Mikeysline You are not alone

Offering a confidential, non-judgemental peer support text-based service, operating 7 evenings a week

Are you experiencing anxiety, depression or any form of emotional distress? If you are, you are most certainly not alone. For many of us, the last few months and our experiences during the lockdown period, have taken a significant toll on our mental wellbeing. Added to that is the degree of uncertainty that remains as we attempt to get back to where we were before lockdown, if we are able.

Now is, therefore, the time, if you do need to talk to someone about how you are feeling, that you reach out for the support that you need.

Mikeysline offers a confidential, non-judgemental peer support text- based service, operating 7 evenings a week. If you are struggling with your mental wellbeing currently, please do contact us for some support. We were established out of tragedy to offer hope and support when people need someone to talk to and listen.

Mikeysline is a Highland based suicide prevention charity established in late 2015 following the suicide of two young male friends

within a week of each other, adding to the growing numbers of young people taking their lives in Highland. Feedback from the peers of the two young men at the time said that they felt that there was nowhere for them to go to talk about their feelings or to get support when they needed it. A text line was established based on feedback and research that showed that people were over 40% more likely to hang up a phone than complete a text and send it. Mikeysline text line was the first text-line based service in Scotland. Our text line continues to this day and has seen a significant increase in contacts during the lockdown period. We expect this to continue as we all try to adapt to the new ‘normal’ and we are there for you, should you need us.

In late 2017, we developed our services further by opening the Highland’s first out of hours crisis service, again operating 7 evenings a week. The Hive offers a drop-in for anyone feeling socially isolated and experiencing a mental health crisis. This service remains temporarily closed due to the nature of the 1:1 work, but instead we have been and continue at this time to operate a Facebook Messenger callback service – Mikeysline – You are not Alone. The contact details for both our text line and our Messenger/call back service can be found below.

Mikeysline is principally a suicide prevention charity, however, we support anyone at any level of emotional concern or distress. So if you are feeling worried, anxious, stressed, concerned or depressed, please do consider getting in touch with us and if your feelings are already at a stage where you have thought about self-harm or suicide, please do speak to someone as soon as you can. We are there for you, every evening of the week.

Please do find out more about the services that Mikeysline offers by following us:

www.mikeysline.co.uk

www.facebook.com/Mikeysline

www.twitter.com/Mikeysline1

www.instagram.com/mikeyslineandthehive