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If you're worried about your mental health, or if someone in your life is affected, there is plenty of useful information and practical support available to help you cope.

If you're in good mental health you can make the most of your potential, cope with everyday life and play a full part in your family, workplace, community and with friends.

Mental health difficulties affect one in four of us at some point in our lives, they are very common and there are now lots of ways to overcome them, including some very practical steps each of us who experiences them can take on our own and people and services to access for guidance and support. It sometimes helps to think of mental health and mental illness separately.

Good mental health means that we feel happy about ourselves, we have a sense of purpose and goals in life, we have a sense of belonging to a community, we have good self esteem and feel valued and feel in control of our lives. Mental illness is much more clinical, defined by symptoms and diagnosed by doctors. Although treatments for mental illness are often medication based and rely on professionals to diagnose and prescribe the right treatments, it is important to recognise that each and everyone of us can take steps ourselves to improve our mental health irrespective of whether or not we have a mental illness. In taking such steps it is often the case that the symptoms of illness become less distressing and more easily managed. Research has shown that remaining hopeful and positive about the future and developing the inner strength to be in control help to combat the symptoms of mental distress which can at times feel overwhelming.

WellBeing Centre

Stockport's Wellbeing Centre aims to promote good health, happiness and positive mental wellbeing, empowering local people to take control of their own lives. It is open to the entire community and encourages everyone to improve their own happiness and quality of life. Workers and volunteers at the centre strive to provide a wide range of services, activities and resources so that everyone can find something that's of value and interest to them.

Find out more about the WellBeing Centre

 

SPARC (Stockport Progress and Recovery Centre)

Formerly Stockport Day Centre, SPARC aims to provide a safe and supportive environment for adults in the local area who are experiencing or recovering from mental health problems. SPARC offers a range of leisure, therapeutic and social activities and facilities, developed in consultation with members.

Visit the SPARC website

MIND

Stockport Mind is an independent adult mental health charity that offers friendly, accessible support and information to promote wellbeing in the community. Working with local agencies, they have produced an online Mental Health Directory that gives an overview of mental health plus a directory of local mental health organisations and services.

Look at the Mental Health Directory

CAHSS

Stockport MIND's Crisis Accommodation and Home Support Service (CAHSS) aims to help people who are experiencing mental distress to help themselves out of a crisis. The service helps to resolves problems and offers counselling, practical and emotional support. It can also help with alternative and supported accommodation when needed and can help you to make plans for the future.

Find out more about CAHSS

 

Richmond Fellowship

Richmond Fellowship are specialist providers of mental health services who believe that each person is unique and should have the opportunity to take control over his or her life. They concentrate on the person and his or her personal needs, choices and aspirations, rather than on diagnostic categories or labels and provide tailor made packages to ensure that people have the choice and control necessary to achieve independent living.

Visit their website

Mental Health Care

A useful website with information about psychosis that has been designed for family
members and friends of people who have a diagnosis of schizophrenia, bipolar disorder or another illness. It may also be useful to people who have personal experience of psychosis, to GPs and to mental health professionals.

Visit their website

 

Useful contacts

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Stockport MIND
Address: Dove House 65 Union Street Stockport SK1 3NP
Phone: 0161 480 7393
Fax: 0161 480 7393
Web: www.stockportmind.org.uk
Email: info@stockportmind.org.uk

Richmond Fellowship
Phone: 0161 248 5354
Fax: 0161 248 6232
Web: www.richmondfellowship.org.uk
Email: manchesterproject@richmondfellowship.org.uk

CAHSS
Address: Unit 5, Nelson Business Park, Nelson Street, Denton, Manchester M34 3ET
Phone: 0161 336 7231
Fax: 0161 335 0633
Web: www.cahss.org.uk
Email: info@cahss.org.uk