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Emotional Wellbeing

Emotional Wellbeing

Supporting someone else can affect your mental health and make it harder to stay well. Although you may truly want to care for them, you may also find it difficult and upsetting, with lots of feelings such as guilt, anxiety, worry and loneliness. 

Here are some top tips and tools for improving and maintaining your wellbeing:

Recommended Resources

Sometimes the pressure of caring for someone else can build up until it feels like you can no longer cope. This is completely understandable but may be a sign that you need to try and look after yourself.

We have collaborated with some local professionals to provide you with a range of techniques and documentation that you can try out and which will help you to create a Well Being Tool Kit that is individual to you and your situation.

Positive Mindset Tool Kit

Tips for Carers

Tips to control stress

External Links

The internet can be a very daunting place when you are looking for some support ‘in the moment’, so we have compiled a number of fabulous links to useful websites that Carers have used to help them when needing some guidance with their mental health: 

MIND – Supporting yourself when caring for someone

Carers UK – coping with Stress & Depression

NHS – Every Mind Matters

IAPT – Talking Therapies

Happiful - Ways to tackle stress

Head First – Self Help Course

Samaritans Self Help

Check Your Mood – Self Assessment

Need Help Now!

URGENT Mental Health Hotline

North Yorkshire mental health crisis support

The Samaritans

Scarborough Survivors