs.net