Mental Health & Wellbeing
Understanding your own mental health and taking care of yourself is so important, especially if you're looking after someone else.
Maybe you suffer from a mental health condition that can be made worse by your caring role, or you look after someone who also has a mental health condition. Whatever it may be, we can support you.
Mental Health Resources
In crisis or need urgent support for you or someone else? Click here for advice from the NHS.
Remember to call 999 if there is an immediate threat to life.
Hannah
Advice on coping with
mental health and caring at University
from Young Adult Carer, Hannah
I find my mental health can deteriorate when I let work get on top of me so I find it is better for me to get the work done as and when I get it instead of leaving it to the last minute.
If I let it stress me out and get me down I find myself thinking that I’m not good enough for uni and I’m letting my family/myself down, which I know isn’t the case but it's easy to let it take over your head!
Connecting with the Young Adult Carer team has made such a difference and I do feel like speaking to someone, either at school, university or the doctors really makes all the difference. Let them know you're a carer and that your struggling and they can get you the help you need.