• UL Counselling Service (UL Éist)    061 202327
  • UL Chaplaincy (Teach Fáilte)  061 232180 / 3635
  • UL Medical Centre  062 232534
  • UL First Year Support Officer 061 232613
  • Emergency services (Gardai, Ambulance, Fire Service)   999  or  112

Smartphone apps can be a really useful way to practice breathing, meditation, CBT and well-being exercises to help with stress and anxiety.

Apps

  • Breathe2Relax
  • Calm
  • Headspace
  • Stop, Breathe and Think
  • The Mindfulness App
  • Virtual Hope Box
  • Woebot

CBT can be a useful way to challenge how we think and act to help with anxiety and low mood. Online programmes offer the opportunity to learn CBT skills.

NiteLine is a free support and listening service for students designed to complement existing mental health and counselling tools.

It can be accessed either by phone or through instant messaging, so that students gain support at a time and through the method that best suits them – and without any need to worry about a financial cost.

The service also operates out-of-hours, so that students can seek support when other services might be closed to them.

NiteLine is entirely peer-to-peer, run completely by students and for students. As such, volunteers can fully understand and empathise with the challenges that third-level students face.

All volunteers have been highly trained, following the Samaritans model, to ensure that they are able to cater to a wide range of issues.

Self-help materials can give us coping skills to help us through times of distress.

Information and exercise sheets

  • Accident, Emergency and Out of Hours Services - University Hospital Limerick, Dooradoyle   061 301111
  • St. John’s Hospital, Limerick   061 462222
  • Ennis Hospital   065 682446
  • Nenagh Hospital  067  31491
  • Shannon Doc 1850 212 999
  • Crisis Intervention Service Limerick   061 301111 Clare  065 6863208
  • North Tipperary  086 8306663

The Library is currently displaying a selection of titles from its Health and Wellness collection for ‘Mental Health’ week.

The collection has recently been reviewed in consultation with the subcommittee for mental health with recommendations from UL’s Counselling Service and Department of Psychology.

New titles now accessible as ebooks include: