Macmillan has partnered with Big Health to aim to improve the quality of life for people recently diagnosed with cancer in the UK, through instant access to mental health support, at no cost to them.

Our partnership enables customers to access safe and effective solutions for insomnia and anxiety

• Big Health apps – Macmillan Orders
• Calm - The #1 App for Meditation and Sleep - Helps improve sleep, reduce stress or anxiety and improve focus
• Mental Wellness App: Meditation & Sleep - Headspace - Helps reduce stress, improve sleep, manage anxiety, practice meditation
• paul mckenna sleep - Google Search - Listen to Paul McKenna’s sleep hypnosis to help lead you into a good nights sleep

Sometimes cancer can lead to a more isolated lifestyle, for a number of reasons, and this may be affecting your mental health.

For help with this, please follow the links below:

• Loneliness Guide | Marmalade Trust - Information on loneliness and how to manage it
• befriending.co.uk - Information on befriending, including an online directory of UK befriending services.
• meetup.com - Website that allows you to find face-to-face groups of people who share your interests or aspirations.
• ncvo.org.uk - Information about volunteering, including details of local centres.
• parkrun.org.uk - Organises free, weekly, 5km timed runs across the UK.
• doit.life/volunteer - Lists UK volunteering opportunities.

Moving your body is a great way of helping yourself to improve your mood, moving doesn’t have to mean doing an exercise, moving can be doing some house work, a walk and talk with a friend, or cleaning your car.

If you do want support to get more into exercise, please follow the below link:

• Short Videos - Move Against Cancer

Move Against cancer also offer the 5K Your Way programme, you can walk, jog, run or join for a coffee and connect with other people impacted by cancer.

Please see the link below to find your nearest group

• 5K Your Way - Move Against Cancer

Learning more about mental health can have huge benefits in knowing how to manage it, for help with learning about different types of mental health concerns, please search your specific concerns in Get Self Help, providing free CBT self help and therapy resources

• gg - Getselfhelp.co.uk

Self Harm

Self-harm can be difficult to talk about but it’s a common problem and you can beat it.

Find out what self-harm means and what to do if you think you’re affected by it by following the link below:

• Self-harm | Advice for young people | Get help | YoungMinds

• Home - Harmless ; Harmless - The centre of excellence for self-harm and suicide prevention for

  adults and children.