Mental health and wellbeing
Looking after your mind
Artificial nutrition looks after the body. Nobody hands you anything for your mind. This is the part we care about most: the feelings, the loneliness and the hard days, for you and for the people around you.
Your mind and your feelings
Honest reading about the emotional side of life on artificial nutrition.
Mental health on artificial nutrition
Why it can hit so hard, the feelings people talk about most, and what helps.
Read Not checked by Daz yetIsolation and depression
How isolation builds up, how it can turn into depression, and ways to break the cycle.
Read Not checked by Daz yetNot being able to eat, and what it does to your mind
Food is more than fuel. Why losing it hurts, and why that hurt deserves to be taken seriously.
Read Not checked by Daz yetBreaking the stigma around feeding tubes and lines
Five things everyone can do to change how people on artificial nutrition are seen.
Read Not checked by Daz yetWhy self care matters
Taking care of you is not selfish. Small ways to build it into your day.
Read Not checked by Daz yetHow our emotions help us
Even the hard feelings have a job to do. Learning to notice and name them.
Read Not checked by Daz yetEight tips for talking about mental health
How to support someone who is struggling, what to say, and what to do in a crisis.
Read Not checked by Daz yetLiving with chronic pain
Gentle, everyday ways to cope with pain alongside the care your team gives you.
Read Not checked by Daz yetWhy community matters so much
Shared experience, practical tips and a louder voice together.
Read Not checked by Daz yetIf you are struggling right now
You do not have to wait until it gets worse. Please talk to someone today.
- SamaritansCall 116 123, free, any time
- ShoutText SHOUT to 85258
- NHS 111Call 111 and choose the mental health option
- Your nutrition teamFor anything about your feed, tube or line
- EmergencyCall 999