Wellbeing tools
myWellbeing
Our free myWellbeing app provides you with the tools to start building healthy, positive habits into your everyday life.
Togetherall
Togetherall is a digital mental health support service which is available online, 24/7, and is completely anonymous so you can express yourself freely and openly.
External Organisations
There are a number of external organisations which provide a great deal of information and resources which might help you find out more about mental health issues.
Mental Health Foundation
A charity aimed at improving the lives of those with mental health problems or learning difficulties.
Samaritans
Available 24 hours a day to provide confidential emotional support for people who are experiencing feelings of distress, despair or suicidal thoughts.
Students Against Depression
Offers advice, information, guidance and resources to those affected by low mood, depression and suicidal thinking.
Student Minds
Student Minds is the UK’s student mental health charity. They empower students and members of the university community to look after their own mental health, support others and create change.
Student Space
Student Space is here to make it easier for you to find the support that you need during the coronavirus pandemic.
UKCISA (mental health support in the UK for international students)
Information from UKCISA for international students including links to useful organisations.
National helplines (including out of hours support)
This document contains a number of useful organisation and charity helplines that support individuals experiencing emotional difficulties (including mental health crises).
If you are still unsure or worried about your mental health, please speak to a professional.
Apps
Calm Harm
This app can be used to help the user manage urges to self-harm. It's a private app and can be password protected. The help and advice provides suggestions of 5-15 minute categorised activities that can help the user 'ride the wave' of an urge to self-harm. The user is signposted to resources that the app determines may be helpful. These suggestions are based on the user's answers to questions about what triggered their urge to self-harm.
Self-help Anxiety Management
This app is helpful for helping the user manage their anxiety. The anxiety tracker can help the user better understand things that make them anxious, whilst the self-help toolkit allows them to learn new skills around anxiety management. Some people have found this app helpful to use whilst waiting to access further long-term support or to build on their existing anxiety management skills.
Stay Alive
Stay Alive is a free suicide prevention app that helps its users to stay safe from acting on their thoughts of suicide. Downloading this app means that the help and information someone may need when managing thoughts of suicide is easily accessible, helping them to stay safe.
Student Health App
If you're a student with a physical or mental health problem and are not sure what to do next, simply open the app to learn when it's safe to manage self-treatable health problems yourself, find out how to spot warning signs and know when to seek medical advice and become more confident in navigating the NHS and get the support you need.
Useful Resources
Addiction Advocates' Student Guide to Mental Health & Substance Misuse at University
Addiction Advocates provide a free and confidential service that enables those struggling with or affected by addiction to secure the support they need.
UCA Wellbeing Wednesdays
Each week, we take time to check-in with our wellbeing on Wellbeing Wednesdays! Watch previously recorded sessions on myUCA.
Five ways to wellbeing
These postcards provide five simple things that you can do in your daily life to maintain wellbeing.
How to look after your mental health
Provides ten practical ways to take care of yourself and to get the most out of life.
Hub of Hope
The Hub of Hope is a first of its kind, national mental health database which brings together organisations and charities, large and small, from across the country who offer mental health advice and support, together in one place. It is currently the biggest and most comprehensive resource of its kind, with more than 1,200 validated support networks already registered.
Mental Health Foundation: A-Z
Provides information on lots of mental health related topics, from alcohol to work-life balance.