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Connexions, Haverhill
To help young people to access information, advice, help and support
| Umbrella organisation: | Suffolk Youth and Connexions Service |
| Area serviced: | Haverhill and surrounding villages |
| Address: | Cangle Junction
Haverhill
Suffolk
CB9 9PF |
| Telephone: | 01440 765050 |
| Website: | www.connexionssuffolk.org.uk |
| Opening times: | Mon-Wed 10am-12pm and 1pm-3pm |
| Who is it for: | 13yrs-19yrs (up to 25 for those with additional needs) |
Access for people
with disabilities: | Yes |
| Childcare: | No |
| Charges: | Free |
| How to apply: | Telephone |
| Buses: | Yes bus stop near, bus number 13 |
| Train/Tube: | No |
| Parking: | Yes, limited |
| Sector: | Statutory |
| Last updated: | 05/10/2009 |
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 Advice/Information
These sessions provide an opportunity for people to access the service to get information, seek advice, and be provided with support on mental health issues. Individual appointments can be offered for specific interventions including support planning, advice and information.
Mental Distress
Mental Distress is a term used, both by some mental health practitioners and users of mental health services, to describe a range of symptoms and experiences of a person's internal life that are commonly held to be troubling, confusing or out of the ordinary; it can refer to a wide range of experiences, from relatively mild and transitory states to more chronic and severe conditions. Mental distress has a wider scope than the term 'mental illness'. Mental illness refers to a specific set of medically defined conditions. A person in mental distress may exhibit some of the symptoms described in psychiatry, such as: anxiety, confused emotions, hallucination, rage, depression and so on without actually being ‘ill’ in a medical sense. Life situations such as: bereavement, stress, lack of sleep, use of drugs or alcohol, assault, abuse or accident can induce mental distress.Some people use the terms mental distress and mental illness interchangably.
Mental Health
'Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity' (World Health Organisation). Mental health can be conceptualized as a state of well-being in which the individual realizes their own abilities, can cope with the normal stresses of life, can work productively and fruitfully, and is able to make a contribution to their community.
Mental Illness
Mental illness is a term that describes a broad range of mental and emotional conditions, which could be mild to moderate to severe in effect and which could be characterized by impairment of an individual's normal cognitive, emotional, or behavioral functioning, and caused by social, psychological, biochemical, genetic, or other factors, such as infection or head trauma. In most cases people make a full recovery (just as with physical illness) and return to a good quality of life.
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