Online resources available to all students and staff

All students can now access a mental skills training programme which teaches how to calm the mind and develop a positive mindset, enabling greater emotional resilience to deal more effectively with challenges of student life.

What is it?

The Sorted Mental Health app contains a safe and effective programme, Positive Mental Training, that is widely used within the NHS in Edinburgh, for increasing wellbeing and recovery from stress, worry and low mood.

It is a mind body programme derived from sports psychology, which takes you through a set of 12 physical and mental exercises.  This allows you to switch to a helpful state of mind and let go of the negative emotional triggers, which underpin distress, whilst simultaneously increasing your concentration and focus.

The techniques build a resilient mind set, encapsulated by successful Olympic athletes who work on the foundation of positive motivations and memories to enable goal focused success.

Benefits

• immediately helps calm the body and mind
• non-stigmatising sports background
• aids recovery from mental distress as well as developing all round mental wellbeing
• 12 years evidenced based development from within the NHS
• promotes deeper sleep and concentration
• different to mindfulness as it combines physical relaxation with positive outcome-focused visualisations
• supports equality - based on universal, transcultural psychological needs, audio and available to all

Get the App

Get the app!  Downloading the app is free.

1. visit your app store on your phone or tablet
2. search on 'sorted mental health' and look for the logo with a green background, and a white tulip and a heart as the flower

3. install the app free to your device. 

    

The University is also working in partnership with Togetherall (formerly Big White Wall).  

Togetherall is an online support network, available 24/7, guided by trained professionals.  It is free to all students and staff at the University.