Combat Stress

Combat Stress is a mental health charity that provides support for veterans of the UK armed forces, focusing on complex mental health issues resulting from service.

• From: Office for Veterans' Affairs
• Published: 12 September 2024

• Health and Social Care: Mental Health
• Families and children: Support for spouses and families
• England: North East and Yorkshire, North West, Midlands, East of England, London, South West, South East
• Northern Ireland: North (Coleraine Area), South (Portadown Area), East (Holywood Area), West (Enniskillen Area)
• Scotland: The Southern Uplands, The Central Lowlands, Grampian Mountains, Northern Highlands, Hebrides and the Northern Isles
• Wales: Mid and West Wales, North Wales, South Wales Central, South Wales East, South Wales West

Combat Stress provides intensive mental health treatment service to veterans of the UK armed forces, including the Merchant Navy, and reservists not on operational tour.

Support is available in-person, either in the community or through outpatient appointments, as well as online. This in-person support is provided Monday to Friday, 9am to 4:30pm. Support staff are based in hubs across the UK.

Additionally, their free, 24-hour, seven-days-a-week helpline provides confidential mental health advice to all former military personnel, as well as families and carers. They can provide emotional support, a listening ear, self-referrals into their clinical services and signposting to other veteran organisations.

The aim of their work is to treat veterans’ symptoms and improve quality of life.

Self-referrals can be made by telephone and professional referrals can be made online.

Get in touch with Combat Stress

By phone

Phone: 0800 138 1619
Monday to Sunday, 24 hours

By email

Email: helpline@combatstress.org.uk

Online

Website: Combat Stress

Published 12 September 2024