Crisis Support
Richmond Borough Mind does not offer any crisis support services, however we try to provide with the information you will need in order to access that support as or when you need it. There are other providers in the borough that will be able to assist if you are currently experiencing a crisis.
If you are a Mental Health Carer and are looking for information on how to cope in a crisis please click here.
Definition of a Crisis
If you feel you can not cope on your own, and feel you at danger to yourself or others than you may need some crisis support.
The generic definition of a Crisis is: 'A time-limited period of psychological disequilibrium, precipitated by a sudden significant change in a person's life situation, or the eruption of volatile emotions attached to an individual's personal history, which results in demands for internal and external adjustment which for the time being are not possible for the individual to achieve alone'.
Crises Support Objectives:
Once you access a mental health provider who does offer crises support, the objectives of that interaction should be the following:
- The psychological resolution of the immediate crisis and restoration to at least the level of functioning that existed prior to the crisis.
- To assist those with repetitive and regular chronic patterns of non-coping, by incorporating and interrupting any such patterns in ways this would strengthen the person’s ability to cope.
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