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Hat Full of Bees
Moray-based neurodiversity coaching and education from Vicky Flood, offering one-to-one ADHD coaching alongside workshops and talks. Sessions can be delivered online, with face-to-face coaching available where geographically suitable, and the site also includes lived-experience writing about ADHD and neurodivergence.
Norwich City Football Club
SAMH
SAMH
Local and Scottish organisations that may be useful when you want support closer to home.
Moray Wellbeing Hub
A peer-led social enterprise supporting mental health and wellbeing in Moray through lived-experience activity, community connection, training and signposting. Contact the Hub for information about current opportunities and support.
Centred
Mental health and wellbeing support across the Highlands, including community-based services and opportunities that help people build confidence, connection and recovery. This is the current Highland resource used in place of the outdated listing on the former directory.
James Support Group
James Support Group offers peer support for people bereaved by suicide and people experiencing, or who have experienced, suicidal thoughts across the Scottish Highlands and Moray. Support includes local group meetings, one-to-one sessions and a 24-hour helpline.
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See Me Scotland
A recorded See Me Scotland anti-stigma session on building mental health inclusion into workplace strategy and practice. Aimed at people with responsibility for wellbeing or inclusion, it explores how stigma affects employees and practical actions organisations can take to address it.
SAMH
A short SAMH guide for young people explaining mental health, when to seek help and how to talk about difficult feelings. It encourages reaching out to a trusted person or professional and includes simple ideas for looking after mental wellbeing.
NHS inform
NHS inform guidance on psychosis, including hallucinations, delusions and disordered thinking or speaking. It explains possible causes, diagnosis and treatment, with advice on getting help for yourself or someone else and what to do when urgent treatment is needed.
Scottish Recovery Network
The first Scottish Recovery Network Insight Report in The Future is Peer series. It draws on evidence, lived experience and Scottish data to examine the role of peer support in mental health recovery, current activity and what is needed to strengthen peer support across Scotland.
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James Support Group
James Support Group offers peer support for people bereaved by suicide and people experiencing, or who have experienced, suicidal thoughts across the Scottish Highlands and Moray. Support includes local group meetings, one-to-one sessions and a 24-hour helpline.
Helpline available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Campaign Against Living Miserably (CALM)
Free, confidential support for adults who are struggling, feeling suicidal or worried about someone else. CALM offers phone and online support every evening and also provides information for people affected by suicide.
Every day, 5pm to midnight.
Childline / NSPCC
Free and confidential support for children and young people about anything that is worrying them, including mental health, abuse, relationships, bullying and suicidal thoughts. Support is available by phone and online.
Mikeysline
Confidential mental health support for people across the Highlands, Moray and surrounding areas, with text-based and online support as well as face-to-face options. The service supports people experiencing distress, anxiety, depression or suicidal thoughts.
Textline, webchat, Messenger and WhatsApp: Sunday to Thursday, 6pm to 10pm; Friday and Saturday, 7pm to 7am.
NHS 24
Urgent mental health support for people of all ages in Scotland. Calling NHS 24 on 111 can connect you to the Mental Health Hub for confidential advice and support.
Available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Rape Crisis Scotland
Confidential support for anyone aged 13 or over in Scotland affected by sexual violence, including rape, sexual assault and childhood sexual abuse. Support is available by phone, text, email and webchat.
Every day, 5pm to midnight.
Samaritans
Confidential emotional support for anyone who is struggling to cope or experiencing suicidal thoughts. Samaritans can be contacted free by phone, and local branches may also offer in-person support.
Phone helpline: 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Scotland’s Domestic Abuse and Forced Marriage Helpline
Confidential support for anyone in Scotland experiencing domestic abuse or forced marriage, and for friends, relatives, colleagues or professionals concerned about someone else. This current national helpline replaces the outdated helpline listing previously shown under Scottish Women’s Aid.
Available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
Hat Full of Bees
Moray-based neurodiversity coaching and education from Vicky Flood, offering one-to-one ADHD coaching alongside workshops and talks. Sessions can be delivered online, with face-to-face coaching available where geographically suitable, and the site also includes lived-experience writing about ADHD and neurodivergence.
Monday to Friday, 9am–5pm; closed Saturday and Sunday.
Norwich City Football Club
Norwich City Football Club's follow-up mental health campaign, created with support from Samaritans, turns the traditional minute's silence into a “minute unsilenced” and encourages supporters to start conversations with the people around them. A simple reminder that talking and listening can help break the silence around suicide. Contains references to suicide.
SAMH
A practical guide for people bereaved by suicide in Scotland, covering both the emotional impact and practical matters such as the police, Procurator Fiscal, registering a death and arranging a funeral. It also signposts sources of further help. Contains discussion of suicide and bereavement.
NHS inform
A Scottish signposting page for people worried about their own or someone else’s drinking. It brings together helplines, peer-support organisations and services, including support for people affected by another person’s alcohol use.
Alcoholics Anonymous Great Britain
Peer support for people who want to stop drinking, with a national helpline, online help and local Alcoholics Anonymous meetings across Scotland.
SAMH
A short SAMH guide for young people explaining mental health, when to seek help and how to talk about difficult feelings. It encourages reaching out to a trusted person or professional and includes simple ideas for looking after mental wellbeing.
See Me Scotland
A recorded See Me Scotland anti-stigma session on building mental health inclusion into workplace strategy and practice. Aimed at people with responsibility for wellbeing or inclusion, it explores how stigma affects employees and practical actions organisations can take to address it.
See Me Scotland
A recorded See Me Scotland session exploring what good anti-stigma practice looks like in mental health services. It is useful for professionals and organisations wanting to reflect on how services, language and culture can reduce stigma and discrimination rather than unintentionally reinforce them.
See Me Scotland
A recorded See Me Scotland anti-stigma session exploring public mental health stigma in Scotland. It brings together current learning and perspectives on how attitudes and discrimination affect people, and is useful for anyone interested in understanding or challenging stigma in communities.
NHS inform
A structured self-help guide for people with mild-to-moderate anxiety symptoms, using cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT). It explains how anxiety can affect thoughts, feelings, behaviour and physical sensations, with activities and techniques to help understand and manage anxiety at your own pace.
Anxiety UK
A national charity providing information, self-help resources, support services and access to therapy for people affected by anxiety, stress, panic and anxiety-based conditions.
The self-care information and resource line is available 24/7; advisor and therapy services have separate booking and availability.
Young Scot
Young Scot’s mental health and emotional wellbeing hub, with youth-friendly information, practical techniques, podcasts and links to support organisations across Scotland.
Beat
Information and support for anyone in Scotland affected by an eating disorder, including family and friends. Beat offers a Scotland helpline, email and online support.
Phone support: Monday to Friday, 3pm to 8pm. Online support options are available through the website.
NHS inform
A self-help guide for coping with bereavement and grief, drawing on CBT and other therapeutic approaches. It explains common experiences of grief and offers practical exercises and ideas for coping with its emotional and day-to-day effects.
Breathing Space
A free and confidential service for people aged 16 and over in Scotland who are feeling low, anxious or depressed and need someone to talk to. Phone and webchat support are available during published hours.
Phone: Monday to Thursday, 6pm to 2am; Friday 6pm to Monday 6am. Webchat hours are published on the website.
Brighton & Hove Albion Football Club
A suicide-prevention film from Brighton & Hove Albion, created as part of the Premier League's Together Against Suicide campaign with Samaritans. It encourages people to notice when someone may be struggling, start a conversation and listen rather than assume everything is fine. Contains themes of suicide and emotional distress.
Centred
Mental health and wellbeing support across the Highlands, including community-based services and opportunities that help people build confidence, connection and recovery. This is the current Highland resource used in place of the outdated listing on the former directory.
Change Mental Health
Advice, information and support for people affected by mental illness in Scotland, including families, friends and carers. Change Mental Health is the current name of the charity formerly known as Support in Mind Scotland.
Monday to Friday, 10am to 4pm, closed 12:30pm to 1:30pm.
Norwich City Football Club
A powerful short film from Norwich City Football Club showing that people who are struggling may not display obvious signs. Created to encourage people to check in with those around them and to challenge assumptions about what suicidal distress can look like. Contains themes of suicide and bereavement.
Child Bereavement UK
Support for children and young people who are grieving, and for families when a baby or child dies. Child Bereavement UK also provides guidance for parents, carers and professionals supporting bereaved children.
Support specialists: Monday to Friday, 8am to 8pm, excluding bank holidays.
Children First
Free support for parents, carers and families in Scotland who are worried about a child or need someone to talk to about family life. The service can help with concerns including children’s wellbeing, mental health, relationships and practical pressures; it is the current successor to ParentLine Scotland.
Monday to Friday, 9am to 9pm; weekends, 9am to noon.
Mental Health Foundation
One of the Mental Health Foundation’s evidence-based What’s Up With Everyone? animations, co-produced with young people. This Aardman film looks at competitiveness and the pressure to compare, perform or win, helping viewers reflect on when competition begins to affect wellbeing.
Cruse Scotland
Free bereavement support for people in Scotland who are grieving after a death. Cruse Scotland offers a helpline, online chat and further bereavement support.
Bereavement helpline: Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm, with later opening to 8pm on Monday and Thursday. GriefChat hours are published separately on the website.
NHS inform
A structured CBT-based self-help guide for people experiencing symptoms of depression. It helps readers recognise and understand depression, explore links between thoughts, feelings and behaviour, and work through practical techniques for managing low mood at their own pace.
YoungMinds
A YoungMinds Parents Lounge discussion bringing together guidance for parents supporting a young person with depression. It offers a practical, conversational perspective on recognising difficulties and responding supportively. The video is older, so current YoungMinds contact and service information should be checked separately.
Samaritans
An accessible Samaritans guide for anyone struggling to cope, including people experiencing low wellbeing, isolation, self-harm or suicidal thoughts. It offers practical self-help, routes to further support and self-harm and suicide safety-planning tools. Contains discussion of self-harm and suicide.
NHS inform
An NHS inform tool that asks a few questions and recommends an appropriate online course for mental health and wellbeing. It links people in Scotland to NHS-supported options including SilverCloud, Daylight and Sleepio, alongside a route to search for local services.
SAMH
Practical SAMH guidance for anyone supporting someone diagnosed with schizophrenia. It covers listening, responding during psychotic experiences, setting boundaries, planning for a crisis and knowing when urgent help may be needed.
Samaritans
A Samaritans lived-experience video sharing ways people may cope when urges to self-harm feel difficult. It presents personal strategies and perspectives rather than a single solution, and can be used alongside wider support. Contains discussion of self-harm.
Samaritans
A Samaritans lived-experience video about approaching someone you are worried may be having suicidal thoughts. It explores starting the conversation, listening and giving the person space to talk rather than avoiding the subject. Contains discussion of suicide.
NHS inform
A CBT-based self-help guide for mild-to-moderate panic symptoms or panic attacks that have started recently. It explains panic, triggers and the links between thoughts, feelings and physical symptoms, with practical coping strategies and information for neurodivergent people and those around them.
NHS inform
A self-help guide using CBT and expert advice to help with sleep problems and insomnia. It explains how sleep works, what can keep insomnia going and how everyday habits can affect sleep, with practical approaches for developing healthier sleep patterns.
Samaritans
A Samaritans lived-experience video about supporting someone who is self-harming or experiencing suicidal thoughts. It focuses on listening, staying alongside the person and considering appropriate support, while recognising that supporters also need to look after themselves. Contains discussion of self-harm and suicide.
Suicide Prevention Scotland
A short practical introduction to Suicide Prevention Scotland’s three-step approach to asking someone directly about suicide, listening and acknowledging what they say, and thinking about safety. Useful for anyone worried about someone else. Contains discussion of suicide and crisis support.
Suicide Prevention Scotland
A short practical video focusing on the “keep safe” stage after someone says they are thinking about suicide. It forms part of Suicide Prevention Scotland’s guidance on asking directly, listening and acknowledging, and helping someone stay safe. Contains discussion of suicide.
SAMH
A SAMH guide for people managing their own mental health at work. It covers workplace stress, difficult relationships, choosing work that suits you, getting support, talking to an employer and returning to work after a period of poor mental health.
SAMH
A SAMH guide for people providing unpaid support or care to someone with a mental health problem, illness, disability or addiction. It focuses on looking after your own mental health and wellbeing while caring for someone else, with advice on finding further support.
SAMH
A SAMH guide for young people who are worried about a friend’s mental health. It offers practical advice on starting a conversation, listening without judgement, encouraging further help, staying in touch and recognising the limits of what a friend can provide.
SAMH
A practical SAMH guide with 12 things to try when a friend or family member is struggling with their mental health. It covers listening, starting conversations, offering encouragement, supporting recovery and recognising the limits of what one person can do.
Mind
A short Mind animation with practical guidance for supporting someone with an eating disorder. It covers listening, avoiding assumptions, helping someone feel less judged and encouraging appropriate support, while also recognising the wellbeing of the person offering support.
Samaritans
A lived-experience-informed Samaritans guide showing how moments of human connection can interrupt suicidal thoughts. It includes practical ideas for starting conversations, listening without judgement, asking directly about suicide and supporting someone in the moment. Contains discussion of suicide.
Mind
A practical Mind video with ideas for looking after yourself when you are feeling depressed. It focuses on manageable ways to care for your wellbeing when motivation and energy are low, and can be used alongside professional or other support where needed.
World Health Organization (WHO)
In collaboration with WHO to mark World Mental Health Day, writer and illustrator Matthew Johnstone tells the story of overcoming the "black dog of depression". More information on the book can be found here: http://matthewjohnstone.com.au/
Mental Health Foundation
One of the Mental Health Foundation’s evidence-based What’s Up With Everyone? animations, co-produced with young people. This Aardman film explores independence during major life transitions, including the pressure to cope alone and the importance of recognising when asking for support can help.
Mental Health Foundation
One of the Mental Health Foundation’s evidence-based What’s Up With Everyone? animations, co-produced with young people. This short Aardman film explores loneliness and isolation during life transitions and can help young people recognise the pressures that can make connection feel more difficult.
Scottish Recovery Network
A short Scottish Recovery Network animation introducing mental health recovery through the CHIME framework: connection, hope and optimism, identity, meaning and empowerment. It is designed to start conversations about recovery and what can help people move towards a life that feels meaningful to them.
LGBT Health and Wellbeing
Free, confidential emotional support and information for LGBTQ+ people across Scotland, including people who are questioning or exploring their sexual orientation or gender identity.
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, noon to 9pm; Sunday, 1pm to 6pm.
SAMH
A solutions-focused SAMH guide for employers and employees on making reasonable adjustments at work for people with mental health problems. It explains why adjustments matter, the Equality Act 2010 duty and practical ways workplace barriers can be reduced.
Scottish Recovery Network
A collection of Scottish Recovery Network materials from Making Recovery Real, an initiative placing lived experience at the centre of local decision-making and service development. It includes learning from work in Moray and Dundee, reports, films and recovery-story resources.
NHS inform
NHS inform’s main mental health information hub for Scotland, bringing together help routes and information on anxiety, depression, stress, sleep, self-harm, suicide, eating disorders, trauma and other topics. It also links to online courses, self-help resources and urgent support.
Mental Health Foundation
A Mental Health Foundation video from Mental Health Awareness Week 2022 explaining why loneliness matters for mental and physical health. Although linked to that year’s campaign, its central message about recognising loneliness and strengthening connection remains useful.
Mind
Thirteen young adults aged 18–25 talk openly about what it is like to live with a mental health problem and the things that help them cope. A useful first-person resource for understanding different experiences of mental health and the value of talking and seeking support.
NHS inform
NHS inform’s broad mental wellbeing hub, with practical information on low mood, anxiety, stress, sleep, social connection, traumatic events and other aspects of wellbeing. It also links to self-help guides, exercises, support options and the Mind to Mind resource.
Mind
Information and signposting for people experiencing mental health problems, and for those supporting someone else. Mind and its local network primarily serve England and Wales.
Monday to Friday, 9am to 6pm.
NHS inform
A curated NHS inform collection of mental health and wellbeing resources, bringing together services, websites, videos, podcasts and other useful tools. The links are grouped around different experiences and can help people explore information and support in Scotland.
Mind Your Head
A Shetland mental health charity providing information, activities and support programmes for people across the islands, including adults, young people and carers. This is the current Shetland resource used in place of the outdated listing on the former directory.
Contact the charity during office hours; individual programmes and activities have their own availability.
Moray Wellbeing Hub
A peer-led social enterprise supporting mental health and wellbeing in Moray through lived-experience activity, community connection, training and signposting. Contact the Hub for information about current opportunities and support.
The phone is primarily a voicemail service; leave a message for a callback.
UK Narcotics Anonymous
Peer support for people who have a problem with drugs and want to stop using. UK Narcotics Anonymous offers a helpline and a network of meetings, including meetings in Scotland.
Every day, 10am to midnight.
Scottish Recovery Network
A practical discussion with Bipolar Scotland about navigating discomfort within peer-support relationships. It is useful for people involved in peer support who want to think about boundaries, open conversations and how to respond when relationships feel difficult or uncertain.
NHS inform
A CBT-based self-help guide for people with mild-to-moderate obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) symptoms. It explains intrusive thoughts, compulsions and rituals, and includes practical exercises for reducing avoidance and changing patterns that can keep OCD going.
Orkney Blide Trust
A community mental health charity in Orkney offering a welcoming drop-in, activities, practical support and opportunities for people affected by mental ill health and those who support them.
Office: Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm. Drop-in: Monday to Friday, 10am to 5pm; Saturday 11am to 4pm; Sunday 11am to 2pm.
Mind
A lived-experience Mind discussion about the challenges of parenting while living with a mental health problem. Parents talk about pressure, guilt and taking things one day at a time, making it a useful resource for parents who may recognise some of those experiences.
Scottish Recovery Network
A practical Scottish Recovery Network case example on getting peer support started, featuring the Living Warriors Project, an Edinburgh-based peer-support group for survivors of attempted suicide. Useful for people developing peer support. Contains discussion of suicide attempts and recovery.
Scottish Recovery Network
The first Scottish Recovery Network Insight Report in The Future is Peer series. It draws on evidence, lived experience and Scottish data to examine the role of peer support in mental health recovery, current activity and what is needed to strengthen peer support across Scotland.
Penumbra Mental Health
A Scottish mental health charity providing recovery-focused services for people experiencing mild to serious and enduring mental ill health. Its work includes community support, crisis services, supported living, suicide prevention and self-harm support.
Mental Health Foundation
One of the Mental Health Foundation’s evidence-based What’s Up With Everyone? animations, co-produced with young people. This Aardman film explores perfectionism, harsh self-criticism and the pressure to meet unrealistic standards, particularly during transitions into study, training or work.
NHS inform
NHS inform guidance on psychosis, including hallucinations, delusions and disordered thinking or speaking. It explains possible causes, diagnosis and treatment, with advice on getting help for yourself or someone else and what to do when urgent treatment is needed.
NHS inform
NHS inform guidance on psychotic depression, where severe depression occurs alongside symptoms of psychosis such as hallucinations or delusions. It covers symptoms, treatment and how to get help for someone affected. Contains discussion of suicide.
NHS inform
A Trauma-Focused Cognitive Therapy self-help guide for people who may be experiencing PTSD or complex PTSD symptoms. It explains PTSD and CPTSD, explores ways to manage symptoms and supports people to think about recovery while seeking professional assessment where needed.
SAMH
Information and support about mental health for people in Scotland, whether you are looking for help for yourself, someone you care about or simply want reliable information. The Information Service is not a crisis helpline.
Information Service email: Monday to Friday, 10am to 4pm, except Scottish bank holidays. General office phone: Monday to Friday, 10am to 4:30pm, closed 12:30pm to 1:30pm.
NHS inform
NHS inform guidance on schizophrenia, covering possible symptoms, diagnosis, treatment and support. It also explains how care may be provided through community mental health teams, what can happen during more severe episodes and where to seek urgent mental health support.
Scottish Families Affected by Alcohol and Drugs
Information, advice and support for people in Scotland who are affected by someone else’s alcohol or drug use. The service can help families understand substance use, think about safety and find appropriate support.
Monday to Friday, 9am to 11pm.
See Me
A free six-part e-learning programme for managers and staff about mental health stigma and discrimination at work. It covers recruitment, recognising concerns, disclosure, supporting colleagues and returning to work, using short films, practical information and quizzes.
See Me Scotland
A See Me in Work webinar on helping healthcare workplaces embed mental health inclusion. It is particularly relevant to employers, managers and health professionals looking at organisational culture, stigma and the practical conditions that help staff feel safer talking about mental health.
Mind
Simon shares his experience of mental health stigma and the process of becoming more accepting of himself. The video offers a lived-experience perspective on how stigma can affect confidence and openness, and why self-acceptance and supportive conversations can matter.
SAMH
SAMH guidance on self-care for people living with schizophrenia, including coping during psychotic experiences, recognising possible warning signs, maintaining routines and looking after physical wellbeing. It also explains when urgent support may be needed.
NHS inform
A CBT-based self-help guide exploring low self-esteem and its effects on thoughts, feelings and behaviour. It includes practical activities for challenging negative thoughts, recognising personal qualities and developing habits that can support a more balanced view of yourself.
NHS inform
NHS inform guidance explaining self-harm, why people may self-harm and where to get help for yourself or someone else. It includes support information for family and friends. Contains discussion of self-harm and suicide.
SAMH
A short SAMH guide for parents and carers who are concerned about a young person who self-harms. It explains self-harm, explores why someone may use it to cope and offers practical guidance on responding and finding support. Contains discussion of self-harm and suicide.
See Me Scotland
A See Me in Work webinar focused on men’s mental health stigma in Scottish workplaces, particularly male-dominated industries. It explores barriers to openness, the role of workplace culture, and how employers can support peer networks and more open conversations about mental health.
NHS inform
A CBT-based self-help guide for people with mild-to-moderate social anxiety. It explains how thoughts, avoidance and safety behaviours can keep social anxiety going, and includes practical activities for challenging unhelpful thoughts and gradually facing difficult social situations.
Mental Health Foundation
One of the Mental Health Foundation’s evidence-based What’s Up With Everyone? animations, co-produced with young people. This Aardman film explores social media, comparison, pressure for approval and the gap between online presentation and everyday life, encouraging reflection on healthier digital habits.
Scottish Recovery Network
A short animation sharing insights from people across Scotland on what helped them stay well and connected during and after Covid-19 lockdown. Useful as a prompt for conversations about connection, isolation and wellbeing in communities, services or organisations.
Stonewall
Stonewall’s directory of specialist organisations and frontline services that can support LGBTQ+ people with a range of concerns. This replaces the old Stonewall Scotland information-line details, which are no longer advertised as a current support route.
SAMH
A short practical SAMH guide for anyone concerned that somebody they know may be thinking about suicide. It explains how to ask directly, listen without judgement and help the person find further support. Contains discussion of suicide.
SAMH
A detailed SAMH guide for people supporting someone who is living with thoughts of suicide. It covers understanding suicide, recognising concerns, responding in a crisis, working with services and looking after yourself while providing support. Contains discussion of suicide.
SAMH
A SAMH guide for people living with thoughts of suicide, exploring what suicidal thoughts can feel like, ways to talk about them and how to seek support. It also includes practical ideas for planning ahead and staying safe during difficult periods. Contains discussion of suicide.
NHS inform
A Scottish signposting page for people worried about their own or someone else’s drug use. It covers local drug services, naloxone, online support, family support and peer recovery organisations, with links to further help across Scotland.
SAMH
A SAMH guide for parents and carers on supporting a child’s mental health and wellbeing. It covers everyday pressures, signs that a young person may be struggling, starting conversations, responding to concerns and looking after your own wellbeing while supporting them.
SurvivorsUK
Specialist support for men, boys and non-binary people who have experienced sexual violence or abuse. SurvivorsUK offers telephone, text, WhatsApp and online helpline support.
Telephone: Monday to Friday, 10am to noon. Text, WhatsApp and webchat: daily, noon to 8pm. Services close on bank holidays.
Anna Freud
An Anna Freud animation designed to help primary-aged children begin conversations about mental health. It introduces the difference between everyday feelings and feelings that become harder to manage, uses accessible language, and explores how to listen and talk to a trusted adult.
SAMH
A short SAMH guide for young people dealing with exam stress. It offers practical suggestions for revision, sleep, food, breaks, physical activity and recognising when stress is becoming overwhelming, with simple techniques for slowing down and regaining focus.
See Me Scotland
A See Me Scotland video introducing the Scottish Mental Illness Stigma Survey and the impact stigma and discrimination can have on people living with severe, complex or enduring mental illness. Useful for understanding the Scottish evidence behind current anti-stigma work.
The Spark
Counselling and relationship support for individuals, couples, families and young people. The Spark provides online counselling across the UK alongside location-based services in Scotland; the former telephone helpline listed on the old directory is no longer the current service.
Counselling enquiries: Monday to Thursday, 9am to 9pm. Online counselling is available across the UK; in-person services are location dependent.
See Me
A collection of free See Me workplace tools and packs for organisations tackling mental health stigma and discrimination. Resources include conversation guidance, self-assessment tools, a cost calculator and practical Spotlight On guides.
SAMH
A detailed SAMH guide explaining anxiety, its symptoms, causes and common anxiety disorders, including panic attacks. It covers ways to manage anxiety, available treatments and medication, and includes guidance for friends and family.
SAMH
A SAMH guide explaining depression, its symptoms, possible causes and available treatments. It also explores practical ways to support your own recovery and offers guidance for friends and family supporting someone with depression.
SAMH
A SAMH guide explaining psychosis, including hallucinations, delusions and disorganised thinking or speech. It covers possible causes, different experiences of psychosis, treatment and support, self-help approaches and guidance for friends and family.
SAMH
A SAMH guide explaining self-harm, why someone may use it to cope with difficult feelings or experiences, and ways to seek support and develop alternatives. It also includes guidance for friends and family. Contains discussion of self-harm and suicide.
SAMH
A short SAMH guide helping young people understand mental health and wellbeing. It explains when difficult feelings may be becoming a problem, encourages talking to trusted people and introduces practical ways to look after mental health and find support.
Anna Freud
An Anna Freud animation and teaching resource for young people aged roughly 11–14. Through two young people’s experiences, it introduces mental health self-care, accessible language for talking about difficulties, listening to others and knowing when and where to ask for support.
Mind
A short Mind animation explaining what mental health problems are, how they can affect people, and why experiences vary from person to person. A useful general introduction for conversations about mental health, including causes, support and the idea that mental health can change over time.
Samaritans
A Samaritans lived-experience video exploring what suicidal thoughts can feel like and why people may experience them. It offers different personal perspectives rather than assuming one cause or experience. Contains discussion of suicidal thoughts and suicide.
Samaritans
Samaritans guidance explaining suicidal thoughts, how they can feel and how to support someone experiencing them. It covers possible signs, taking disclosures seriously, asking directly about suicide, listening without judgement and thinking about next steps. Contains discussion of suicide.
Scottish Recovery Network
A lived-experience video exploring how trauma can feel different from one person to another. It can help viewers understand that people may respond to traumatic experiences in varied ways and that recovery is personal rather than following one fixed pattern.
Samaritans
Practical Samaritans guidance on supporting someone experiencing suicidal thoughts. It focuses on being present without judgement, listening with open questions, offering practical help, respecting your own limits and helping the person think about a safety plan. Contains discussion of suicide.
Scottish Recovery Network
A short explainer introducing Recovery Conversation Cafés, a facilitated approach for bringing people with different perspectives together to share experiences and develop ways forward. Scottish Recovery Network also provides a free toolkit for organisations and communities wanting to use the approach.
Mind
A short Mind animation explaining what depression is, how it can affect thoughts, feelings and day-to-day life, and where people can look for help. A clear introductory resource for anyone wanting to understand depression and the difference between low mood and a more persistent problem.
Mind
A Mind discussion in which people with lived experience talk about why they self-harm, ways they have learned to cope, and what support from friends or family can feel helpful. Contains discussion of self-harm and difficult emotions.
Scottish Recovery Network
A short animation based on conversations with people involved in peer support across Scotland. It highlights qualities such as hope, equal relationships, shared experience, shared power and creating safe spaces, offering a clear introduction to what distinguishes peer support.
Samaritans
Samaritans guidance for anyone worried that someone they know may be suicidal. It explains how to approach the person, listen, encourage further help and respond if there is immediate danger, while also looking after your own wellbeing. Contains discussion of suicide.
Samaritans
A Samaritans lived-experience video explaining what a safety plan is and how it can help someone prepare for periods when thoughts of self-harm or suicide become difficult. It includes practical examples of things a person might include and emphasises that a plan can change over time.
Scottish Recovery Network
A recorded Scottish Recovery Network webinar exploring the role peer support can play in mental health crisis services. It brings together examples and learning about how lived experience, mutuality and hope can shape support, making it particularly useful for people developing or improving services.
Scottish Recovery Network and VOX Scotland
A collection of lived-experience resources developed through the With Us, For Us project with people living with trauma and/or a personality disorder diagnosis. It includes reports, a practice workbook, case study, creative booklet, animation and film exploring experiences of services and ideas for improvement.
See Me
See Me’s workplace resource hub, bringing together tools, guidance, e-learning, campaigns and practical materials to help organisations tackle mental health stigma and discrimination and create more open, supportive workplaces.
Mind
A short Mind video for anyone worried about someone who may be depressed. It offers practical ideas for staying in contact, listening and supporting the person without trying to fix everything, while encouraging appropriate help when it is needed.
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