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This guide aims to help you: find out if you could have symptoms of depression, understand more about depression, find ways to manage or overcome depression. This guide is based on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT). CBT helps you to examine how you think about your life, and challenge negative automatic thoughts to free yourself from unhelpful thought and behaviour pattern

Take 5 steps to well being during times of isolation

We have previously understood the need to relax and recharge on going home (Joy at Home exercise) and the heightened importance of this in current days.There is also a need to mentally and emotionally prepare for work and this 5 minute exercise is hoped to allow you to focus your attention into the shift/day ahead, reminding yourself of your knowledge and skills and the support you both bring and receive in the teams in which you work.

All of the helplines listed on this website are still operational unless otherwise stated and are continuing to provide information, advice and guidance on a wide-range of health and wellbeing needs. Please use the search box below to find a helpline and to speak to someone today.

A number of new helplines have been established in response to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) global pandemic and are providing topic specific information and advice in relation to COVID-19

This resource has been produced by AWARE with the support of the Public Health Agency and complements AWARE’s Mood Matters Programme, although it may be used as a self-help resource. It can help your time during this period of uncertainty by giving you information on how to look after your mental health.

It will also help you recognise signs and symptoms of poor mental health and make you aware of sources of help.

Helping you manage your own health and wellbeing while looking after others.

These five directories list the names, numbers and web addresses (where applicable) of organisations that offer services to help improve mental health and emotional wellbeing. Where possible, additional information has also been provided, such as email addresses and contact details within each Health and Social Care Trust area.

Digital health is revolutionising health and care services, forming a crucial step on the road to care that is more efficient and patient-centred than today. But, with hundreds of thousands of apps available, and 85% falling below quality thresholds, health and care professionals require tools to find the right digital solutions for their patients' and service users' needs. Developed by clinicians, ORCHA's AppFinder gives you unlimited access to thousands of independent app reviews across all health conditions, each of which includes a breakdown of key assessment criteria relating to Clinical Assurance, Data Privacy and User Experience. Sign up to discover the strengths and weaknesses of an app before downloading or recommending it to a patient. Feel confident in accessing quality assured digital health. Is your digital doctor qualified?

This leaflet contains information on what you can say and do to help someone who may be thinking of suicide.

It highlights the warning signs, explains the feelings a suicidal person can have and provides a step-by-step guide to having a conversation and helping someone you’re worried about.

It also lists a number of support services for people having suicidal thoughts.