Urgent help for mental health
It's important to know that support services are available for you to access, whatever you’re going through.
- Where to get urgent mental health support.
- Oxleas Crisis line/mental health urgent advice line - 0800 330 8590. Free calls, all year, 24hrs a day.
- Crisis Cafe Bexleyhealth, MIND in Bexley, 2a Devonshire Road, DA6 8DS 6pm-10pm. (18 years and over.)
- A&E - Liaison Psychiatry
- GP
What is mental wellbeing in adults?
Your mental wellbeing is about your thoughts and feelings and how you cope with the ups and downs of everyday life.
Good mental wellbeing doesn't mean you're always happy or unaffected by your experiences. But poor mental wellbeing can make it more difficult to cope with daily life.
What does good mental wellbeing look like?
Importantly, good mental wellbeing is NOT the absence of negative thoughts and feelings. We all face difficult and challenging situations that cause us to feel angry, sad, overwhelmed and everything in between. Instead, it's about being able to understand and manage those feelings, so that generally you're able to:
- feel confident in yourself
- build and maintain positive relationships
- have a sense of purpose
- live and work productively
- cope with the normal stresses of day-to-day life
- manage when things change
Specific support for families with disabled children
- Contact - for families with disabled children
- Contact's Listening Ear service - hour-long one-one telephone appointments with a family support adviser.
Local Support
Bexley offers a variety of services to support adult mental health in Bexley including:
- Bexley Locality Adult Mental Health Team
- Bexley ADAPT Team
- Bexley Home Treatment Team (Secondary Care)
- Bexley Day Treatment Team (Secondary Care)
- Bexley Locality Mental Health Service (aged 18+) 0203 668 9490
More information about theses services can be found on the Local Offer.
Oxleas Mental Health Urgent Advice Line: 0800 330 8590 (24-hour service)
If it is an emergency you should go to the Accident and Emergency (A&E) department of your local hospital.
- Oxleas Services
- Adult Learning Disability Team - Health Services for aged 18+ with Learning Difficulties
Local organisations:
National organisations:
- Beat - eating disorders
- Calm - campaign against living miserably
- Good Thinking - an online service that helps Londoners look after their mental health and wellbeing
- Insight - supports young people, families and children who are affected by drug and alcohol use
- Mind - how to find therapy or counselling
- My Black Dog - peer-to-peer mental health support
- NHS - get help for yourself
- NHS Every Mind Matters - simple and practical ways to ease anxiety, manage stress, lift your mood and sleep better
- Nip in the bud - free short evidence-based films, fact sheets, blogs and podcasts to help parents/carers recognise potential mental health condition
- NSPCC - support for parents
- Papyrus - prevention of young suicide
- Rethink mental illness - carers hub
- Samaritans - call 116123 for free - 24hrs 365 days per year
- SANE - out-of-hours mental health line
- Shout - text messaging mental health service
- South London Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust - Eating disorders support
- Suicide Bereavement Service - The South East London Suicide Bereavement Service supports people who have lost someone to suicide
- The Mix - essential support for under-25s'
- Young Minds - support for young people and parents
- A-Z list - specific problems from ITV
Click here to be taken to the children's and young people's wellbeing page.