Tips for promoting positive mental health

Below are some tips for helping someone with their mental health.

Those who are helping should try and know what services are available locally. The signs of possible mental ill health and what to do if someone has mental ill health.

1. Who is out there to help?
Make sure that you know about local and national projects to help people have positive mental health. Check out the websites and resources make a note of things that you find helpful.

2. Warning Signs
Think about how the people you support might communicate these changes and what you can look out for.

3. Time to Talk
Try and offer the family time to talk as well as the person. It is important to build on the relationships that the person already has and make sure that they are loving and positive. It may be that external factors are causing some of the individual’s distress.

4. Accessible Information
Ensure the person is getting information about and understanding issues related to their disability and mental ill health. This may be about the physical, emotional and behavioural changes they face and what will be expected of them. Make sure you include questions the person may have that are specific to themselves and their culture.

5. Keep Positive
Remember that recovery is an important part of mental health. An individual and their family may feel very negatively about the possibility of being well again but they should be encouraged to look towards recovery from mental ill health as an achievable goal, with support.

6. Acknowledgement
Recognise that people have worries around changes and loss. Make time to explore this with them and enable them to identify their concerns, resolve them or move on.

7. React
If you see a change in a person’s behaviour tell someone, talk about it. Do not suppose that someone more senior or someone in a different part of the person’s life will do something.

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