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Mental Health
Pain can affect your mood and mental health. Back and neck pain are particularly common. Here you will find resources to help you to manage your pain and your mood, which have been put together by patients like you, working with experts at Keele University, Mind and the NHS.
Please feel free to download or share the following information. All resources are evidence based and have been co-produced with patients and the public, clinical experts and academics.
These resources have been put together by patients like you, working with experts at Keele University, Mind and the NHS.
You can access these resources by scrolling down this page and selecting the resource you require from the buttons below.
Mental Health 'Bee Free' Animations
These animations explain the link between low mood and long term pain.
There is a full animation which can be downloaded and used with patients, and there are five shorter animations called ‘the Hive Five’ which cover the five key areas people can focus on to help themselves feel better.
Bee Free Local resources
This booklet includes details of ways to help you to support your mental health if you have long term pain. It also has links to nation and local support organisations and groups which you may find useful. This resource is local to Staffordshire.
Mental Health Websites
BeeFree is an initiative taken together with Keele University Impact Accelerator Unit, Mind and local NHS organisations.
Mental Health Children and Young People
What to do if you think you might have a mental health problem This animation has been produced with a young people, carer and family advisory group (supported by the McPin Foundation) for young people and parents to show how to get support for mental health problems. It has been developed following research from Keele University, the Universities of Manchester and Exeter and the mental health research charity The McPin Foundation, who looked at the impact that the COVID-19 pandemic had on young people's mental health.