If you are worried about your health and feel unsafe, please use the contacts below

URGENT SUPPORT

We understand that the winter break for some is a time of celebration, while for others it is a reminder of discomfort.  We empathise that life and college can become a lot to manage, and hope you find our Winter Wellbeing information helpful.

Winter Wellbeing 2021

How can Counselling help? Counselling is for anyone and everyone who needs someone impartial to talk to about your mental and emotional needs. The therapeutic relationship between counsellor and student is confidential and can help you feel fully heard and understood.

Student Counselling Service

At times, we can feel lonely or isolated and feel we have no-one to talk to.  

To help you through these times, we have put together some videos that may help.  There are also links to some support organisations should you want to talk to someone.

Loneliness and Isolation

When we can't get a regular sleep pattern going, it can really affect our moods.  Whether we are struggling getting to sleep, constantly waking up, or struggling to get up in the morning, it all has an impact on us.

Here you will find some resources to help you manage your sleep better.

Sleep

Food as well as affecting our physical health, what we eat may also affect the way we feel.
Improving your diet may help to:

improve your mood
give you more energy
help you think more clearly

Nutrition

Anxiety is what we feel when worried, nervous, tense or afraid.  It is a natural part of human life, but if it becomes too high or is affecting you day to day you may be looking for some tips to help with this.

Anxiety and Panic Attacks

Grief is a natural response to loss.  It's the emotional suffering we all feel when something or someone you love is taken away.  You may experience all kinds of difficult and unexpected emotions, from shock or anger to disbelief, guilt and profound sadness.

The pain of grief can also disrupt your physical health, making it difficult to sleep, eat or even think straight.  These are normal reactions to loss and the more significant the loss, the more intense your grief will be.

Grief and Loss

Gender-based violence is violence directed against a person because of their gender.  Both women and men experience gender-based violence, but the majority of victims are women and girls.

Gender Based Violence

Depression is a low mood that lasts for a long time, and affects your everyday life.

In its mildest form, depression can mean just being in low spirits.  It doesn't stop you leading your normal life but makes everything harder to do and seem less worthwhile.

Depression/Low Mood

Coping skills are strategies that help people deal with mental health challenges in order to achieve positive mental health and wellbeing.  Coping skills take many forms.  People can use their own personal coping skills to take charge of their thoughts, feelings and actions, and when they do, they find that they experience mental health and even begin to thrive.

My Coping Strategy

It's OK not to be OK.
Make time for Self-Care and look after yourself for a change.
Self-Care means taking time to do things you enjoy, and taking care of yourself.  When used consistently, self-care can reduce stress, relieve uncomfortable emotions, and improve physical health.

Mental Health and Wellbeing

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