Overview
If you need someone to talk to about how you’re feeling and get advice about local services that can help to support you call locally on 01823 276892 or freephone 0800 138 1692. Our team at Mindline Somerset are here to support you 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Shout
If you struggle to pick up and ring to ask for help, you can contact Shout via text on the number below. Shout is a 24/7 text service, free on all major mobile networks, for anyone in crisis anytime, anywhere. It’s a place to go if you’re struggling to cope and you need immediate help.
Shout will work with you to find ways to help you access the support you have in place as well as other forms of support available to you. They will also contact emergency services or social services if needed.
- Text: 85258
- Shout website
If you are worried about your mental health and wellbeing, and are finding it difficult to cope, you’re not alone – there is lots of help and support available in Somerset. Open Mental Health is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to ensure that anyone struggling with poor mental health can access the right support at the right time: Contact Open Mental Health online, call 01823 276892 or call freephone: 0800 138 1692.
Support Services
Local Specialist Support Services
- Somerset Carers – phone: 08003168600, website: somersetcarers.org
- Somerset Drug and Alcohol Service (SDAS) phone: 03003038788 – Open 24/7, website: turning-point.co.uk/sdas
- Somerset Suicide Bereavement Support Service – Mindinsomerset bereavement suicide support service website – phone: 03003305463 – Open 24/7 Somerset
- Domestic Abuse Service – phone: 08006949999, Somerset and Avon Rape and Sexual Abuse Support
- Step Up Somerset – Employment advice, redundancy support and skills development Step Up Somerset – Helping you find where you need to be
- Age UK Friendly Phone Call Service – phone: 01823 345 610
- Citizens Advice Somerset – can provide free, confidential information and advice to assist people with money, legal, consumer and other problems. Visit Citizen’s Advice Somerset or call the advice line: 0344488962
- Support for families, children and young people’s mental health:
Visit our children and young people’s website to find resources and support available for schools, parents and young people in Somerset. Somerset children and young people: Health and Wellbeing: New Home (cypsomersethealth.org)
Additional Professional Support
- Children and Adolescent Mental Health Services – Somerset CAMHS – Somerset NHS Foundation Trust
- Young Somerset – Young Somerset
- Somerset Council Social Care – Safeguarding contact
- Somerset Foundation NHS Trust Mental Health Services – Mental health – Somerset NHS Foundation Trust
- Open Mental Health Alliance (Community Mental Health Services) – Somerset’s Mental Health Alliance – Open Mental Health
Support services in the community
- CCS Village and Community Agents provide confidential, practical community-based solutions for you, wherever you are in Somerset. Somerset Village and Community Agents (somersetagents.org)
- Unbreakable Men aims to raise awareness around Men’s Mental Health in Somerset and actively encourage Men to take ownership over their mental wellness, whilst positively impacting their mental and physical wellbeing through physical activity.
Directory of National Support Services
A – Z directory of Mental Health support and services available on Mind – A-Z mental health – Mind
Self- help resources
Every Mind Matters is a national self-help service with expert advice and practical tips to help you look after your mental health and wellbeing and discover what works for you. Wellbeing isn’t something you have, but something you do. Every Mind Matters is one resource that is trying to help everyone to feel more confident in taking action to take care of their mental health and wellbeing.
Complete ‘Your Mind Plan’: Answer 5 quick questions to get your free plan with tips to help you deal with stress and anxiety, improve your sleep, boost your mood and feel more in control.
Mental Health and Wellbeing guides to download
Local
- Lifehacks – A quick reference guide developed by young people in Somerset including information on how to help manage your own mental health and how to help friends when they’re struggling too. Somerset children & young people : Health & Wellbeing : New Lifehacks.
- Little Book of Mental Health (PDF) – A practical guide for Everyday Emotional Wellbeing including a list of national and local organisations.