📚 The Home of Mental Health Resources and Wellbeing Guides. Providing free and open-source content to help you improve your mental health and wellbeing in a clear and structured way.
ℹ️ Developing better coping skills, strategies, tools and techniques can be very difficult to manage and navigate.
- Explore our resources to inspire your creativity and find additional ways of coping which works for you.
- If you need support developing better ways of coping, you can contact us to speak to a trained volunteer.
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Search Resources by Category
All resources and tools are divided into into the following categories. Browse through what is relative to you, or use the search bar to be more specific.
🛠️ Universal Toolkit
Common strategies and tools we can use on a daily basis to improve our overall wellbeing.
🛟 Crisis Management
Tools used during really difficult times or when you’re experiencing a Mental Health Crisis.
💡 Mental Health Awareness
Tackling the taboos and stigma surrounding mental health and suicide prevention head on.
🏃 Health & Wellness
Both the mind and body are interconnected. Improve your overall physical health with these wellbeing resources.
🌊 Mood Management
Explore coping strategies to help improve mood and manage difficult feelings.
🌳 Mindfulness
Learn to remain ‘in the moment’. Help ground yourself with these mindful resources.
😰 Anxiety & Stress Busting
Calm and slow anxious thoughts and feelings. Find ways to ground yourself and reassure your worry with these coping strategies.
😴 Relaxation & Sleep
High quality sleep clears our minds and gives us energy to do the things that matter most. Explore these resources to calm our bodies and improve sleep routine.
📰 News & Announcements
Stay up-to-date with the development and work of Conversing Care.
🖱️ Community Forum TBA
Community generated resources and lived-experience knowledge.
Newsletter for better mental health
Coping strategies, tips & guides, straight in your inbox!
Guidance
It is easy to list the negatives, so lets go through positives steps you can make.
How to Get The Most Out of Mental Health Resources
- Browse when you are feeling safe and well: These resources are to inspire your creativity, not to upset you.
- Follow Trigger Warnings: We mark content which could be Triggering for some users with Trigger Warnings (TWs). If you are feeling unsettled, please avoid TW content.
- Make sure you tailor content to suit you: There is not ‘one size fits all’. We are all individuals with very different needs. Make changes to coping strategies and tailor them to your personal needs. If you need help with this, you can contact us and we can help you.
- Communicate with others: Sometimes when working on your personal development, it’s important to share with people your close with and health professionals what you are trying to achieve. They can share their thoughts and feelings, helping you develop more robust strategies.
- Ask for help: It’s tough to make positive life changes, specially when mental health challenges are causing distress. We can help you improve your wellbeing by helping you lay out what concerns you have, find tools and support to help you, and create a plan to achieve realistic goals.
Recognising The Importance of Coping Strategies
Coping strategies are behaviours we use to deal with stress. They tend to come in two types, healthy and unhealthy.
Unhealthy coping strategies are very effective in the short term but the long-term effects can cause physical and mental damage such as drinking alcohol, smoking, drug abuse or self-harm.
Healthy coping strategies don’t cause us harm but take time to establish such as lifestyle changes, personal and professional development.
Different people will find different techniques work better for them.
Coping strategies can have several benefits but key impacts are:
- Better mood regulation
- Anxiety and stress relief
- Achieving manageable goals
Misinformation surrounding mental health is a big problem
Specially on social media as well as online, misinformation and just out-right lies about mental health is a much bigger problem to what people believe.
Protect yourself by making sure you are finding the most accurate information possible so you can make a well arounded and formed decision if you so choose to catch out something you want to try for yourself.
Check and compare information from multiple sources. Government, Trusted medical and charitable organisations are a good place to start. gov.uk nhs.uk samaritans.org
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