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How can I manage the emotional impact of colitis?

Living with colitis can affect how you feel emotionally, as well as physically. These resources provide information, practical strategies, and emotional support to help you understand the link between colitis and mental wellbeing, develop coping skills, and look after your emotional health.

CCUK offers guidance to help you understand the link between colitis and mental health, recognise when you’re struggling, and find practical support to look after their wellbeing.

CCI explores what self‑care really looks like when you’re living with colitis, offering practical, compassionate guidance for managing low energy, flares, and emotional wellbeing.

This Mind resource helps you understand, recognise, and manage anger that can arise when living with ongoing health challenges

Headspace offers guided meditations, sleep support, and practical mental‑health tools that can help people with colitis manage stress, improve sleep, and build steadier day‑to‑day coping.

Dario Mind is a science-based wellbeing programme that uses short, interactive activities to reduce stress and build emotional resilience.

Smiling Mind is a free, evidence‑based mental‑fitness app offering guided meditations, routines and mood‑tracking tools that can help you manage stress, build resilience and support day‑to‑day wellbeing.

Wysa is an AI‑guided mental wellbeing app that offers a private space to talk, plus a library of evidence‑based self‑care tools and optional text‑based coaching for deeper support.

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