Event date: 16 May 2025, 11:00am to 2:00pm
Event categories:
- Trust events
Mersey Care’s Talking Therapy teams are supporting this year’s World Mental Awareness week (Monday 12 to Sunday 18 May) by hosting events to help support mental health and wellbeing.
This theme for this year’s week will focus on Community.
Community Pop Ups
Monday 12 May 2025
Liverpool Central Train Station 11am to 2pm
Tuesday 13 May 2025
Ground Floor, John Lewis, Liverpool One 12 noon to 3pm
Thursday 15 May 2025
The Shed Baltic Creative Campus, 49 Jamaica Street, Liverpool L1 0AH 10am to 2pm
Friday 16 May 2025
LIPA, Mount Street, Liverpool, L1 9HF 11am to 2pm
This is event is for LIPA students
Five steps to Wellbeing
The five steps to wellbeing are a set of activities that have been proven to help boost our mental wellbeing if we practice them regularly, they are:
Keep learning
Starting a course when you’ve not studied for years isn’t easy – but the confidence and satisfaction is worth it and you’ll meet new people. Study something you think you’ll enjoy. It’ll help you to set goals and look forward which will help as part of your recovery plan.
Take notice
We all get bogged down in our own thoughts and feelings. Stop and take notice of what’s around you, enjoy the moment. Being aware of what’s around you can make you think more about what’s really important in your life – and make decisions based on what you want from life
Connect
Feeling close to, and valued by, other people is a fundamental human need and makes you function better. Talking really does help. Try taking five minutes to get in touch with someone. Talking instead of texting or emailing ask how they are and really listen when they tell you. If you’re out talk to someone new,
Give
It’s official - people who give to others rate themselves as happy. Become a volunteer, maybe at a charity shop, through your local Council for Voluntary services or with Mersey Care.
Be active
Can a walk to the shops or mowing the lawn really be that good for you? The researchers say yes, the chemicals it releases called endorphins actually make you feel better and more positive. If you meet someone while you’re out even better.
You can do it at work too, walk to someone’s desk instead of calling or emailing. It’s simple but it works.
Beat Loneliness
As the winter nights draw in many people can be gripped by stress, anxiety and loneliness.
Feeling lonely isn't in itself a mental health problem, but the two are strongly linked. Having a mental health problem increases your chance of feeling lonely, and feeling lonely can have a negative impact on your mental health.
To help people cope with loneliness we have produced a short animation, with handy tips and advice on how to maintain good mental health and wellbeing.
Self Care
Self care is about keeping healthy and active, as well as knowing how to take medicines, treat minor ailments and knowing how and where to seek help if you need it. Please watch our animation about self care and stress management.
Urgent Mental Health Support
A mental health crisis often means that you no longer feel able to cope or be in control of your situation. It often involves a sudden or continued worsening of your symptoms. You may feel great emotional distress or anxiety, feel you can't cope with day to day life, think about suicide or self harm, or experience hallucinations and hearing voices.
For urgent support ring NHS 111 and select option 2.
More resources to help you feel better and stay that way
The following organisations can also help your health and wellbeing:
MIND tips for staying well
Big White Wall
CALM: Campaign Against Living Miserably
Family Lives: support and advice
Mental Health Foundation
Mind
Rethink Mental Illness
Samaritans
Turning Point
Young Minds