RECOMMENDED RESOURCES

• Anxiety UK: www.anxietyuk.org.uk

• Bipolar UK: www.bipolaruk.org

• CALM: www.thecalmzone.net Phone: 0800 58 58 58 (daily, 5pm to midnight)

CALM is the Campaign Against Living Miserably, for men aged 15 to 35.

• Men’s Health Forum: www.menshealthforum.org.uk

• Mental Health Foundation: www.mentalhealth.org.uk

Men’s mental health: https://www.mentalhealth.org.uk/a-to-z/m/men-and-mental-health

• Mind: www.mind.org.uk Phone: 0300 123 3393 (Monday to Friday, 9am to 6pm)

• No Panic: www.nopanic.org.uk Phone: 0844 967 4848 (daily, 10am to 10pm). Calls cost 5p per minute plus your phone provider’s Access Charge

Voluntary charity offering support for sufferers of panic attacks and obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD).

• OCD Action: www.ocdaction.org.uk Phone: 0845 390 6232 (Monday to Friday, 9.30am to 5pm). Calls cost 5p per minute plus your phone provider’s Access Charge

• OCD UK: www.ocduk.org Phone: 0333 212 7890 (Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm)

• PAPYRUS: www.papyrus-uk.org Phone: HOPElineUK 0800 068 4141 (Monday to Friday, 10am to 5pm and 7pm to 10pm, and 2pm to 5pm on weekends)

Young suicide prevention society.

• Rethink Mental Illness: www.rethink.org Phone: 0300 5000 927 (Monday to Friday, 9.30am to 4pm)

• Samaritans: www.samaritans.org.uk Phone: 116 123 (free 24-hour helpline)

• SANE: www.sane.org.uk/support SANEline: 0300 304 7000 (daily, 4.30pm to 10.30pm)

Textcare: comfort and care via text message, sent when the person needs it most

• YoungMinds: www.youngminds.org.uk Phone: Parents’ helpline 0808 802 5544 (Monday to Friday, 9.30am to 4pm)

• Time to change: https://www.time-to-change.org.uk/mental-health-and-stigma/help-and-support

Stopping the stigma of mental health

• The Mix: www.themix.org.uk/get-support Telephone: 0808 808 4994 (11am-11pm, free to call) Email: Helpline email form Crisis Support: Text ‘THEMIX’ to 85258.

• ChildLine: www.childline.org.uk Telephone: 0800 1111

• Side by Side: https://sidebyside.mind.org.uk

• SHOUT: https://www.giveusashout.org Text: 85258

• With You: https://www.wearewithyou.org.uk

Provides support to children and adults addicted to alcohol or drugs and gives advice on improving mental health and wellbeing.