Mental Health
camStudent health
This section is for mental health. Our best advice is not to wait for a problem to become too large before seeking help.
All the Student Practices are very experienced in mental health problems affecting students.
Helpful Information
Follow the links below for more information.
- Suicidal
- Insomnia
- Anxiety and Depression
- Out of hours
- Free Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
- Cambridge University Counselling service
- Anglia Ruskin University Counselling Service
- MIND
- Self harm
- Drugs
- Eating disorders
- Cannabis and psychosis
- Alcohol
- Exercise
- Other counselling and self help
- Seasonal affective disorder
- St John's Wort
- Other Links
Eating disorders
hHere are some specific websites related to eating disorders.
www.b-eat.co.uk
www.something-fishy.com
Cambridge has two main centres, which treat Eating Disorders.
The Phoenix centre is for young people under 18.
The Adult Eating Disorder Unit is based at Addenbrooke’s hospital.
Both centres give help to young people on an outpatient as well as an inpatient basis in some circumstances.
If you feel you may need further help in this area please speak to your GP or another health professional.
Self help information
We recommend some useful books below