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Ways to help manage your emotions
Ways to help manage your emotions

There are lots of things you can do to help manage your emotions. Here are some handy tips and resources that may help if you are struggling in this area.

Emotional Regulation Skills
Emotional Regulation Skills

This information sheet provides some quick, practical strategies for managing distressing emotions in the moment.

Emotional Regulation: Managing Emotions
Emotional Regulation: Managing Emotions

Emotions are a big part of life for us all. In any day we can experience many different emotions that come with their highs and lows. Some of these are easy to deal with, while others are more intense and difficult to manage. It’s normal to struggle with your emotions at times, and everyone has this experience. However, if you have difficulties managing your emotions for a long period of time, it can lead to mental health problems.

Dealing with Distress
Dealing with Distress

This leaflet aims to suggest introductions to alternative, healthier ways of coping, but like with anything else in real life, it’s not easy or a quick fix – it has to be worked consistently hard at, and the only certainty is that it takes a lot of practice, practice, practice!

Keep an activity record 
Keep an activity record 

A table you can use to schedule your daily activities and plan your week.

Activities you can try at home 
Activities you can try at home 

Increasing your activity levels can help improve your mood.

Increase your positive activities  
Increase your positive activities  

An exercise in helping you find a balance in life and actively putting those positive activities back into your life.  

Tips on managing change in our lives
Tips on managing change in our lives

We all have to cope and manage with change in our lives for lots of reasons. Here are some tips and thoughts on navigating through a period of change.

Relaxation
Relaxation

If you feel tense a lot of the time, you can try learning some relaxation skills, as these should be helpful.

Computerised Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
Computerised Cognitive Behavioural Therapy

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) is a psychological therapy based on the relationships between what we think, what we do and how we feel. CBT teaches you how to recognise and tackle problems in the here and now, rather than in the past.  

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