Ten Top Tips for Depression
- Self care
- Exercise
- Diet
- Noticing what's around you: the 'wow' effect
- Breathe
- Music
- Talk to other people, including your GP. Medication may be helpful
- Do something for someone else
- Deal with negative thoughts
- Keep a 'plus' record
Resource list
- Studentdepression.org
Specialist website for students, set up with input from students and regularly updated - Moodgym.anu.edu.au
Free on line self help materials developed by the Australian National University - Living Life to the Full
On line ‘skills resource’. Some parts are free - Depression Alliance
National Charity with focus on depression. Website and leaflets for information, facebook page and self help groups
www.depressionalliance.org - Student Nightline
Phone, Skype and online help for students by students 6pm-8am in term time
www.nightline.org.uk, 020 7631 0101, or listening@nightline.org.uk - Samaritans
24 hours phone or email befriending support
08457 909090 or jo@samaritans.org - Information leaflets also from Mind www.mind.org and the Royal College of Psychiatrists www.rcpsych.ac.uk
