Self-harm
Self-harm is when you hurt yourself as a way of dealing with very difficult feelings, painful memories or overwhelming situations and experiences.
After self-harming you may feel a short-term sense of release, but the cause of your distress is unlikely to have gone away. Self-harm can also bring up very difficult emotions and could make you feel worse.
Mind
Mind explains self-harm, including possible causes and how you can access treatment and support. It includes tips for helping yourself, and guidance for friends and family.
NHS Choices
Get help for self harm from the NHS.
Harmless
Harmless is a voluntary organisation for people who self harm, their friends, families, You can find help, advice and support.
selfharm UK
selfharm UK is a project dedicated to supporting young people impacted by self-harm, providing a safe space to talk, ask any questions and be honest about what's going on in your life.
Depression
Depression is a low mood that lasts for a long time, and affects your everyday life.
In its mildest form, depression can mean just being in low spirits. It doesn't stop you leading your normal life but makes everything harder to do and seem less worthwhile.
At its most severe, depression can be life-threatening because it can make you feel suicidal or simply give up the will to live.
Mind
Mind explains depression, including possible causes and how you can access treatment and support. It includes tips for helping yourself, and guidance for friends and family.
OCD
Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) is an anxiety disorder. It has 2 main parts obsessions and compulsions.
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder sufferers may have obsessions about something, followed by repetitive compulsions or urges to do something.
Mind
Mind explains what obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) is, including possible causes and how you can access treatment and support. It has tips for helping yourself, and guidance for friends and family.
Anxiety
Anxiety is the feeling of fear or panic. Most people feel anxious, panicky or fearful about situations in life, such as money problems, relationship problems or work issues.
Symptoms of anxiety include feeling frightened, nervous or panicky all the time. You may also feel down or depressed and have difficulties sleeping and eating, be unable to concentrate on things and feel tired and irritable.
Mind
Mind explains anxiety and panic attacks, including possible causes and how you can access treatment and support. It includes tips for helping yourself, and guidance for friends and family.
Anxiety UK
Anxiety UK is a national registered charity formed in 1970, by someone living with agoraphobia, for those affected by anxiety, stress and anxiety based depression.
Eating disorders
Controlling your eating and body shape might be a way of coping with painful and difficult feelings such as anger, sadness, guilt, loss or fear.
A person with an eating disorder may focus excessively on their weight and shape, leading them to make unhealthy choices about food with damaging results to their health.
Eating disorders can include anorexia, bulimia or binge eating.
First Steps
First Steps is a Derbyshire wide eating disorders charity. They support people all over Derbyshire and the surrounding areas who are affected by eating difficulties and disorders. This includes parents, partners and families.
Many of the staff and volunteers have had personal experience of an eating disorder themselves.
Mind
Mind explains eating problems, including possible causes and how you can access treatment and support. It includes tips for helping yourself, and guidance for friends and family.
Be Real
Be Real is campaigning to change attitudes to body image and help all of us put health above appearance and be confident in our bodies.
Beat
Beat is the UK's eating disorder charity. Their vision is an end to the pain and suffering caused by eating disorders.
NHS
The NHS has information about eating disorders.
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
PTSD can follow on from physical or sexual abuse, witnessing something extremely frightening or traumatising, being the victim of violence or severe bullying or surviving a disaster.
You keep remembering the traumatic event and get flashbacks or nightmares and keep reliving the event.
You are scared to relive the event or think about it and so you keep yourself really busy to keep your mind occupied. You may keep busy and avoid anything that reminds you of the event.
You may feel anxious all the time and unable to relax, for fear that the traumatic event will happen again.
Mind
Mind explains what post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and complex PTSD are, and provides information on how you can access treatment and support. It includes self-care tips and guidance for friends and family.