Your health and wellbeing (parents, carers)

Being a parent is a full time job. If you are feeling low and stressed it can be even harder. 

Looking after your own physical and mental health and wellbeing is an important part of being a parent or carer.

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Physical health and wellbeing

Find information on leisure, health and wellbeing on Slough Borough Council website.

Trying to make a lifestyle change? Perhaps to give up smoking, lose weight or get more active? Check Solutions4health for apps to help you.

Use the Eatwell guide to help you get a balance of healthier and more sustainable food. It shows how much of what you eat should come from each food group. 

Check British Nutrition Foundation's Healthy sustainable diets.    

Mental health

Mental health includes our emotional, psychological, and social well-being. It affects how we think, feel, and act. It also helps determine how we handle stress, relate to others, and make choices.

Over the course of our life, if we experience mental health problems, our thinking, mood, and behaviour could be affected. 

One or more of the following feelings or behaviours can be an early warning sign of a problem:

  • eating or sleeping too much or too little
  • pulling away from people and usual activities
  • having low or no energy
  • feeling numb or like nothing matters
  • having unexplained aches and pains
  • feeling helpless or hopeless
  • smoking, drinking, or using drugs more than usual
  • feeling unusually confused, forgetful, on edge, angry, upset, worried, or scared
  • yelling or fighting with family and friends
  • experiencing severe mood swings that cause problems in relationships
  • having persistent thoughts and memories you can’t get out of your head
  • hearing voices or believing things that are not true
  • thinking of harming yourself or others
  • inability to perform daily tasks like taking care of your kids or getting to work.

If you or someone else needs urgent help for a mental health issue, phone Mental Health Crisis team on 0800 129 9999 (24/7, 365 days a year).

Help is also available from NHS 111 and Samaritans on 116 123.

Talking Therapies offers support for coping with challenges like depression, stress, anxiety or phobias.

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