This website was created by NHS Dorset in partnership with people with lived experience and local specialist organisations.
Please visit the NHS Dorset website for details on how to contact us.
Website feedback
If you would like to share your feedback on this website, please use our feedback form. Your comments will help us to create a website that supports Dorset’s neurodivergent community in the best possible way.
If you need urgent help
If you are struggling and need emotional or mental health support, these free services are available to help:
Phone
Call Dorset’s 24/7 mental health helpline on 0800 652 0190
Call the Samaritans any time on 116 123, however big or small the problem
Text
Text SHOUT to 85258 for 24/7 mental health support via text message
Visit
The Retreat and Community Front Rooms offer drop-in mental health support to anyone over the age of 18 in Dorset. Find more details and opening times on the Dorset HealthCare website.
The mental health section of the Public Health Dorset website has more details on mental health and wellbeing support for children, young people and adults.
