Mental Health
Mental health is essential to everyone’s overall health and wellbeing. Find resources and learn more about caring for your self and others.
Mental health is essential to everyone’s overall health and wellbeing, and mental illnesses are common and treatable.
While 1 in 5 people will experience a mental illness during their lifetime, everyone faces challenges in life that can impact their mental health.
There are practical tools that everyone can use to improve their mental health and increase resiliency regardless of the situations they are dealing with.
It’s important to recognize your emotions and own your feelings, work to find the positive even when facing adversity or loss, reach out and try to connect with others, remove those people in your life who are bringing you down, and create healthy routines to take care of yourself.
There are ways that everyone can be supportive of friends, family, and co-workers who are struggling with life’s challenges or their mental health.
Living a healthy lifestyle and incorporating mental health tools to thrive may not be easy but can be achieved by gradually making small changes and building on those successes.
Recognizing your feelings, finding the routines that lift you up, removing toxic influences and connecting with others can all help you on your path to recovery as you develop your own mental health #tools2thrive.
Interested in learning more about self-care, mental health, access to TimelyCare, or other resources? Check the ones below and/or contact counseling@nctc.edu with any questions!
Mental Health Resources
Suicide and Crisis Center of North Texas
(214) 828-1000 (24 hour)
800-273-8255 (24 hour)
UNT Counseling & Human Development Center
If you are in crisis or your personal safety is at risk, please contact one of the resources listed below immediately (they are available 24/7), call 911, or visit your nearest Emergency Room.
Suicide/Crisis Prevention Lifelines
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline
1-800-273-8255
Crisis Text Line
Text HOME to 741741
Suicide & Crisis Center of North Texas
(214) 828-1000 or 1-800-273-8255
Denton County MHMR Crisis Hotline
1-800-762-0157
JED Foundation Crisis Line
1-800-273-TALK (8255)
JED Foundation Crisis Text Line
Text “START” to 741741
Relationship Violence Helplines
National Domestic Violence Hotline
1-800-799-SAFE (7233)
Denton County Friends of the Family Crisis Line
(940) 382-7273 or 1-800-572-4031
Abigail’s Arms (Cooke County Family Crisis Center)
(940) 665-CURE (2873)
Wise Hope Shelter & Crisis Center Hotline
(940) 626-4855
Sexual Assault Helplines
National Sexual Assault Telephone Hotline
1-800-656-HOPE (4673)
Denton County Friends of the Family Crisis Line
(940) 382-7273 or 1-800-572-4031
Dallas Area Rape Crisis Center Hotline
(972) 641-7273
Veteran Resources
Veterans Crisis Line
1-800-273-8255 and Press 1
Veterans Crisis Text Line
838255
Veterans Confidential Crisis Chat
VeteransCrisisLine.net
You may also call 911 or visit your nearest hospital emergency room.
Additional community resource information can be found on the NCTC Community Resource and Referral List.