🌸 Easy Guide: Mental Health Help in Leeds
🤔 What Is Mental Health?
Mental health is about how we feel, think, and act. Sometimes we feel sad or worried. This can happen for many reasons:
- A stressful or scary event
- Feeling lonely or alone
- Problems with money or family
- Losing someone close to you
- Pregnancy or having a baby
But mental health problems can happen to anyone. You are not alone. It is OK to ask for help.
⚠️ Signs You May Need Help
You might need help if:
- You feel very sad or low
- You worry a lot
- You can’t sleep well
- You don’t want to eat
🌊 Where To Get Help
Many services in Leeds can help with stress, worry, sadness, and more.
🧠 NHS Mental Health Support
📅 1. Talk to Your GP or Visit a Website
You can speak to your GP. You can also visit:
🔗 MindWell Leeds Website with ideas and services to help you feel better.
🔗 MindMate (for young people and children)
💬 2. Talk to Someone
Talking can help you feel better. This is called “talking therapy.”
💼 Leeds Mental Wellbeing Service
- Free talking therapy
- For stress, low mood, anxiety
- Open to all in Leeds
☎️ 0113 843 4388
Leeds Mental Wellbeing Service
🕺 BAME Health & Wellbeing Hub
Support for Black, Asian, and minority ethnic communities.
- Phone check-ins
- Advice and help
- Group activities and workshops
☎️ 0113 378 4892
🔗 BAME Hub
🌐 Solace
Support for people who had to leave their country.
📍 Manor House, 1 Manor Street, Sheepscar, Leeds, LS7 1PZ
☎️ 0113 824 6796
🔗 Solace
👉 See more services: Help in Leeds
⚠️ If You Feel Very Upset or Unsafe
You can get help now if you feel very bad or unsafe.
🏠 Dial House @ Touchstone, A calm place with support. Refugees and asylum seekers are welcome.
- Open Mon 6pm–11pm (social)
- Tue & Thu 6pm–midnight (support)
- Appointment needed
☎️ 0113 249 4675 or text 07763 581 853
⚠️ If no one answers, please do leave a voicemail message and we will get back to you.
📧 [email protected] or
💑 Here for You (Crisis Cafe)
For people in a crisis. Open 6pm–midnight.
- Sat–Mon: Lincoln Green, Leeds, LS9 7JB
- Tue & Wed: Touchstone House, 2-4 Middleton Crescent, Leeds LS11 6JU
- Thu & Fri: Stocks Hill Hub, Chapel Ln, Armley, Leeds LS12 2DJ
☎️ Call 07760 173476
🤞 Connect Helpline
Free phone support if you feel:
- Anxious
- Lonely
- Angry
- Need help with money or housing
Open daily 6pm–2am. Also for teens (13–16).
☎️ 0808 800 1212
⛑️ In An Emergency
If someone is in danger or very hurt:
- 📢 Call 999 for an ambulance
- 🏥 Go to A&E (Emergency Room)
Hospitals in Leeds:
- St James’s Hospital (Adults, Beckett Street, Leeds LS9 7TF)
- Leeds General Infirmary (Adults & Children, Great George Street, Leeds LS1 3EX)
✨ Remember:
You are not alone. Help is here. Talking helps. Reach out – someone will listen. ❤️
