If you feel unable to keep yourself safe, it may be a mental health emergency.
Supporting you with your emotional wellbeing is a priority at Durrington High.
There may be times when you need to speak to someone in school or you would prefer to access support independently for your mental health. We can talk to you about a referral for counselling in school or out of school and can direct you to websites and APPS that may help. You can always speak to someone from your House team or Ms Tunbridge-Adams or Mrs Hatchard from the Wellbeing team if you need advice. Reaching out might feel hard to do at first but we are here to help you get the right support.
Ms Tunbridge-Adams
Director of Safeguarding
If you need to speak to someone outside of school hours or during the school holidays, please take a look at the following recommended support sites;
Anxiety
MindShift CBT - Anxiety Relief
Manage your anxiety, relax & be mindful.
Break free from anxiety and stress using this free evidence-based anxiety management app. MindShift CBT uses scientifically proven strategies based on cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT).
Self-help App for the Mind (SAM)
SAM is a non-profit, community-backed wellbeing app to help you monitor and manage your mental health, with self-help techniques to help with anxiety, depression, loneliness and coping. SAM is informed by clinical best practice and academic research.
Worry Tree
WorryTree helps you to take control of your worries, transform your thoughts and feel better, using proven Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) techniques.
Clear Fear
Clear Fear provides you with a range of ways to manage the symptoms of anxiety.
Self-Esteem
Self Harm
Calm Harm
Join over 2 million users and learn to ride the wave with the free Calm Harm app by choosing activities from these categories: Comfort, Distract, Express Yourself, Release, and Random.
Suicidal Thoughts
Stay Alive
Stay Alive is a pocket suicide prevention resource for the UK, packed full of useful information and tools to help people stay safe in crisis. You can use it if you are having thoughts of suicide or if you are concerned about someone else who may be considering suicide.
Stress
Giant Mind
Learn to meditate in 12 easy steps, then take the 30 day challenge to make meditation a daily habit.
With 1 Giant Mind, Jonni Pollard, a master meditation teacher, author, and founder of the 1 Giant Mind Teacher Training Academy will teach you how to learn a ‘Being’ meditation technique. With 4 years of in-app research, this app has proven to reduce stress levels and generate overall better well being for users.
Feeling good Teens
Username & Password: coboost
Feeling Good Teens has 11 tracks, of varying length from 3 minutes to 11 minutes, with tracks that guide mindful relaxation, muscle relaxation, calming the mind, building self-confidence, coping with exam stress and sleeping well.
YMCA
YMCA Youth Counselling is a community-based counselling service, able to support young people aged 11-18. Anyone can refer the young person or they can self-refer.
YMCA Dialogue offers face-to-face and online counselling, as well as group work, for young people aged 11 to 18 in West Sussex. Face-to-face sessions take place in Lancing, Shoreham and Worthing. Information about online counselling can be found on the E-Wellbeing website.
Email or call 07739 893707 if you are interested in receiving either face-to-face or online counselling.
Chat Health
Chat Health is a text service from Children and Families that enables young people at secondary school to reach out to the school nurse team to ask for help about a range of issues including confidential advice regarding bullying, emotional health and wellbeing, sexual health as well as illnesses.
Chat Health is:
- Confidential
- Quick and easy
- Anonymous
- Non-judgemental
Text Chat Health on 07480 635424 for advice on anything to do with your health and wellbeing. Or, go to E-Wellbeing website
Young People’s Shop (now known as The Chichester Information Shop)
YPS is a charity that offers free and confidential support for young people aged between 11 and 25 who are struggling with their mental health. We are based in Chichester but aim to ensure that every young person in Chichester and Arun Districts can access help and advice when they need it.
https://yps-south.org.uk/young-people/counselling/
01243 839093
GP practises:
We have mental health workers based in GP practices in Worthing and surrounding areas.
We are offering free mental health support to children and young people, aged 8 – 17.
If you are worried about your emotional well-being, are looking for advice or would like to understand ways to cope, you can speak to a staff member at your GP surgery, who could refer you to one of our team. We can then help you with.
– one-to-one support, including face-to-face sessions, phone or video calls.
– After doing an initial assessment of your needs and creating a support plan, we would generally offer you six sessions of one-to-one support with an emphasis on working towards your goals
getting other support in the wider community. This includes linking you in with activities that might be beneficial for your mental health.
Worthing Counselling Centre
As a charity we ensure that no-one is excluded from counselling because of cost.
Affordable Counselling For You.
WE CURRENTLY HAVE A WAITING TIME OF 4 to 12 weeks, however do contact us and we will work with you to find the right support.
Funding: We have a small, limited fund available if you are in receipt of benefits or have a very small income.
https://www.worthingcounsellingcentre.org/counselling-for-you/
Emergency Support
If your life is at risk right now
If you feel like you might attempt suicide, or may have seriously harmed yourself, you need urgent medical help. Please:
- Call 999 for an ambulance
- Go straight to A&E, if you can
- Call your local crisis team – if you don’t already have their number, you can find an urgent mental health helpline on the NHS website
If you can’t do this by yourself, ask someone to help you.
Mental health emergencies are serious. You’re not wasting anyone’s time.
To this day I am so thankful that I was told to go to A&E. Sometimes you need to hit a low in order to move on from one.
If you don’t want to call 999
If you can keep yourself safe for a short while, but you still need urgent advice:
- Contact NHS 111 if you live in England
- Contact NHS 111 Wales if you live in Wales (select option 2 to access urgent mental health support)
- Contact a local urgent mental health helpline (England only)
- Contact your GP surgery and ask for an emergency appointment. Many GPs are now offering these remotely.
If you need to talk right now
Whatever you’re going through, there are people you can talk to any time. You can:
- call Samaritans on 116 123 (UK-wide)
- text SHOUT to 85258 (UK-wide)
- call C.A.L.L. on 0800 132 737 (Wales only)
These services are for anyone who’s struggling.
They won’t judge you.
They’re free, they’re anonymous, and they’re always open.
