Mental Health

Positive steps for feeling good

Make time to relax

Try to make time for yourself and do something that helps you unwind like reading, music, meditation or prayer. Whatever suits you? Although it can be hard to relax, you can learn relaxation skills by listening to a CD. Your GP or local library may be able to help you with this.

More positive steps

Also in Your Health

It's easy to think that mental health issues don't concern us but in fact a quarter of us will have problems with our mental wellbeing at some time in our lives.

The links below provide information to some of the local services and organisations in Sheffield and elsewhere.

Sheffield Well Being Festival 29 July 2011

Sheffield Mental Health Week is pleased to announce our Wellbeing Festival will this year be held on Fargate. From 10am on 29 July you will be treated to a variety of stalls, activities and even stilt walkers all coming together in celebration of wellbeing and to let people know about the range of services the city has to offer those with mental health conditions and their carers.

The focus of the day will be on emphasising the steps we can each take to promote and look after our own mental wellbeing, including physical activity,so we will also be offering a variety of taster sessions throughout the day ranging from zumba to boxercise and parachute games. There is the opportunity to walk a mile for wellbeing, listen to music and much more! For more information and contact details, download the flyer

Sheffield Well Being Festival 29 July 2011 Flyer (728kb pdf)

Mental Health in the Workplace: Skills for Line Managers

Line Managers play an important role in helping employees to do their job effectively. This course aims to improve Manager's skills and confidence to identify mental health problems early, and to know what practical steps to take. This one day interactive course is aimed at Managers from any sector, and is offered free. Places are currently available on 13 July 2011 and 14 September 2011. Download a flyer, including details how to apply, below.
Download the Mental Health in the Workplace: Skills for Line Managers Flyer (402kb pdf, opens in a new window)

Mental Health First Aid training

Mental health problems are common. However, people often have little understanding of mental health or mental health problems, although they are aware of the associated stigma. Some people may lack the insight to realise that they need help or that help is available, or if they come across someone who is suffering with a mental health problem they may not know how to respond. Mental Health First Aid training can help.
Go to Mental Health First Aid training

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Because life doesn’t come with instructions, the NHS in Sheffield have teamed up with Exposed magazine to put real life problems to the health professionals, readers of the magazine who have been through them before and Exposed writers.
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iapt - Improving Access to Psychological Therapies

Our aim is to provide psychological treatments, sometimes called talking treatments, to help people who are stressed, be that feeling low in mood (depressed) or very nervous (anxiety).

See the Sheffield iapt website for full details.

Local courses and workshops

Stress Control course

Healthy Living workshops

Self-help leaflets

Northumberland, Tyne & Wear NHS Trust have produced a range of self-help leaflets covering topics such as depression, panic, sleep problems and stress.
The leaflets are available from the Northumberland, Tyne & Wear NHS Trust website.

Useful websites and resources

Depression in adults: quick reference guide - NICE (978kb pdf, opens in a new window)

Mental health information and advice on NHS Choices

NHS Direct mental health symptom checker

Samaritans

Sheffield Mental Health Guide

Sheffield Mind

Staying Mentally Healthy Following Redundancy (832kb pdf, opens in a new window)

Time to change - let's end mental health discrimination

Mental healthcare - Online support for families and friends of people with psychosis

Perinatal Mental Health Service
A specialist mental health service for women with mental health problems who are thinking of becoming pregnant, are already pregnant or have given birth in the last 12 months.

BBC Headroom website

Sheffield Health & Social Care Trust