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Calm Distress

A NEW ONLINE COURSE ALL ABOUT EMOTIONS, COPING AND WELLBEING

Welcome to Calm Distress, a new online course from NHS Lanarkshire Psychological Services.

All of us feel stress at times. This is entirely normal – and sometimes it can even be helpful! But it can also get on top of us, and we tip from stress into distress.

This is where Calm Distress comes in. Over five friendly sessions, it will help you open up to day-to-day stress, recognise your warning signs, and learn new ways to cope with distress and to keep it at bay.

We’ve designed the course for you to use in your own time, whenever you want. It is made up of five videos, each one lasting about 20 minutes – giving you lots of useful information in the time it takes to drink a cup of tea. There are booklets to go alongside the videos, which you can download to dip into further and keep track of your progress.

Calm Distress is a course designed to help you learn new coping skills over time. If you are reading this and looking for urgent, immediate help from services, please click on the Urgent Help button above.

How Calm Distress works

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Calm Before The Storm

Your introduction to Calm Distress. Watch this first, to learn about how the course works.

Relaxation and calming exercises

Calm Body, Calm Thoughts and Calm Behaviours

These three sessions explore stress, distress and how we can cope, focusing on the three key areas of what we feel, how we think, and what we do.

You can watch the sessions in any order you like, and as often as you like.

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Stay Calm

Watch this session last, to learn how to keep putting your new skills into practice.

Designed and produced by NHS Lanarkshire Psychologists, Calm Distress is rooted in an evidence-based approach called Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT). All you need to do is register using the link below: we’ll then be in touch by email, within a couple of days, with details of how to watch the sessions. Once you’ve registered, you can access Calm Distress as often as you want.

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