Support
Need Help?
This website is open to health and social care professionals, researchers, policy makers and people with lived experience of advanced and progressive illness, as well as their family and care givers. If you have found this website whilst looking for resources to support your own mental health and wellbeing, living with the impacts of advanced illness, we recommend the following:
Please know that you are not alone, caring people who work for the organisations listed above are available to help and support you with whatever you are dealing with. Asking for help can be hard, but thousands of people in the UK each year make that courageous first step to get in touch, and begin asking for help.
Speak to your general practitioner about how you have been feeling. Let them know that your situation has been having an impact on how you feel. As well as listening and supporting you, they may be able to make referrals for specialist help.
Phone the Marie Curie Support Line. You can find out more here: Marie Curie Support Helpline, or simply call 0800 090 2309
Marie Curie also sign-post to a range of other support organisations that offer support with mental health and loneliness: Marie Curie Support Website
If you have recently lost someone and would like to explore help following bereavement, you could contact Cruse: www.cruse.org.uk or Cruse Scotland: www.crusescotland.org.uk
Sometimes, living with an advanced illness, or caring for someone with a progressive illness can be so hard that people have even considered ending their lives. The Samaritans are available 24 / 7: www.samaritans.org or call free on 116 123.