You’re not alone these holidays
Mental distress can impact anyone in the whānau, and with increased stress and loneliness over the festive season there is often an increase in the number of people who need support.
If you, or somebody you know, needs help we want to ensure you receive the right support and we encourage you to call the right people to get the right help. Police should only be involved if there is an immediate threat to life.
If you, or somebody you know, are in immediate danger call 111 immediately.
Identifying if somebody needs support with their mental health:
There are many ways people may show signs that they are struggling with their mental health and there is often a combination of signs, including:
Feeling worried or anxious
Weight
changes
Sleep irregularities
Drug or alcohol abuse, or
changes in frequency of using drugs or
alcohol
Behavioural changes
Emotional
outbursts
Becoming quiet or withdrawn
Mania episodes
– feeling extremely high, e.g. spending large amounts
of
money abnormally
Neglect, disinterest, changes to
appearance
High risk behaviour
Bizarre or strange
behaviours not typical to the person
How to get
support:
If you, or somebody you know, is in mental distress, but it is not an immediate threat to life, it is best to connect with health services. You can contact their GP, call your local Mental Health Crisis team on one of the local numbers outlined below, or take them to your nearest hospital emergency department.
If you are worried about a friend or family member, or you are struggling, there are plenty of options on how you can get support, these include:
Reaching out to your friends, take them
out for a coffee and have a chat with them to see how you
can support them through a time of difficulty and let them
know you care
Talk to your GP, take a support
person with you if you feel you need to
Text or phone
1737, 24/7 for support from a trained counsellor
Check
out www.mentalhealth.org.nz
for some great advice and resources on
how to help your
mental health, or
Call one of the following National
helplines, to talk:
o Lifeline 0800 543 354 (0800
LIFELINE) or free text 4357 (HELP).
o Youthline 0800 376
633, free text 234 or email talk@youthline.co.nz
or
online chat.
o Samaritans 0800 726 666
o
Suicide Crisis Helpline 0508 828 865 (0508 TAUTOKO).
o
Healthline 0800 611 116
o Depression Helpline 0800 111
757 or free text 4202
o OutLine Aotearoa 0800 688 5463
(0800 OUTLINE) for sexuality or gender
specific
help
Helplines for Children and young people:
• thelowdown.co.nz – or
email team@thelowdown.co.nz
or free call or text
5626.
• What's Up – 0800
942 8787 (for 5–18-year-olds). Phone counselling
is
available every day of the week, 365 days of the
year, 11am–11pm. Online
chat is available from
11am–10:30pm 7 days a week, including all
public
holidays.
Help for whānau:
•
EDANZ – Eating Disorders NZ . Freephone 0800 233 269, or
email
info@ed.org.nz.
•
Parent Help – 0800 568 856 for parents/whānau seeking
support, advice
and practical strategies.
• Family
Services 211 Helpline – 0800 211 211 for help
finding
community-based health and social support
services in your area.
• Yellow Brick Road –
Supporting families towards mental wellbeing
Mental
health support for families - Yellow Brick
Road
Specialist help:
• Alcohol and Drug
Helpline – 0800 787 797 or online chat.
• Are You OK
– 0800 456 450 family violence helpline.
• Gambling
Helpline – 0800 654 655
• Speak to your midwife,
doctor, well-child Tamariki Ora nurse or Plunket
•
Plunket – 0800 933 922
• Anxiety NZ – 0800 269 4389
(0800 ANXIETY).
• Seniorline – 0800 725 463 A free
information service for older people.
• 0508MUSICHELPS
– The Wellbeing Service is a 24/7 online, on the
phone
and in-person counselling service fully funded by
the NZ Music Foundation and
provided free of charge to
those in the Kiwi music community who can't access
the
help they need due to hardship and other circumstances. Call
0508
MUSICHELPS.
• Shine – 0508 744 633
confidential domestic abuse helpline.
• Quit Line –
0800 778 778 smoking cessation help.
• Vagus Line –
0800 56 76 666 (Mon, Wed, Fri 12 noon – 2pm).
Promote
family harmony among Chinese, enhance parenting
skills, decrease conflict
among family members (couple,
parent-child, in-laws) and stop family
violence.
•
Women's Refuge Crisisline – 0800 733 843 (0800 REFUGE)
(for women
living with violence, or in fear, in their
relationship or family).
• Shakti Crisis Line – 0800
742 584 (for migrant or refugee women living
with
family violence).
• Safe to Talk – 0800 044 334 or
free text 4334 for help to do with
sexual harm.
Available 24/7 and staffed by trained
counsellors.
Mental Health Crisis team contact numbers, by District:
Northland
• Whangarei
(09) 430 4101 ext 3537
• Kaipara (09) 439 3330 ext
65401
• Mid-North 0800 643 647
• Far-North (09)
408 9187
• After Hours 0800 223
371
Auckland/Waitemata/Counties Manukau
•
North Shore (09) 486 8900
• Henderson (09) 822
8501
• Rodney (09) 427 0360
• Central Auckland
0800 800 717
• South Auckland (09) 261 3700
•
After hours 0800 775 222
• 0508 927 654 or 0508
WARMLINE (8pm to midnight, seven
nights).
Waikato
• Hamilton 0800 505
050
• Lakes 0800 166 167 ??
Bay of Plenty
• Tauranga 0800 800 508
• Whakatāne
0800 774 545
Eastern
• Gisborne 0800 243 500,
or after 10pm call (06) 869 0512
• Napier, Hastings
0800 112 334
Central
• New Plymouth 0508 292
467
• Whanganui 0800 653 358
• Mid Central 0800
653 357
• Hutt Valley 0800 745 477
• Capital and
Coast 0800 745 477
Wellington
• Wairarapa 0508
432 432
• 0800 200 207 (7pm–1am, Tuesday to
Sunday).
Tasman
• Nelson 0800 776 364
•
Marlborough 0800 948 497
• Golden Bay 0800 776
364
Canterbury
• Christchurch 0800 920
092
• Greymouth 0800 757 678
• Timaru 0800 277
997
• Canterbury/West Coast – Warmline 03 379 8415 /
0800 899 276 (1pm to
midnight, seven
nights)
Southern
• Dunedin, Milford Sound,
South to Stewart Island - 0800 467 846
Press 1 for
Southland
Press 2 for
Otago