Mental Health
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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.
10 ways to improve your mental health
1) Talk about your feelings
2) Eat well and drink sensibly
3) Keep in touch with family and friends
4)Take time to relax and unwind
5) Accept who you are
6) Keep active and take regular exercise
7) Ask for help when you need it
8) Do something you are good at and enjoy it
9) Care for others
10) Deal with practical problems as and when they arise
Helpful Information
Follow the links below for more information.
- Suicidal
- Insomnia
- Anxiety and Depression
- Bereavement
- 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
Cannabis and psychosis
Did you know?
Frequent cannabis use during adolescence and young adulthood raises the risk of psychotic symptoms later in life research suggests. (Maastricht University)
The risk was much higher in young people who were already genetically vulnerable to developing psychosis.
It is thought that cannabis disrupts the balance of the key mood chemical dopamine in the brain.
Have you felt something odd might be going on which you can’t explain?
Have you been feeling that people are talking about you, watching you or giving you a hard time for no reason?
Have you been feeling, seeing or hearing things that others cannot?
Have you felt especially important in some way, or that you have powers that let you do things that others cannot?
Please contact your doctor to help you talk through these feelings.
http://www.cameo.nhs.uk/ A website for people who have early symptoms of psychosis