Low Mood

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Looking back over the past 12 months, can you remember a time you used self-help materials to support your mental health? What did you use? 

"I started with emailing my college mental health council, which pointed me to kooth where i could reach out to mental health professionals and other people my age who were going through something similar. Once I felt ready to stop counselling, kooth was a good resource for me that i could turn back to whenever i started feeling bad again."

Why did you choose that mental health self-help material?

"It was, for me, the most discreet and didnt feel like as big of a commitment as therapy was and meant that i didnt have to tell anyone i know what i was going through. It also meant that if i was feeling better i didnt have to keep going back to it."

What were you hoping or expecting the self-help materials would help you with?

"For it to teach me how to deal with my anxiety and low mood, especially in moments when i felt it the most eg when i was by myself"

Anything else you wanna drop? Your main take on self-help materials or anything that feels important?

"There should be more awareness on how easily accessible and private they are"

What were you hoping or expecting the self-help materials would help you with?

"breaking the bad habits i have developed due to depression"

What caught your eye and got you to engage with the material?

"Suggested by friends"

What helped or didn’t help you actually use or stick with the material?- think what was going on for you at the time, how it was written, how it looks, how it made you feel.

"It was too long of a book to get through and there was no accountability so i failed"

Anything else you wanna drop? Your main take on self-help materials or anything that feels important?

"i don't think self help materials work because it's so easy to fail as there's nothing to hold you accountable that i can never stick with it long enough to make a difference".