• If you have taken an overdose or you have harmed yourself call 999 immediately and ask for help, alternatively go to your nearest A & E department.

• If you need to speak to someone now, call the 24 Hour Mental Health Matters Helpline on 0800 107 0160 and a trained telephone adviser will support you to find help, or link through to the Time Online Support by either clicking the link in the right hand menu (time online is not a 24 hour service).

• If you are already known to services and feel that you are relapsing or having a crisis in hours (9-5 Monday – Friday), call your care co-ordinator in the Community Mental Health Team or if your care co-ordinator is not available speak to the duty worker. To find the details of your local Community Mental Health Team click here. For services out of hours call the Crisis Resolution Home Treatment Teams click here for more information.

• If you have never had any contact with services or are not currently seeing anyone and you are hearing or seeing things that others don’t, experiencing extreme mood swings or mistaken beliefs (such as others are trying to harm you), thoughts of self harming, suicide or are in mental distress then contact your GP. Phone numbers for surgeries are available via the NHS website.
  Out of hours GPs in Kent are on 03000 242424 and in Medway on 01634 891855.

General support

Anxious? Depressed? Find out about talking therapies and other support available by clicking here.

For information about support available for carers, click here.

For information about claiming benefits, click here.

For information about your rights, click here.

For information about mental health advocacy click here.

If you’ve been diagnosed with a mental health condition and want to read more about it, Mind have an excellent A – Z guide available. You can find out more by clicking here.

Additional Help and Support

• Call SANEline – 6pm – 11pm every evening – 0845 767 8000. They also have SANEmail, offering the same services online via email, you can contact them by clicking here.

• Call the Samaritans for 24 hour support for people experiencing a crisis – Call 08457 90 90 90, they also offer support via email, letter and face-to-face.

• Cruse Bereavement Care promotes the well-being of bereaved people and enables anyone bereaved by death to understand their grief and cope with their loss.They provide free care to all bereaved people. Click here for their website, they also run a national telephone helpline that is open for calls from 9.30 – 5pm or 7pm on Mondays and Wednesdays their telephone number is 0844 477 9400.

• Eating Disorders: It is important that people with an eating disorder get help early. The usual first port of call should be your GP. Many patients can be supported by their family doctor, who will also be able to refer you for more specialist help if you need it. Mental Health Matters helpline offers confidential emotional support, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, on 0800 107 0160. You may also be interested in talking therapies, click here for more information. For more details about specialist eating disorders services, click here.

• LGBT mental health – NHS Choices have some information on LGBT Mental Health click here to go to their webpage, there is also the webpage LGBT Mind Matters which is supported by Mind and specifically set up to promote LGBT Mental Health click here for their website.

• Dementia – For help and support on dementia services in Kent and Medway click here to go through to the KMPT dementia services page or click here if you want to visit the dementia web pages for Kent and Medway.

•  Drugs & Alcohol- for listings of services in Kent and Medway click here, or to see the KMPT information click here or to see Live It Well’s information on drugs and alcohol click here.

• Young Peoples Mental Health – click here to visit the Kent and Medway CAMHS Services page or if you want to find out more about early intervention services in Kent and Medway click here.  Young Minds also provide help and informaiton to improve the mental and emotional wellbeing of all children and young people, to access their website click here.  Kent House on the Move also have additional information and local events you can access their page by clicking here or to see the information on KCC’s webpage on young peoples health click here. If you are worried about a friends mental health, maybe they are stressed, anxious or depressed you can go to the Epic Friends website for help and ideas as to how you can support someone, click here to access the site.

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