Christmas is a time of year that often puts extra pressure on us, and can affect our mental health in lots of different ways. Add to that concerns about the omicron variant and those pressures could increase.
We wanted to highlight a few resources that some of you may find useful over the coming weeks.
- Action for Happiness – a very positive and practical outlook  Action for Happiness . This is also worth taking a look at, and it links to the 5 ways to wellbeing. How to be Happy Â
- Mindline now has a local and freephone number, which you can see in the image below. Mindline is the front door to the community mental health services, Â Open Mental Health
- Crisis Safe Space –  Crisis Safe Space – Mind in Somerset  – this is a new, out-of-hours support for anyone who feels like they are really struggling with their mental health.
- A useful list of support for young people and their parents  Winter Wellness Bulletin
- There are two important bereavement services that may be useful to anyone dealing with loss over the Christmas period;
- Enhanced bereavement support – Tel: 0800 3047 412 Bereavement Support during the Covid-19 pandemic – Mind in Somerset
- Suicide bereavement support –Â Somerset Suicide Bereavement Support Service – Mind in Somerset
- Every Mind Matters website is continually adding and adapting the support available and includes wider healthy lifestyle issues alongside emotional health . Every Mind Matters – NHS (www.nhs.uk).
- Get Outside in Somerset  –  seeks to empower and support people across Somerset to get outside and move in more ways that suit them. To support the project go to  www.getoutsideinsomerset.co.uk – which provides a platform for tips, advice and guidance on how to keep or get active outdoors. They have also produced a video, this can be viewed/shared here:  Get Outside In Somerset – YouTube
- NHS mental health app library – NHS have since removed these apps but they are available from Rehab 4 Addition’s website ( https://www.rehab4addiction.co.uk/mental-health).
- Somerset Recovery College – These courses are for the benefit of people who wish to learn to live well, for their family and friends and for the professionals who support them. Somerset Recovery College: Free courses for recovery and better mental health. – Somerset Recovery College
- Suicide prevention – Suicide can affect anybody and there isn’t a community in Somerset where people haven’t been touched by suicide. It is important that we all feel ok to talk about suicide. If you would like to learn more please go to  Covid 19 – working together to prevent suicide – Healthy Somerset.
- A new national suicide prevention internet safety tool was launched on World Suicide Prevention Day. R;pple aims to minimise the risks of the internet, while harnessing its potential for good. It can easily be installed on computers R;pple Suicide Prevention (ripplesuicideprevention.com)
- Shaking loose the winter blues –Â CALM at Christmas: The winter blues – Campaign Against LIving Miserably (thecalmzone.net)
