Current Projects

Royston Adult Stress Centre

North Glasgow Youth Stress Centre

South West Glasgow Stress Centre

Dumbarton Rd Corridor Stress Centre

Lifelink

Keep Well Service

Stop Smoking Befriending Project

Getting Help

If you wish to attend for any of our services, you may contact one of our local projects to make a self referral. Or you can be referred by your GP, Health Practitioner, or any other organisation that has the concerns of you or your community at its heart.

To find out more details about each individual project, the range of services and which would best suit your needs please click on the links on the left.

About Stress?

The term stress is commonly used to describe a state in which we experience greater pressure than we believe we can comfortably cope with—physically, mentally or emotionally.

It may sound strange, but stress can be positive or negative. Positive stress, gives us energy, keeps us motivated and helps us meet the daily challenges of life. Negative stress, is when we feel under pressure, find it difficult to switch off mentally, feel exhausted all the time and find it difficult to engage in life.

Stressful feelings can be mild and very short lived, or they can feel strong and prolonged depending on the nature of the problem/s or circumstances. As a way of coping with how we feel, we may turn to comfort eating, alcohol, cigarettes and non prescribed drugs. Each of the above may provide us with momentary relief but long term, they can further damage our health. Prolonged stress can lead to more complex emotional, mental, physical and behavioural difficulties, e.g. depression, chronic anxiety, physical health problems, addictions, self harm and ultimately contemplating or attempting suicide

Stress Related Problems

These are some of the things that can cause Adults stress:

Relationship problems
Debt/lack of money
Unemployment
Loss of someone close
Alcohol or drug problems
Domestic abuse
Ill health in the family

These are a few of the things that can cause young people stress:

Relationship problems
Worrying about exams
Being bullied
Problems at home
Loss of someone close
Alcohol or drug problems
Abuse
Ill health in the family

It is important to recognize that young people do get stressed.

There are lots of pressures at home, work and school. You need not feel you are weak or alone if you are having difficulties – we all feel sometimes that we can’t cope.

Each person reacts to stress in a different way. Below is a list of some feelings/symptoms you may experience if you are stressed:

Anxiety/nervousness
Depression
Sleeplessness
Feeling tired most of the time
Easy to anger or feeling angry/irritable most of the time
Unable to concentrate
Feeling worried all the time
Regular headaches or stomach ache/sickness
Back ache or physical tension
Loss of appetite or comfort eating
Over working

These are just some of the symptoms of stress, it is not an exhaustive list, stress can manifest itself in many ways depending on the individual.

Whether you are an adult or a young person, if you feel you have reached crisis point and are self harming or are thinking about suicide please go to the LifeLink page on this website for their contact details or visit www.lifelink.org.uk

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