HOW TO SPOT THE SIGNS OF POSSIBLE MENTAL AND EMOTIONAL ISSUES
Here are a few key pointers that may indicate your child could be showing early signs of mental illness.
- Sudden changes to sleeping or eating patterns
- Aggressive outbursts
- Getting tearful or panicky about social events
- Lacking in motivation and struggling with schoolwork
- Refusal to go to school
Useful Links
- All Saints community project - www.allsaintscommunityproject.org.uk
- Carers first in Kent and Medway - www.carersfirst.org.uk
- Heathwatch Medway - www.healthwatch.co.uk
- North Kent Mind - www.northkentmind.co.uk
- Mental Health Foundation - www.mentalhealth.org.uk
- Manage Your Mind, Manage your life (free weekly workshops) www.manageyourmind.org.uk
- Rethink Mental Illness - www.rethink.org
- Young Minds - www.youngminds.org.uk parent helpline - free and confidential 0808 802 5544 lines open 9:30 - 16:00 Mon-Fri
- Primary Care Psychological Therapies Service Need to talk - Anxiety, depression,stress www.kmptnhs/pcpts Call 0800 2799500
Contacts
- Samaritans - Call 116 123 - email jo@samaritans.org
- NHS Direct call 111 operate 24hrs
- Mental HealthMatters helpline 0800 107 0160 round the clock support