Mental Health

Welcome to our ZCT Mental Health Dropin page!

ZCT Mental Health Drop in Service has been running for over eight years and going from strength to strength. The purpose of the group is to enable those who are recovering from mental health issues, homelessness and those who are socially isolated to have a safe place where they can meet new people and someone they can talk to.

"I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me" Phllippians 4:13.

Our Core Values are:

  • Guide children to understand and spread God’s Word (Proverbs 2 v 1-5)
  • Obey the Word of God (John 14 v 23)
  • Develop the gifts given by God with a Christ-like attitude (1 Peter 4 v 10)

Gives information that may help if you have experienced abuse.

Types of Abuse

  • Physical abuse – including assault, hitting, slapping, pushing, misuse of medication, restraint or inappropriate physical sanctions.
  • Domestic violence – including psychological, physical, sexual, financial, emotional abuse; so called ‘honour’ based violence.
  • Sexual abuse – including rape, indecent exposure, sexual harassment, inappropriate looking or touching, sexual teasing or innuendo, sexual photography, subjection to pornography or witnessing sexual acts, indecent exposure and sexual assault or sexual acts to which the adult has not consented or was pressured into consenting.
  • Psychological abuse – including emotional abuse, threats of harm or abandonment, deprivation of contact, humiliation, blaming, controlling, intimidation, coercion, harassment, verbal abuse, cyber bullying, isolation or unreasonable and unjustified withdrawal of services or supportive networks.
  • Financial or material abuse – including theft, fraud, internet scamming, coercion in relation to an adult’s financial affairs or arrangements, including in connection with wills, property, inheritance or financial transactions, or the misuse or misappropriation of property, possessions or benefits.
  • Modern slavery – slavery, human trafficking, forced labour and domestic servitude. People are bought and sold for sexual exploitation, forced labour, street crime, cannabis cultivation, grooming and pimping, domestic servitude, forced marriage or even the sale of organs and human sacrifice. How to report Modern Slavery.
  • Discriminatory abuse – including forms of harassment, slurs or similar treatment; because of race, gender and gender identity, age, disability, sexual orientation or religion.
  • Organisational abuse – including neglect and poor care practice within an institution or specific care setting such as a hospital or care home, for example, or in relation to care provided in one’s own home. This may range from one off incidents to on-going ill-treatment. It can be through neglect or poor professional practice as a result of the structure, policies, processes and practices within an organisation.
  • Neglect and acts of omission – including ignoring medical, emotional or physical care needs, failure to provide access to appropriate health, care and support or educational services, the withholding of the necessities of life, such as medication, adequate nutrition and heating
  • Self-neglect – this covers a wide range of behaviour neglecting to care for one’s personal hygiene, health or surroundings and includes behaviour such as hoarding. It involves no other perpetrator.
  • Sexual Exploitation – this covers exploitative situations where a person receives 'something' as a result of them performing or having performing on them, sexual activities.

Gives information on where you can find support on addiction and dependency, which are often linked to mental health problems.

A guide explaining what mental health crisis services are available, how they can help and when to access them. Also provides guidance on how you can plan for a crisis.

I'm in crisis now and I need urgent help

If you don't feel you can keep yourself safe right now, seek immediate help:

  • Go to any Accident & Emergency (A&E) department.
  • Call 999 and ask for an ambulance to take you to A&E.
  • Ask someone else to call 999 for you or take you to A&E.
If you need urgent support but don't want to go to A&E, you could:
  • call Samaritans on freephone 116 123 – they're always open and are there to listen
  • contact NHS 111 (England) or NHS Direct 0845 46 47 (Wales)
  • contact your local crisis team (CRHT),
  • If you want to help someone else, see our page on how to help someone else seek help, including how to help someone else in an emergency.

Our Dropin offers peer support, our different types of peer support include:

  • Discussing what you have in common.Peer support brings together people with shared experiences, and these experiences can vary. For example, you might share a diagnosis of a particular mental health problem or similar personal interests. Or you may have shared experiences, such as hearing voices or having a shared cultural background.
  • what you do together. You might focus on talking and discussion, which could be about particular topics or difficulties, anything you feel like or a mixture, depending on how the support is run. Or you might do activities together such as walking, gardening, sport or being creative.
  • how you access the support. Our ZCT Dropin involves meeting in person but another option might be something you access online – for example social media networks or communities dedicated to online support. You might also use other ways of getting in touch, such as emails, phone calls or text messages.