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Your mental wellbeing has a huge role to play in your academic performance and the extent to which you enjoy your learning. Fatigue, illness or injury, anxiety and low mood deeply affect your concentration, motivation and energy levels. A healthy mind helps you maintain enthusiasm for your studies, enhances your learning and lead a fulfilling life outside of university. Scroll below to see how Student Services can help you improve your mental health and wellbeing.

Live Well Learn Well Blog

The Mental Health and Wellbeing Service and Skills@Cumbria have teamed up to bring you the Live Well Learn Well at Cumbria blog exploring the relationship between mental wellbeing and successful study. Browse posts and subscribe to receive regular posts providing advice, stories, strategies and more to help you improve and protect your mental health whilst also supporting you to achieve your academic goals.

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Webinar: Managing Academic StressAcademic stress, Stressed student with head on their desk

Delivered by the Mental Health and Wellbeing Team and Skills@Cumbria, this 60 minute webinar will cover:

  • Identifying causes of academic stress
  • Challenging negative thoughts
  • Strategies to manage stress
  • Tips to stay on top of your studies

 The webinar is confidential, supportive and informal with the option to participate anonymously. 

To book, click the link below to view our Webinar programme and select a date.

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Webinar: Procrastination  

Delivered by the Mental Health and Wellbeing Team and Skills@Cumbria, the content of this 30 minute webinar will be:

  • What is procrastination?
  • Why do we procrastinate?
  • Tackling procrastination and managing your time

This is a confidential space and participation can be anonymous.

To book, visit our webinar page and select a date.

Wellbeing Collection

With support from the Mental Health and Wellbeing Team, Library Services have launched the Wellbeing Collection, a collection of specially-selected self-help books and ebooks to help you thrive at university. 

Some of the topics in the collection include managing stress, self-care, low mood and anxiety and specific mental health concerns.

The padlet below features some highlights from the Wellbeing Collection but you can also access the Wellbeing Collection Reading List for the full range of titles.

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Mental Health Practitioners

The Mental Health and Wellbeing Team are able to support any University of Cumbria student or apprentice with issues such as anxiety, home sickness, low mood, self-esteem, trauma and more. As a team of dedicated, qualified clinicians and case workers, they can provide confidential and compassionate support and work with you to improve your mental health. 

To make contact with the Mental Health and Wellbeing Service, you can complete the self-referral form or make an enquiry via the Student Enquiry Point (STEP).

Togetherall

In addition to one-to-one mental health support, you can also access Togetherall. Togetherall is an anonymous online community and resource hub to help guide your way to improved mental health and wellbeing, featuring:

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  • Peer support through our online community

  • Resources for self-management

  • Information and advice

  • Guided support programmes on a range of common issues

  • Monitored 24/7 by trained clinicians

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