Date published: 9 May 2025
Mersey Care is supporting Mental Health Awareness Week (12–18 May 2025) by launching a new animation with a focus on the importance of community for mental health and wellbeing.
Being part of a caring, supportive community can make a real difference to how we feel. It can help us feel safer, more understood, and less alone, especially during difficult times.
Let’s use this week to:
- Reach out to someone
- Start a conversation
- Check in with neighbours, friends or colleagues
- Help build a community where everyone feels they belong
Together, we can create kinder, more connected communities.
Community pop ups during Mental Health Awareness Week
Mersey Care’s Talking Therapy teams are supporting the week by hosting pop up events across Liverpool to help support mental health and wellbeing in our community.
- Monday 12 May 2025 from 11am to 2pm - Liverpool Central Train Station
- Tuesday 13 May 2025 from 12 noon to 3pm - Ground Floor, John Lewis, Liverpool One
- Wednesday 14 May 2025 from 10am to 3pm - St George's Hall, St George's Place, L1 1JJ
- Thursday 15 May 2025 from 10am to 2pm - The Shed Baltic Creative Campus, 49 Jamaica Street, Liverpool, L1 0AH
- Friday 16 May 2025 from 11am to 2pm - LIPA, Mount Street, Liverpool, L1 9HF (This is event is for LIPA students)
These are a great way to:
- Learn more about mental wellbeing
- Access advice and support
- Connect with local services
Further support
Your Mersey Care Mental Health Support Teams have developed resources and workbooks for common mental health and emotional wellbeing difficulties for young people, families and education staff to use.
These workbooks may not be for you if you are already receiving support or have been experiencing mental health difficulties for some time.
If you are not sure what to do next, speak to someone you trust (parent, carer or teacher) your mental health support team in school or your GP.
Five ways 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
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.
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.
The following organisations can also help your health and wellbeing:
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.
Urgent mental health support