How you can help yourself
TAKING STEPS TOWARDS POSITIVE CHANGE
NHS Lanarkshire Psychological Services aim to improve psychological wellbeing, and make a positive difference to people’s lives. But that doesn’t mean we ‘fix’ or ‘cure’ people.
Instead, it’s about helping you make changes in your own life. Much of what we do is about helping you to help yourself.
Of course, you don’t always need us in order to help yourself. On this page we’ll link you to other sources of useful mental-health advice and support – all of which we’d recommend.
Mind To Mind
SCOTLAND’S NEW WELLBEING WEBSITE
Mind to Mind is a new national website designed to help us all look after our mental wellbeing. Just like Lanarkshire Mind Matters, it will keep on developing and expanding, and we are proud to partner with it. Mind to Mind has launched with more than 30 videos from different people talking about how they’ve overcome different challenges, and sharing tips for how to cope with anxiety, panic, stress, poor sleep, low mood and grief. It also features a range of professionals sharing their own advice – including psychologist Dr Deborah Lee with some fantastic advice about how we can be kinder to ourselves.
Mind to Mind is part of NHS Inform – read on to find out more.
NHS Inform self-help
SCOTLAND’S SOURCE OF TRUSTED HEALTH INFORMATION ONLINE
NHS Inform is Scotland’s national health information service. It contains trusted, accurate and reliable health information – including a range of mental health resources. Visit the NHS Inform mental health pages for information, advice and self-help for difficulties including anxiety, depression, sleep problems, panic and much, much more.
Self-help in other languages
SUGGESTIONS TO TRY
Please note that Lanarkshire Mind Matters cannot guarantee the accuracy of information held on any sites to which we link.
Free online courses available to everyone
LEARN NEW SKILLS TO TACKLE COMMON MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS
Living Life to the Full provides a range of self-help courses online. The courses themselves are free, with a charge if you want the accompanying books – though some of these books are available for free in local libraries. The site gets more than 25 million visits a year, and has helped hundreds of thousands of people. Click the link below to find out more and sign up for a course.
How to make the most of winter
SEASONAL SKILLS AND TIPS
During winter 2025-2026 we introduced this new page of simple, practical steps to help boost your wellbeing. We’ll spring-clean it for next winter (if that makes sense) … but we also recognise that the advice is suitable for any time of year, including the legendary Scottish summer. Please feel free to take a look, no matter the season.
Covid-19 and other challenging times
SKILLS FOR COPING WHEN THINGS ARE TOUGH
During the Covid-19 pandemic we produced a page about psychological wellbeing which is still accessible: just click here to go straight to it.
Russ Harris’s Face Covid is one of the best coronavirus coping resources there was, and you’ll find links to both his video and booklet in this section.
The NHS Inform website has a whole coronavirus section, which is regularly updated. It has mental health information and much more.