Finding your way
Mental health issues can be difficult as it is not easy for others to see how you feel.
Your GP can help discuss ways to try and help and sometimes a referral to a psychiatrist is necessary but often you may find self help is possible.
Please use our resources below to find ways to help yourself, it is possible to self refer to many mental health services without having to be referred by your GP.
Cruse Bereavement Centre
Cruse is here to support you after the death of someone close. Find out how get help for yourself or for a child by reading our articles, or contacting us for telephone, email, or face-to-face services.
www.cruse.org.uk
Bereavement centre
Our aim is to help you to try and make sense of the world you find yourself in, a strange world, that you don’t know anymore. We recognise that some people need extra support when they experience bereavement. The Bereavement Centre was created to support you in your journey of grief, so that you don’t feel so alone.
www.bereavementcharity.org.uk
The Bereavement Councelling Charity
Our trained counsellors can enable people to come to terms with the emotional and practical changes bereavement brings, helping to normalise these intense feelings and to promote well-being.
www.bereavementcharity.org.uk
Macmillan Cancer Support
If you or someone you know has been diagnosed with cancer, you’re not alone. Find out what to expect, get information, practical advice and support, hear from experts and read about other people’s experiences.
www.macmillan.org.uk
Confidential help and advice
It’s safe and easy for you to speak to a qualified health professional. Just send a message, you don’t have to give your name. Discreet and quick. It only takes one message to start making a difference. You’ll get confidential advice from trained health staff in your area.
Do you, or someone you care for, self harm? This service looks to provide support for those affected.
Adults and over 18’s With Mental Health concern
Are you or someone you know experiencing a crisis and need urgent mental health support? Call 111 or visit www.111.nhs.uk and speak to the NHS Mental Health Triage Service.
Our NHS 111 mental health triage service provides advice, support and guidance, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, for anyone living in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.
The Mental Health Triage Team has a wide range of skills, including on the phone brief psychological support and has access to key services and organisations that can offer mental health support to people in their time of need.
This service can also be also used by GPs and other healthcare professionals, the emergency services, mental health charities and any other organisations that come into contact with people experiencing a mental health crisis.
The Mental Health Triage Service can be accessed by phone by dialling 111 and online at www.111.nhs.uk.
If you are experiencing a life threatening emergency, please call 999.
Acute mental health services
Southern Health provide Acute mental health services
Parkway Centre
Park Way
51 Leigh Road
Havant PO9 2BF
Phone 023 9268 3500
Crisis Number: 02392 344562
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