Online tools
- Alcohol and Drug Helpline
- Are drugs a problem? Check your usage
- Assert Yourself: Improve your communication skills
- Atareira (support for families and friends of people with mental illness)
- Beyond Blue
- Calm
- Chinese Lifeline
- Depression Helpline (check out the Journal workbook)
- Do you have a positive relationship? Take a quiz
- Hello Sunday Morning
- Lifeline Aotearoa
- Like minds
- Mental Health Foundation
- MoodGYM: Cognitive behaviour therapy skills for depression
- NZ Aids Foundation
- Phobic Trust
- Problem Gambling Foundation
- Rainbow Youth
- Samaritans
- Smokefree NZ
- Start 2: Live life more creatively
- Stick with the pack
- Spirituality and Practice: A guide to movies, books and e-courses to help explore spirituality
- The Lowdown
- The Tuesday Program: A short online course designed to increase skills to thrive amid life's challenges
- Via Character: Identify your character strengths
- Wellington Community Law Centre
- Wellington Sexual Abuse HELP Foundation (24 hour rape and sexual abuse support)
- Youthline
Books
- Books on Prescription: Self-help books on spirituality, meditation and mindfulness
- Conversations in Prayer: View a collection of prayers by students and staff to assist in reflection and prayer [0.7 MB]
- Coping with grief: University of Otago Chaplaincy [1.2 MB]
- Medical Library: Self-help books to improve mental health
Apps
- Five ways to well-being: Improve well-being through everyday activities
- Headspace: Meditation made simple
- Map my Run: Track your workout
- Mindshift: Designed to help young people cope with anxiety
- Smiling Mind: Modern meditation - tool to increase sense of calm, clarity and contentment
Having suicidal thoughts?
Lots of people have suicidal thoughts and have worked through them. It can feel much worse if you're alone. You don't need to be. There are people who are willing, able and available to help you.
- Suicide Crisis Line 0508 TAUTOKO, (0800 828 865)
- Youthline 0800 376 633, FREE TXT 234.
Someone I know is thinking about suicide
Having suicidal thoughts yourself?
In an emergency
Call 111
Police, Ambulance and Fire Service
Mental Health Crisis
Community Assessment and Treatment team (CATT)
0800 745 477 or
494 9169 - 24/7
