Stress: things that may help over the coming weeks

Keeping up with the 5 ways to feel good

The 5 ways to wellbeing can help you feel better in a number of ways. It’s good to keep them in mind every day.

Courses and helpful tools

• include breathing exercises into your daily routine
• learn how to improve your mood and stress. The Living Life to the Full hub has courses and books
• make a list of things you're grateful for and what went well today. This will help you to keep things in perspective and not be too hard on yourself
• therapy, sometimes called IAPT or Healthy Minds, can be used as a way to help you feel more resilient. It can be completed for free in your own time, as part of a group or with help from someone over the phone:
  • visit the GM SilverCloud website to sign up for an online course
  • for group or phone options, complete the Pennine Care referral form

Recognise signs of stress in yourself

Knowing how you feel and behave at times of stress can help you spot that you’re getting stressed before things get too bad. If you see those feelings and behaviours starting to pop up, try some of the techniques on our things that can help straight away webpage.

Think about why you’re stressed

It might be helpful to try to work out why you’re stressed in the first place:

• think about what’s causing your stress. Sort them into issues with a practical solution, things that will get better with time and things you cannot do anything about. Take control by taking small steps towards the things you can improve
• if you think it might be related to something that’s recently happened to you visit our webpage

If stress continues to be a problem

If stress continues to affect your life for several weeks, you could talk to your GP about other options:

• see if you could receive support from Beacon Counselling
• find private options on the Counselling Directory website

Please note there may be a charge for counselling options not supplied by the NHS.