51±¾É«

  • UL Counselling Service (UL Éist)    061 202327
  • UL Chaplaincy (Teach Fáilte)  061 232180 / 3635
  • UL Medical Centre  062 232534
  • UL First Year Support Officer 061 232613
  • Emergency services (Gardai, Ambulance, Fire Service)   999  or  112

Smartphone apps can be a really useful way to practice breathing, meditation, CBT and well-being exercises to help with stress and anxiety.

Apps

  • Breathe2Relax
  • Calm
  • Headspace
  • Stop, Breathe and Think
  • The Mindfulness App
  • Virtual Hope Box
  • Woebot

CBT can be a useful way to challenge how we think and act to help with anxiety and low mood. Online programmes offer the opportunity to learn CBT skills.

 is a free support and listening service for students designed to complement existing mental health and counselling tools.

It can be accessed either by phone or through instant messaging, so that students gain support at a time and through the method that best suits them – and without any need to worry about a financial cost.

The service also operates out-of-hours, so that students can seek support when other services might be closed to them.

is entirely peer-to-peer, run completely by students and for students. As such, volunteers can fully understand and empathise with the challenges that third-level students face.

All volunteers have been highly trained, following the Samaritans model, to ensure that they are able to cater to a wide range of issues.

Self-help materials can give us coping skills to help us through times of distress.

Information and exercise sheets

  • : Write a letter to your future self
  • : Mental health support and information
  • : Ireland’s student-led mental health movement
  • : Information on issues that can affect your mental health and well-being
  • : Ireland’s youth information website created by young people, for young people
  • Accident, Emergency and Out of Hours Services - University Hospital 51±¾É«, Dooradoyle   061 301111
  • St. John’s Hospital, 51±¾É«   061 462222
  • Ennis Hospital   065 682446
  • Nenagh Hospital  067  31491
  • Shannon Doc 1850 212 999
  • Crisis Intervention Service 51±¾É«   061 301111 Clare  065 6863208
  • North Tipperary  086 8306663

The Library is currently displaying a selection of titles from its Health and Wellness collection for ‘Mental Health’ week.

The collection has recently been reviewed in consultation with the subcommittee for mental health with recommendations from UL’s Counselling Service and Department of Psychology.

New titles now accessible as ebooks include:

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  • , 66 O’Connell Street, 51±¾É« City. Tel: 061-343000.
  • , Rosbrien, 51±¾É«. Tel: 061-412354. Email: info@adaptservices.ie 
  • , strength and hope for families and friends of problem drinkers. Tel: 01-8732699. Email: info@alanon.ie 
  • . Tel: 01-8420700 Email: gso@alcoholicsanonymous.ie 
  • , a national support helpline for issues relating to depression and bipolar disorder. Helpline 1800 80 48 48 open seven days a week from 10am to 10pm. 
  • . Helpline: 1890 200 444. Email: alex@bodywhys.ie 
  • , Innovation House, Roslevan Centre, Tulla Rd, Ennis. Tel: 087-3698315/086-0565373 
  • for people in Co. Clare. Tel: 065-682 8178. Email: info@clarecare.ie 
  • , 3rd Floor, 15 Lower Mallow Street, 51±¾É« City. Tel: 061-317688 Email: jraftery@csmt.ie 
  • , 3rd Floor, Riverpoint, Lower Mallow Street, 51±¾É«: 061-214310. 
  • , Redwood Place, 18 Davis Street, 51±¾É«. Tel: 061-314354. Email: info@goshh.ie 
  • , 33 Henry Street, 51±¾É«. Tel: 061-318813. Email: midwesternregion@grow.ie 
  • . 3rd Floor, Arthur’s Quay House, Arthur’s Quay, 51±¾É«. Tel: 061-974510. Email: limerick@jigsaw.ie 
  • , peer support for those with difficulty coping. 3 Sexton Street, 51±¾É« City. Tel: 061-446786. Email: info@limerickmentalhealth.ie Drop in: Thursdays 10am - 1pm. 
  • - Social Work Department. Tel: 061-485800 (limited service available for bereavement not linked to hospice attendance) 
  • , Re Nua, O’Connell Avenue, 51±¾É«. Tel: 1800 234115. For adults abused as children. 
  • , Pieta Mid-West, Ardaulin, Mungret, Co. 51±¾É«. Tel: 061-484444 Helpline: 1800 247 247 Email: mary@pieta.ie Specialist Service for people who have a history of self-harm or have suicidal ideation. 
  • , Phoenix House, Punch's Close, Rosbrien Road, 51±¾É«. Tel: 1800 311511. Email: info@rapecrisis.ie Counselling provided to female and male adult survivors of Rape, Child Sexual Abuse, Incest and Sexual Harassment 
  • Tel: 1890 577 577 
  • , 20 Barrington Street, 51±¾É«. Free-phone number: 116 123 Drop-in: 9:00am - 10:00pm. E-mail: jo@samaritans.org For 24 hour confidential text support text to 087-2609090.
  • , Supporting people affected by ill mental health. Email: info@shine.ie 
  • , Henry Street, 51±¾É«. Tel: 061-314111. Email: ger.odonovan@lssc.ie or counselling@lssc.ie Free confidential counselling service offered to individuals and families.