Online services for adults

The following websites give lots of useful information and tips for looking after your mental wellbeing:

Healthy Minds
​​​​​​​The Healthy Minds Wellbeing Assistant offers tailored suggestions on services and self-help apps based on how you are feeling, so you can find what you need, when you need it – quickly and easily.

Check in with your MATE
​​​​​​​This campaign helps men to check in with each other and seek support.

Every Mind Matters
Expert advice and practical tips to help you look after your mental health and wellbeing.

NHS Mental Health and Wellbeing
Mood self-assessment quiz and mental wellbeing audio guides.

NHS Sleep and Tiredness
Advice on sleeping well and coping with tiredness.

Mental Health Foundation
Information podcasts, videos and tools to help you look after your mental health.

Age UK Mental Wellbeing
Mental wellbeing support for older people.

Reading Well for Mental Wellbeing
Books that can help with managing mental health conditions, or dealing with difficult feelings and experiences. You can borrow them from you local library as actual books, e-books or audiobooks.  Many of these are available from Bradford libraries, and you can find a link here.

Veterans Combat Stress
The UK’s leading mental health charity for veterans. They offer free, confidential 24 hour support to Service and ex-Service personnel who are experiencing mental health issues, including feeling suicidal.

PANDAS Foundation
The PANDAS Foundation supports and advises any parent who is experiencing a perinatal mental illness. They can inform and guide family members, carers, friends and employers on how they can support someone.

Urgent help

If you or someone you know needs help urgently:

• Call Guide-Line 08001 884 884 (8am to 12am) or chat online www.mindinbradford.org.uk/chat (8am to 12am) if you are feeling extremely anxious and/or having panic attacks
• Anyone thinking of suicide, self-harming, or who is seeing and hearing things can contact First Response 0800 952 1181, available 24 hours a day, seven days a week to people of all ages living in Bradford District and Craven. When a First Response telephone assessment indicates the need for a face-to-face assessment, they will aim to see you within 4 hours. Or you can call NHS 111 and select the mental health option
• Safe Spaces is crisis support service in the community for anyone aged seven and over, open 365 days a year from 12pm to 2.30am. Call First Response on 0800 952 1181 and ask for ‘Safe Spaces’.
• Call 999 in a life-threatening emergency
• You can call the Samaritans any time, day or night on 116 123 or email a Samaritan usingjo@samaritans.org.uk