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Help in a Mental Health Crisis

This information is to support you in a mental health crisis, alongside your own crisis safety plan [if you have one].

Important – try to inform supportive family or friends how you are feeling.

During office hours: [between 9am – 5pm Monday – Friday]

  • Contact your community mental health worker if you have one

  • Ring your GP and arrange for an emergency appointment as soon as possible

Outside office hours: [between 5pm – 9am Monday – Friday and at weekends]

  • Contact NHS Direct on 111 and select OPTION 2 for mental health support. NHS Direct can offer advice 24/7 – 365 days a year. It is free to call from a landline or mobile phone.
  • Ring your GP to contact the out of hours GP service.
  • Ring or go straight to Northern General Hospital Accident & Emergency department (tel 0114 243 43 43). The Mental Health Crisis and Home Treatment Team and Liaison Psychiatry Teams can provide assessments.

IF YOU OR SOMEONE ELSE IS IN IMMEDIATE RISK OF SERIOUS HARM OR INJURY, AND CAN’T GO TO A&E, YOU SHOULD CALL THE EMERGENCY SERVICE BY DIALLING 999.

Other sources of support:

  • IDAS 0808 808 2241 Sheffield Domestic Abuse Helpline free confidential helpline. The helpline is available Monday – Friday 8.00am – 8.00pm and Saturday/Sunday/Bank Holidays 11.00am – 8.00pm. Out of these hours you can call the National Domestic Violence Helpline 24/7: 0808 2000 247 IDAS
  • Samaritans (Sheffield) 24/7 Helpline: 0114 276 7277 Alternatively you can drop into their office at 272 Queens Road, Sheffield, S2 4DL
  • National Samaritans: 116 123 Samaritans | Every life lost to suicide is a tragedy | Here to listen
  • Mind Sheffield 0114 258 4489/Mind info line Mon-Fri 9am-6pm 0300 123 33 93 or text 86463 Home – Mind
  • CASS Self Injury Helpline 0808 800 8088 Open Mondays and Thursdays 7pm – 10pm (Mondays – staffed by volunteers of all genders; Thursdays – staffed by self-identifying women only) Text service available : 07537 432 444 Self Injury Support

 

Links to local domestic and sexual abuse services can be found here.

Mental Health Crisis Plan

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Mental Wellbeing and the Coronavirus Pandemic:

The coronavirus outbreak caused us all anxiety. Please see our page, Self Help During the Coronavirus Pandemic for support that you can continue to use from home now that we are getting back to normal.

You could also have a look at this NHS advice: 11 tips to cope with anxiety about getting “back to normal”.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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