Mental health
Approximately 1 in 4 people will experience a mental health problem each year. 1 in 6 people in the UK will experience symptoms of depression or anxiety in any given week.
The symptoms of depression are different for everybody. As a general rule, if you're depressed, you feel sad, hopeless and lose interest in things you used to enjoy.
Anxiety can affect you both physically and mentally. How severe the symptoms are once again varies from person to person. Some people only have 1 or 2 symptoms, others have many more.
See your GP or practice based mental health practitioner if you feel you are developing a mental health problem or have been experiencing any of the above symptoms for over 2 weeks or it is starting to impact your day to day life.
Practice based Senior Mental Health Practitioners
The surgery has two very experienced senior mental health practitioners.
Colleen graduated in 1995 from Ulster University as a mental health nurse. She has 27 years’ experience working across a variety of services within the community mental health setting including specialist areas of addictions, eating disorders and more recently low intensity brief CBT interventions.
Emma graduated from Queen’s University Belfast in 2013 with a BSC in Mental Health Nursing. Emma has worked in a number of different settings including dementia, inpatient and community mental health team’s.
The role and function of the Senior Mental Health Practitioner is to work alongside the GP in practice providing a first contact mental health service to patients. Senior Mental Health Practitioners undertake consultations with patients registered with the practice presenting with a range of mental health needs and based on a standardised assessment pathway will provide an initial formulation of need, provide clinical advice, offer initial short-term brief interventions and/or signpost to other C&V sector services. The Senior Mental Health Practitioner will refer patients with higher level complex mental health conditions directly to more appropriate Mental Health and Social Care Trust services.
If you would like to speak with our senior mental health practitioners regarding your mental health please request this at booking.
gp-mental-health.pdf
It’s ok not to be ok.
#itsoknottobeok
Self Help Leaflets
how-to-talk-to-your-gp-about-your-mental-health.pdf
Self Help Guides | B Well Belfast
Mental Health Self Help leaflets
Good Sleep Guide
Living life to the full- online CBT
https://breatheyourbestlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/478-Breath.pdf
https://www.therapistaid.com/worksheets/grounding-techniques
Useful-Guide-to-Mental-and-Emotional-Wellbeing-resources-PDF.pdf
Get.gg - Getselfhelp.co.uk
5 steps to mental wellbeing - NHS
Useful websites
Depression- Aware NI
Cruse Bereavement Counselling
Hope Again
Help for road victims | Brake
The Compassionate Friends
What is the Lisburn Downtown Centre? - Downtown Centre
Sands | Saving babies' lives. Supporting bereaved families.
The Miscarriage Association:Pregnancy Loss Information & Support
Nexus NI
Women's Aid Belfast
Relate NI
Marriage and Relationship Counselling - Accord NI
Family Mediation NI – Assisting families experiencing the trauma of separation
LGBT support
Home - The Rainbow Project
Transgender NI
Cara Friend – Supporting LGBTQI+ People in Northern Ireland (cara-friend.org.uk)
Helping Alcoholics to Achieve Sobriety - Alcoholics Anonymous Ireland
Gambler's Anonymous
Home - Narcotics Anonymous
Dunlewey Addiction Services – Unlocking the Door to Personal Growth, Learning and Change
Addiction NI
Ascert/Daisy Project
Carlisle House
Sister Consilio's Newry
Men's Advisory Project
MIND
Beat's Services in Northern Ireland
The Laurence Trust – Supporting men and their families living with eating disorders
Belfast Recovery College | Belfast Health & Social Care Trust (hscni.net)
Recovery College - South Eastern Health & Social Care Trust
Home - Cancer Lifeline
Home - Ashton Bridge of Hope - Ashton Bridge of Hope
Home - PIPS Suicide Prevention Ireland (pipscharity.com)
Home | West Wellbeing Suicide Prevention | Dunmurry | Belfast
Holy Trinity Centre | CommunityNI
AMH New Life Counselling | Action Mental Health
Suicide Awareness – (Facebook) 02890239967
Lighthouse Charity Belfast | Lighthouse
jigsawccc.co.uk
Victims & Survivors Support | Wave Trauma Centre | Northern Ireland
Victim Support Northern Ireland (victimsupportni.com)
Aware NI - Aware NI (aware-ni.org)
Home - Stress Control
ICNI-Post-Pregnancy-Counselling-Leaflet.pdf (informingchoicesni.org)
Parentline - CiNI
Barnardo's Northern Ireland | Barnardo's
Home - The Sleep Council
Condition Management Programme | Belfast Health & Social Care Trust website
Condition Management Programme (CMP) - Northern Health and Social Care Trust
Condition Management Programme - South Eastern Health & Social Care Trust
CAMHS (hampshirecamhs.nhs.uk)
Directory of services
Belfast Area Card 02.23 final.pdf
SouthEastern Area Card 02.23 final.pdf
helplines-leaflet-2021.pdf
Drugs and Alcohol - pha | NI
Mental Health Contact Numbers
- Samaritans Helpline 0845 7909090
- 24/7 Lifeline 0808 808 8000
- 24/7 Contact Youth 0808 808 8000
- CAUSE (Carers Helpline) 0845 6030291
- Child Protection Helpline 0808 800 5000
- Childline Helpline 0800 1111
- Childline NI 0870 336 2945
- No Fear Helpline 0845 122 8630
- Obsessive Compulsive Disorder 0845 120 3778
- No Panic (10am – 10pm daily) 0808 808 0545
- Suicide Awareness 02890239967