Self-Help at Home

• You can use the NHS app to: 
  • Booking appointments. 
  • Viewing your medical record. 
  • Ordering repeat prescriptions. 
  • Checking symptoms. 
  • Finding up-to-date coronavirus advice. 
• You can find out more about the app on the NHS website. 

Tellmi App  

• On the Tellmi app. Tellmi provides free digital mental health support, 365 days a year (on Android, IOS, and the web) to anyone aged 11+ across Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland. Tellmi enables people to help themselves by helping each other. The community is anonymous and age-banded. Tellmi offers 1-2-1 text-based, solution-focused therapy with a qualified therapist. This therapeutic model is designed to help individuals think positively about their future and identify existing skills and strengths.

• Reflective journal

• Alcohol use
• NHS self-help guide: Alcohol and you  
• Drugs

• Mind - Recreational drugs and alcohol information. 
• Turning Point - Support service offering a variety of treatment options for alcohol and substance use. 
• Frank - Honest information about drugs. 
• Drink aware - Information and advice. 
• Alcoholics Anonymous - Support with personal recovery and continued sobriety of individual alcoholics. 
• Narcotics Anonymous - Open to anyone with a drug problem seeking help. 

• Anger Management
• NHS – Controlling Anger 
• Mind – How to cope with Anger 

• Respect - Information and support for people who are worried about their violent or aggressive behaviour towards loved ones. 

• Anxiety
• NHS guide - Anxiety 

• Let’s Talk Wellbeing - Providing NHS psychological therapies. 
• Mind UK - Self-care for anxiety 
• Anxiety UK - Advice and support. 
• No panic - Provides information, support and advice for those with panic disorder, anxiety, phobias and OCD. 
• Living Life to the Full - Offers help for mild to moderate depression, anxiety and insomnia. 
• Anxiety online workshop - An online workshop about anxiety and looking at ways you may be able to manage it. 

• Bereavement
• NHS guide - Bereavement 
• Mind guide - Bereavement 

• Cruse Bereavement Care - Offer advice and support for those affected by bereavement. 
• SOBS (Survivors of bereavement by suicide) - Advice and support for those bereaved by suicide. 

• Domestic abuse in relationships
• NHS guide – Domestic Violence  

• UAVA (United against Violence and Abuse) - A consortium of three local specialist providers of domestic abuse and sexual violence services. 

• Student Services KnowViolence Campaign – on domestic and sexual violence and stalking  
• Loughborough University Incident Reporting: Domestic Violence 

You can also find more information about romantic relationships and conflicts by having a look at the Student Services webpage linked below.

 

• Eating problems
• NHS guide – Eating disorders 
• Mind guide – Eating problems  

• Beat - giving individuals experiencing an eating disorder and their loved ones a place where they feel listened to, supported and empowered. 
• EDISS (Eating Disorders in Student Services) - EDISS is run by First Steps  and offers the following services, Peer support, Counselling, Recovery and Self-Help Groups, Online Befriending, Drop-in support and Volunteering opportunities.

You can find more information about eating disorders by having a look at the Student Services webpage linked blow.

• Exam stress
• Stress less pack
• NHS guide - Stress 
• Mind guide - Stress 

• Loneliness
• Homesickness
• Mind guide - Loneliness
  

• Medical Issues PDF self-help information

You can find more information on injury and sickness by having a look at the Student Services webpage linked blow. 

• Rape and sexual assault

• UAVA (United against Violence and Abuse) - A consortium of three local specialist providers of domestic abuse and sexual violence services. 

• Student Services Know violence campaign - on domestic and sexual violence and stalking. 
• Loughborough University Incident Reporting: Sexual Violence

You can find more information about being a victim of crime by having a look at the Student Services webpage linked below.

• Relationships and sexual problems
• Revenge porn 

• Relate - The UK's largest provider of relationship support including counselling. 

You can find more information about sexual health and romantic relationships and conflicts by having a look at the Student Services webpages linked below.

• NHS: Self-harm, a self help guide - An NHS webpage including information on how people may self-harm and why, how other people might react, ways to stop harming yourself and longer term solutions, and how you can support a friend or family member who is self-harming.
  
• The National Self Harm Network: What is self harm?- A webpage explaining what self harm is, who self harms and why.
  
• The National Self-Harm Network: Distractions that can help - A booklet containing suggested mechanisms for distracting from self-harm.
  
• Mind also has a page for if you need to help yourself now.
  

• Harmless is a user led organisation that provides a range of services about self-harm and suicide prevention including support, information, training and consultancy to people who self-harm, their friends and families and professionals and those at risk of suicide.
  
• Mind has a website explaining self-harm, including possible causes and how you can access treatment and support. Includes tips for helping yourself, and guidance for friends and family.
  
• The Mix has an article containing information on self-harm distractions and coping strategies.
  

You can find more information about self-harm by having a look at the Student Services webpage linked below.

• Sexuality

• Leicester LGBT+ Centre - Provide information on a wide range of subjects that affect LGBT+ people’s lives including signposting and referrals to other agencies.
  
• LSU LGBT Association - Provide a support network for every student who identifies as lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and all other denominations of sexuality and gender.
  

• Insomnia
• NHS guide – Sleeping Problems  
• Students Against Depression – sleep log 
• Sleep app – sleep trackers and programme to help treat insomnia 
• Mind – how to cope with sleeping problems  

• Sleep and tiredness - NHS
  
• 10 tips to help insomnia - NHS
  
• Living Life to the Full - Offers help for mild to moderate depression, anxiety and insomnia
  
• UK Sleep Survey 2018 
• The Sleep Council
  
• World Sleep Day - Philips
  

• Suicidal thoughts and feelings  
• Mind guide – How to cope with suicidal feelings  

• Urgent help - details of NHS services to contact in a crisis. 
• Calm - Provides listening services, information and support for men at risk of suicide 
• Samaritans - 24 hour emotional support for anyone struggling to cope. 
• SOBS (Survivors Of Bereavement by suicide) - Advice and support for those bereaved by suicide.