If you are struggling with your Mental Health and are looking for support and advice, please see below list of Self Help resources and UH Services available to you.
Please also see our Student Wellbeing Services page for further support and advice.
We recommend
- Big White Wall - interactive online support
(free to join in Hertfordshire, just enter your postcode when prompted) - Living Life to the Full
- Mental Health Foundation - wellbeing podcasts
- Mind Leaflet - About schizophrenia
- Mind Leaflet - Bipolar disorder
- Mind leaflet -Personality disorders
- Personality Disorders -information leaflet by The Royal College of Psychiatrists
- First Person Plural -dissociative identity disorders association
- Mind Leaflet - How to improve your mental wellbeing
- Mind Leaflet - How to manage stress
- Mind Leaflet - Relaxation
- Self Help Leaflet - Relaxation
- Student Wellbeing Mindfulness podcasts
Other sources of support
| Centre for Clinical Interventions |
A Western Australian Government programme providing self help resources on a number of topics including Bipolar Disorder. |
| HelpGuide | A series of American guides on a variety of common mental and emotional health issues (e.g. anxiety, bipolar disorder, depression, stress etc) |
| Student Minds |
Student Minds is a UK student mental health charity. They have created two interactive guides:
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| The Mix |
A really useful site for all student related issues. |
| The Recovery Letters |
A website that showcases letters of recovery. There are varies letters on the website that contain a number of different issues, you can also write your own letter and send it to them. Very moving and inspirational. |
Free 24/7 Helpline via Health Assured:
Alongside our inhouse service, we have a Student Assistance Programme, called Health Assured. If you want to speak to someone more immediately about a difficulty you are experiencing, you can speak with a trained therapist anytime, 24 hours per day, 7 days a week, on the freephone helpline 0800 028 3766.
You can have support if you are feeling low, depressed, or anxious or experiencing difficult life events. You can also call if you need financial, legal, non-urgent medical advice. Qualified counsellors are available to respond to your call as well as a team specialised in the areas of bereavement, finance, law and medical care. Further support and resources are available on the Wisdom App, available at: https://wisdom.healthassured.org/login which you can access by using the University of Hertfordshire code: MHA191133