Mental Health and Wellbeing in North Lincolnshire What you can do to look after yourself Where to get help Directory of advice, help and support Issue 3 : November 2017 Free Welcome! Mental Health 33 Local mental health organisations that provide health and treatment 3 Do I have a mental health 34 Mindfulness and Meditation difficulty? 34 National mental health websites 4 I think I need help. What can I do? and phone numbers 6 I am desperate! What should I do? 35 Offenders and Ex-offenders 7 Telephone Helpline Support 36 Pregnancy and After - Mental Health 9 Nobody’s listening! What can I do? 36 Relationships and Families 12 Talking things over 38 Retirement Age Plus 14 How can I look after my mental health? 39 Self-Harm 15 I am recovering! How do I keep 40 Self Help and Stress Management well? 40 Sexual Health Services 41 Specific Illnesses and Conditions 42 Transport Wellbeing 44 Veterans 45 Work, Volunteering, Training and Support Who can help me and where are they? 46 Young People 16 Abuse 18 Activity and Social Groups Appendices 20 Adult Learning 21 Alcohol and Drugs 23 Anxiety and Depression 49 Appendix 1 Care Homes 24 Benefits, Debts and Finance 51 Appendix 2 Dentists 26 Bereavement 52 Appendix 3 Doctors 27 Caring and Support 54 Appendix 4 Home Support Providers 28 Counselling and Talking Therapies 56 Appendix 5 Opticians 28 Dementia 57 Appendix 6 Pharmacies 29 Dementia – Information, Guidance and Standards 29 Eating Habits 30 End of Life Further Information 30 Gambling 31 Homeless Prevention Services and 59 I can’t find what I’m looking for Housing Support 59 Acknowledgements 33 LGBT 2 Mental Health and Wellbeing in North Lincolnshire • Healthwatch North Lincolnshire Do I have a mental health difficulty? Some of the problems that you or those around you may notice are: • Low mood or feeling unhappy most of the time • Loss of enjoyment and interest in life • Feeling tired and lethargic • Inability to cope with things that used to be manageable • Difficulty concentrating and making decisions • Feeling listless and agitated • Loss of appetite or weight; or weight gain • Lack of sleep or too much sleep • Loss of libido • Thinking of death or suicide Are any of these long lasting, showing We all have mental health. no sign of improvement or severe? Just like our bodies, our Everyone will feel low from time to time and minds can become unwell. everyone has something that they feel anxious about. It’s when these very normal emotional experiences have unhelpful effects on day to At times we can struggle and day life that they can be termed a common mental health problem. our mental health is not as Some of the problems people might want good as it should be. help and support with include: • Depression and low mood Help is at hand . • Problems with anxiety (including social anxiety and generalised anxiety) • Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) This guide covers where • Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) • Specific phobia you can go and what help • Panic disorder and support there is in North • Stress Lincolnshire. Website: www.northlincs.gov.uk/people- health-and-care/health-and-healthy-lifestyle/ mental-health-and-emotional-well-being Mental Health and Wellbeing in North Lincolnshire • Healthwatch North Lincolnshire 3 I think I need help. What can I do? Around 1 in 4 people will If you are aged 18 and over, you can access experience some kind of the RDaSH mental health services through their Single Point of Access (SPA) mental health difficulty Service on 01724 382015 or by contacting in their lifetime. Most your GP. You may also be referred by other health and social care professionals. commonly these are When SPA receives your referral you will be depression or some form of offered a mental health triage and assessment anxiety. to enable you to be directed to the most appropriate service to meet your needs. This may be provided by teams within the Trust. Mental Health affects us all. How If a psychological need is identified by the SPA team, you will be referred to the most we think and feel about ourselves appropriate service for you. and our lives impacts on our Improving Access to Psychological behaviour and how we cope in Therapies (IAPT) in North tough times. Lincolnshire. IAPT are team of Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners (PWPs) and Cognitive Behaviour Therapists (CBTs) who Realise you are not alone and you support people who are experiencing common mental health problems which are mostly can be helped! anxiety and depression disorders. Included in this are: • Generalised anxiety disorders Rotherham, Doncaster & South Humber • Obsessive compulsive disorders NHS Foundation Trust (RDaSH) • Post-traumatic stress disorders Trust Headquarters, Woodfield House, • Panic disorders Tickhill Road Site, Balby, Doncaster, South Yorkshire, DN4 8QN You can either refer yourself to The Talking Shop, 19 Market Hill, Scunthorpe, Tele: 01724 Telephone: 01302 796000 (switchboard) 867297 or be referred by your GP. Email: [email protected] Twitter: @rdash_nhs Website: www.rdash.nhs.uk/about-us/ How do I access Adult Mental Health Services? RDaSH NHS Foundation Trust In North Lincolnshire, the Trust provides a range of The Single Point of Access Service specialist mental health services for children, provides a first point of contact for all people young people and adults as well as health aged 18 and over who have been referred services for adults with a Learning Disability. to adult and older people’s mental health They have 2 acute inpatients wards based at services in North Lincolnshire. Great Oaks as well as community services. 4 Mental Health and Wellbeing in North Lincolnshire • Healthwatch North Lincolnshire People can be referred by their GP or they can The service also provides an Out-of-Hours refer themselves by telephoning the number Service across Scunthorpe, Doncaster & below. At times of mental health crisis, the Rotherham 7 days a week for young people up service works closely with the intensive to the age of 18 years who have attended A&E home treatment and early discharge team. with mental health issues. This may be in the Telephone: 01724 382015 (including crisis form of telephone consultation or face to face referrals) You will be signposted to the most assessment. For young people aged 16 years - appropriate service depending upon your level 18 years this will be undertaken by the Local of need. This may include the out of hours GP, Adult Mental Health Service, under certain a voluntary organisation or the Access/Crisis circumstances a joint consultation/assessment Team. with a member of the CAMHS team may be undertaken. What about services for people aged The Community Eating Disorder Service is also based within CAMHS and offers support under 18? to children and young people experiencing moderate to severe eating disorders. For children and young people there is a separate service. This is called CAMHS (Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services) and is an NHS service. In line with Adult Community Mental Health FIM (Future-In-Mind) the service provides Services consultation to Children Services, School Mental Health Champions, Youth Offending This is a recovery based community mental Service, GP’s (General Practitioners) health service for people who have enduring Educational Services and other partner mental health problems. agencies. The service also undertakes Mental Health Assessment and Therapeutic The service is provided in partnership with Interventions for children and young people North Lincolnshire Council and in conjunction up to the age of 18 years and where required with other mental health services. The will support young people who are accessing service works closely with service users and therapy to transit into Adult Mental Health carers, their families, primary care services, Services. Self-referrals can be made to the and other local statutory and non-statutory service by young people aged 13 years - 18 agencies and is delivered by multi-disciplinary years, however self-referrals are not taken for teams who are based at 344 Ashby Road. Eating Disorders or Diagnostics e.g. ADHD & Telephone: 01724 275959. ASD. Referral for this service is via your GP Home Treatment Service or by self-referral through the North Lincolnshire CAMHS on 01724 408460 Assertive Outreach RDaSH Children and Adolescent For people with severe and enduring mental Mental Health Services (CAMHS) are health problems. based at St Nicholas House, Shelford Street, Telephone: 01724 382000 Scunthorpe, DN15 6NU and can be contacted from 9am until 5pm, Monday to Friday. Intensive Community Therapies For service users with a diagnosis of severe Tel: 01724 408460 depression or personality disorders where there is the telephone number 01724 275959 and includes Recovery Team. Mental Health and Wellbeing in North Lincolnshire • Healthwatch North Lincolnshire 5 I am desperate. What should I do? Do something not nothing. Samaritans Scunthorpe Branch Lindum Street, Scunthorpe, DN15 6QU If you have these feelings Telephone: 01724 860000 or Free national helpline: 116123 it is better to do something Text: 07725 909090 now and stop things getting Email: [email protected] National website: www.samaritans.org worse. Samaritans is a totally confidential service which provides 24/7 emotional support for If you are considering people suffering with feelings of despair and distress including those feelings which may suicide speak to someone lead to suicide. and get help now. If you want someone to talk to you can call the Samaritans about anything that’s troubling It is important to speak to you. The Samaritans can be contacted on their local or national help line numbers which are someone. available around the clock (24/7), or call in to the branch detailed above to meet with a Samaritan Listener (opening hours vary Can you speak to someone you please call first to check).