Call 999 or go to A&E now if:

  • someone's life is at risk - for example, they have seriously injured themselves or taken an overdose
  • you do not feel you can keep yourself or someone else safe

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Get advice from 111 or ask for an urgent GP appointment if:

  • you need urgent help for your mental health

Get help from 111 online or call 111 and select the mental health option.

Local Support

The Psychological Wellbeing Service

The Psychological Wellbeing Service (PWS, also known as Individual Access to Psychological Therapies, or IAPT) offers psychological treatments across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough.

The service is for patients aged 17 and over who are suffering from mild to moderate depression and anxiety disorders including generalised anxiety, social anxiety, post traumatic stress, health anxiety, panic, phobia or obsessive compulsive disorder.

The talking therapies offered by PWS aim to help you understand what is happening to you, work through your difficult feelings and learn new ways of coping in order to improve your wellbeing.

Visit the Psychological Wellbeing Service website

Cogwheel Trust

Cogwheel provides counselling and psychotherapy support for people in Cambridgeshire

Visit the Cogwheel Trust website

Centre 33

Supporting young people up to the age of 25 with mental health, caring responsibilities, housing, sexual health and more.

Visit the Centre 33 website

Waythrough

Whether you need confidential support for mental health, drugs, alcohol or related challenges, you’re in the right place.

Visit the Waythrough website

National Support

Mind

Mind provide advice and support to empower anyone experiencing a mental health problem. They campaign to improve services, raise awareness and promote understanding.

Visit the Mind website

Rethink Mental Illness

Rethink Mental Illness improve the lives of people severely affected by mental illness through a network of local groups and services, expert information and successful campaigning. The goal is to make sure everyone affected by severe mental illness has a good quality of life.

Visit the Rethink website

Anxiety UK

Anxiety UK was formed in 1970, by Katharine and Harold Fisher as a result of Katharine’s experience of agoraphobia and her desire to develop support for others similarly affected.

Visit the Anxiety UK website

Samaritans

Samaritans offer a safe place for you to talk any time you like, in your own way – about whatever’s getting to you. You don’t have to be suicidal. Call Samaritans free, 24 hours a day 365 days a year.

Visit the Samaritans website

Combat Stress

Combat Stress is the UK’s leading charity for veterans’ mental health. For a century, they’ve helped former servicemen and women with mental health problems such as anxiety, depression and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

Visit the Combat Stress website

CALM (Campaign against living miserably)

The Campaign Against Living Miserably (CALM) is leading a movement against male suicide, the single biggest killer of men under 45 in the UK.

Visit the CALM website

Young Minds

Young Minds is leading the fight for a future where all young minds are supported and empowered, whatever their challenges.

Visit the Young Minds website