Welcome to CHIMP, the Claire House Interactive Mental Health Platform! This section of the Claire House website is just for you. Yes, YOU! The Siblings of Claire House. We know that young people like you have lots of different experiences in your family homes, often these are not the same as those that your friends have.
Some of these experiences are really good, happy ones and some are much more difficult and more serious. The aim of this online space is to let you know what we can do at Claire House to help you cope when life feels too hard and how you can get in touch with other siblings like you too.
We will post information on different topics all around looking after yourself, particularly looking after the health of your mind and brain – this is called ‘mental health’.
Everybody has mental health – your parents, your teachers, your friends, aunts, uncles, cousins, grandparents … the postman! When you feel happy, content and calm your mental health is in balance and positive; but everyone has times where they don’t feel calm and in control of their feelings (yes .. even the postman!). Sometimes, this lasts for a short time where you might feel a bit grumpy, or down in the dumps and just not yourself and then it passes, but other times those feelings sit for longer and are really hard to shift. This is where we could help.
So, take some time to find out a bit more about how you can help yourself and if you need a little bit of something more, who to come to in Claire House and what we can do.
