Mental Health
One in four adults and one in ten children experience mental illness, and many more of us know and care for people who do.
Click on the headings below to find out about resources available to support people in Leeds experiencing difficulties with their mental health.
Local Mental Health Resources
Feel like you've had enough? (Leeds Crisis Card)
This pocket-sized fold out leaflet contains contact details for mental health support services in Leeds for those in crisis.
Crisis Cards can be downloaded from the MindWell website, or ordered from the Public Health Resource Centre.
'How are you feeling?' (booklet)
This 16 page guide provides information on support services in Leeds, including help with money, housing, or work issues. It also contains self-care tips, and directs readers to further information online.
Copies of the leaflet can be obtained from the Public Health Resource Centre.
MindWell
MindWell is the mental health website for people in Leeds.
It provides access to a range of information, including:
- the mental health support and services available in Leeds.
- Information on a range of common mental health problems such as anxiety and stress.
- What to do in a mental health crisis.
MindMate
MindMate Leeds is the name for all the different ways children and young people in the city can get support with their mental health and wellbeing.
The MindMate website is an information hub for Leeds, and includes:
- free and accredited services available across the city
- advice and information on a range of mental health issues
- stories and experiences of young people and their mental health
- guidance for self-care and where necessary, self-referral.
Reading Well for mental health
Reading Well are an organisation that provides book collections recommended by health experts, as well as people with lived experience of the conditions and topics covered and their relatives and carers.
They have provided a list of books on reading well for mental health.These books and many previous wellbeing book reccomendations from Reading Well are all on our library catalogue.
To reserve and loan these books, you just need to join your local healthcare library.
Other useful websites
You may also be interested in the following useful links:
- Arts & Minds Network : The Arts & Minds Network brings together people in Leeds who believe creativity can promote mental wellbeing.
- Age UK Leeds : A local charity supporting older people, their families, and carers.
- Black Health Initiative : A community engagement organisation working towards equality of access to Health and Social Care around Leeds.
- Carers Leeds : A charity that gives specialist support, advice and information to unpaid carers aged over 16.
- Community Links: A non-profit provider of mental health and criminal justice services in Yorkshire and the Humber.
- Leeds Mind: Leeds Mind promotes positive mental health and wellbeing, and provides help and support to anyone who needs it in and around Leeds.
- Leeds Mind Suicide Bereavement Services: Compassionate support for people bereaved or affected by suicide.
- Leeds Survivor-Led Crisis Service: A mental health charity based in Leeds, providing out-of-hours support to people in acute mental health crisis.
- Mental health self-help guides: Downloadable NHS leaflets, also available in easy read, audio, and BSL video format.
- Solace: A Leeds-based charity providing mental health and wellbeing support for refugees and asylum seekers.
- St Annes Community Services: A charity supporting some of society's most vulnerable people, including those experiencing homelessness.
- The Mental Elf: A blog, highlighting evidence-based publications relevant to mental health practice in the UK and further afield.
- Touchstone: Touchstone provide health and wellbeing services to over 10,000 people in diverse communities across Yorkshire every year.
- Togetherall: A digital mental health support service which is available online, 24/7.
- Young Minds: Provides young people with the tools to look after their mental health, as well as empower adults to be the best support they can be to the young people in their lives.