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Urgent Help

  • If you feel unable to keep yourself safe at this moment, you should seek help:

    • Go to your nearest Accident & Emergency (A&E) department

    • Dial 999 and ask them to send an ambulance to take you to A&E

    • Ask someone to call 999 and request you an ambulance or ask someone to take you to A&E

  • If you need urgent support but you don't want to go to A&E, you could:

    • You can call Samaritans 24 hours a day on freephone 116 123

    • Contact your GP surgery and ask for an emergency appointment

    • Contact your local crisis team

If you feel that you are in a crisis or you need help urgently, you can use the contact information here. 

Getting Non-Urgent Help

This booklet was written for young people experiencing dissociation.

It was written in 2025 by a team combining research knowledge, clinical expertise, and lived experience from the University of Birmingham (Emma Černis, Gwynnevere Suter, Eleanor Sinfield), Unreal (Gwendalyn Webb, Joe Perkins), and the McPin Foundation (Roya Kamvar). The content and tone were directed by an advisory group of young people with lived experience of dissociation and/or depersonalisation (Emma McShane, Lowenna, and Betty Ewens). Thank you to Jodie Howard for kindly granting permission to use her illustrations, and to the University of Birmingham for funding this work.

To get in touch, make suggestions for future versions, or to order copies for your service – please see ‘Tell us what YOU think’ at the very end of the booklet.

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Useful Contacts

  • You don’t have to be in crisis to access mental health support. You can call the Rethink advice and information line Monday to Friday, 10am-2pm for practical advice on:

    • Therapy and medication

    • Benefits, debt or money issues

    • Police, courts, prison

    • Your rights under the Mental Health Act.

    Call Rethink on 0300 5000 927 (calls charged at your local rate).

  • Mind have an information line that you can call to get answers to questions about:

    • Mental health

    • Where to access help

    • Medication and alternative treatments

    • Advocacy

    Call the Mind infoline on 0300 123 3393 or email info@mind.org.uk. (UK landline calls are charged at local rates. Charges from mobile phones will vary considerably).