If you feel you are at the end of your tether, you are not alone.
If you need immediate, urgent help with a mental health issue:
Blurt
The Blurt website offers excellent advice if you are in immediate crisis.
SANEline
0300 304 7000. A specialist mental health helpline available between 6pm and 11pm each evening.
Heads Together
A mental health charity spearheaded by the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Harry. Click here for their excellent list of support resources.
Bristol Samaritans
01179 831000. They are there 24 hours a day to help you talk things through and get help.
NHS Direct
Dial 111. This is a 24-hour line which has psychiatric staff who can help you work out what to do next.
MIND charity
0808 808 0330. This line is open Wednesday to Sunday, from 8pm to midnight. They also have this guide to what to do in a mental health crisis.
Helpline Search
Helplines Partnership have a comprehensive list of helplines for all kinds of different issues
Psychology Tools offers free downloadable resources to help with mental health issues.
Bristol Mental Health has a list of mental health services in Bristol
If you need non-urgent help:
It’s important to remember that the counsellor or therapist you see does not necessarily have to have any experience with autism in order to help you. A good mental health professional will take whatever you bring and help you through the issues that are distressing you.
SANE Textcare
Having a mental health condition, or caring for someone who does, may leave you feeling distressed, lonely or isolated. Textcare provides help at times that are relevant for you.
Click here to learn more
Womankind
Womankind provides women in the Bristol area with free or affordable professional counselling, psychotherapy and on-going support.
Telephone: 0117 9166461
Website: http://www.womankindbristol.org.uk/
Heart to Heart
A low-cost counselling service that is quick and stress free to access, based in Kingswood.
Telephone: 07926 314739
Website: http://www.hearttoheartbristol.co.uk/
Low Cost Counselling
Experienced counsellors and trainee counsellors with a wide verity of backgrounds. The Counselling is delivered by experienced students who are in their final years of training.
Telephone: 07927 355028
Website: http://www.lowcostcounselling.co.uk/
AffordableTalk
A talking therapy service which makes counselling, CBT and psychotherapy more accessible for individuals, couples and young people.
Telephone: 0755 7511 970
Website: http://affordable-talk.co.uk
Relationship support
Couples counselling may help you both to see things from the other’s perspective and come to an understanding. You don’t need an autism expert to help you.
Relate can help you find a suitable counsellor, with reasonable fees. See http://www.relate-avon.org.uk/ or ring 01179 428444.
Marriage Care also offers counselling, both by phone and in person, and charges are flexible. See http://www.marriagecare.org.uk/how-we-help/relationship-counselling/ or ring 0800 389 3801 or 01159 934255.
