Resources for people with unusual distressing experiences

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Doc Ready

Price: Free Doc Ready has info and advice about what to expect and how to plan to speak to a GP about your mental health.

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Mindful

Price: Free The Mindful website has lots of self-help advice, information and resources that have been written by young people and professionals. It is for young people aged between 11 and 17 and is a great if you want to learn more about your mental health and wellbeing

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The MoodGYM

Price: Free The MoodGYM is a free, fun and interactive programme that teaches you cognitive behaviour therapy skills for preventing and coping with depression. It aims to help you identify and overcome problem emotions and show you how to develop skills that can help you cope with these emotions and improve your wellbeing.

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My Journey

Price: Free My Journey was created by Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust and young people who have used their services. It is designed to help you keep track of how you're feeling and help you make informed choices about what to do to improve your mental health

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WellHappy

WellHappy is a free health app for young people aged 12-25 in London. It allows you to search for over a thousand local support services including mental health, sexual health and substance misuse services. It also has useful FAQs and Answers, a jargon buster and useful helplines for when you need to talk to someone.

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Get Self Help

This website has lots of free and paid self-help resources and information to help you to take steps to improve your mental health and wellbeing. The website has useful worksheets and mp3s that you might find helpful

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Living Life to the Full

Living Life to the Full is a website that lets you access free self-help resources that teaches key knowledge in how to tackle issues in our everyday lives.

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Headspace

Struggling with thoughts and feelings you're not used to can be tough. Sometimes it can be scary too. But there is an easy-to-learn skill called mindfulness, which has been scientifically proven to reduce feelings of fear, stress and anxiety. It's even the focus of ongoing research into managing symptoms of psychosis. Mindfulness is often taught in group sessions over several months, but there are also ways to learn it yourself, in your own time, with as little as 10 minutes practice per day. Headspace is a website and mobile app service which serves up a no-nonsense approach to mindfulness called Take10. It's free to download, free to use and you can do it as many times as you like. And if you're feeling really inspired, there's even an affordable subscription programme, which looks at everything from sleep, to focus, to relationships. Either way, Take10 is the place to begin.

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Five Ways to Wellbeing

Live life to the full of this easy to use Five Ways to Wellbeing app. It offers a practical way to help you feel good and function well in the world

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HeadMeds

HeadMeds is a new website, developed by YoungMinds, to provide young people with accessible, useful information about mental health medication. HeadMeds has been developed by pharmacology experts and young people, and has been endorsed by the Royal College of General Practitioners and the College of Mental Health Pharmacy. HeadMeds provides answers to some of the difficult questions young people may have about their medication but feel uncomfortable asking their GP, such as 'Will it affect my sex life?' or 'Can I drink with this medication?'. HeadMeds includes information about potential side effects and when a young person should go and get help. Complete with real life stories and created with young people at its heart, HeadMeds provides much needed straight talk on mental health medication.

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Overcoming OCD – David Veale & Rob Wilson

The step-by-step approach adopted in Overcoming Obsessive Compulsive Disorder uses CBT techniques to help those with OCD break free from their obsessive behaviour and regain control over their lives.

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Overcoming Paranoid & Suspicious Thoughts – Daniel Freeman, Jason Freeman & Philippa Garety

Overcoming Paranoid & Suspicious Thoughts is a self-help guide written by practising clinicians, based on their clinical experience and ground-breaking research. Based on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), readers are helped to analyse and understand their suspicious thoughts, to step back from them and observe them, seeing them for what they really are, and then to learn a number of different strategies to help manage and eventually eradicate them.

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Overcoming Distressing Voices – Mark Hayward, Clara Strauss & David Kingdon

Voice hearing or 'auditory hallucinations' is more common than might be expected, affecting 2-4 per cent of us. It can be experienced as part of a range of mental-health disorders, including schizophrenia, affective psychosis and dissociative conditions. Learning to live with the condition can be challenging; however, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), on which this authoritative self-help guide is based, has been found to be highly effective.

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Overcoming Depression – Paul Gilbert

First published in‚ 1997 and now in its third edition, ‚ Overcoming Depression‚ is one of the world's most popular self-help books on depression, selling 130,000 copies in the UK alone and translated into many other languages around the world. It is recommended by the NHS‚ Books on Prescription‚ scheme.

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Overcoming Social Anxiety & Shyness – Gillian Butler

Overcoming Social Anxiety and Shyness‚ is a classic self-help guide, now recommended as part of the NHS Books on Prescription scheme. Full of real-life examples this easy-to-use guide is suitable for those who suffer from all degrees of social anxiety and shyness.

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The Compassionate Mind – Paul Gilbert

In societies that encourage us to compete with each other, compassion is often seen as a weakness. Striving to get ahead, self-criticism, fear and hostility towards others seem to come more naturally to us. This ground-breaking new self-help book explains the evolutionary and social reasons why our brains are also hardwired to respond to kindness and compassion.

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Know Your Mind: Everyday Emotional and Psychological Problems and How to Overcome Them – Daniel Freeman & Jason Freeman

Know Your Mind is a comprehensive guide to more than 50 everyday emotional and psychological problems - the definitive resource for anyone seeking advice for themselves, or for a family member or friend. The only self-help book to be endorsed by the British Psychological Society. Co-written by one of the UK's leading clinical psychologists and informed by the best evidence-based clinical practice, it distils the best and most up-to-date psychological research to provide both a concise summary of the proactive steps you can take to stay mentally healthy and a comprehensive reference guide to common problems.

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Being in school, college and university with psychosis

Videos of young people with psychosis talking about their experiences of school, college, and University.

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