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Urgent Help
If you feel that you are in a crisis or you need help urgently, you can use the contact information here.
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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
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.
Click here to view the launch webinar.
Useful Contacts
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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).
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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).