Living with a disability or long -term health condition can feel really challenging and maybe overwhelming at times. If you need support, there are resources that can help you.
Self-help resources
Apps
- Flaredown App – automatically tracks the weather and local climate. You can track your medications, symptoms, mental health, activity and food.
Books
There are lots of great books in the University library, especially in the wellbeing collection. Here are three helpful examples:
- ‘Chronic Pain: Active pain management that helps you get back to the life you love: How to retrain your nervous system, heal your body, and overcome chronic pain’– Timothy Parton
- ‘Living well with a long-term health condition: An evidence-based guide to managing your symptoms’ – Angeliki Bogosian
- ‘University and Chronic Illness: a survival guide’ – Pippa Stacey
Podcasts
- Access All: Disability News and Mental Health – a weekly podcast about mental health, wellbeing and disabled people.
- Reframing Chronic Illness’ podcast – a self-help podcast hosted by chronic illness coach Alana Holloway.
Support from the University
The Disability Services team offer a range of support for disabled students, drop-in to see them, make an online appointment or email Disability Services at disability@leeds.ac.uk if you have any questions about the support available.