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This section provides selective links to a range
of websites dealing with mental health issues. We have arranged
the links by category:
Telephone helpline numbers are shown
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@ease
http://www.rethink.org/at-ease/
Interactive, user-friendly mental health website for young
people who are under stress or worried about their thoughts
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BBC Online: Mental Health
www.bbc.co.uk/health/mental
Accessible, comprehensive information on a wide range
of mental health conditions, as well as resources for
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BBC Online: Suicide
www.bbc.co.uk/health/mental/suicide.shtml
Part of the BBC's mental health website, offering advice
if you are thinking about suicide, or if someone you know
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BBC News: Mental Health
www.bbc.co.uk/health/mental/mental_health.shtml
Background briefings (based on recent news items) covering
hot topics in mental health, including discrimination.
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Calmzone
www.thecalmzone.net
Home of the ‘Campaign Against Living Miserably on the Net’.
Aimed at raising awareness of depression among young men (especially in Manchester,
Merseyside, Cumbria and Bedfordshire). Gives info on the Calm campaign, plus games,
links and an e-zine.
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Disability Rights Commission
http://www.drc-gb.org/
Website of the independent body set up by the Government
to help secure civil rights for disabled people, and advise
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Department of Health
http://www.doh.gov.uk/
The Department of Health aims to improve the health and
well-being of people in England. This site gives you the
latest news and information about the Department and their
work, including access to publications, policy and guidance.
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emental-health.com
http://www.emental-health.com/
A major new mental health website with information,
news and discussions relevant to schizophrenia and related
psychoses, Alzheimer's disease and other dementias,
depression and bipolar disorder.
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FMH
http://www.fmhsussex.co.uk/
FMH – For Mental Health – is a site that aims to help young men under 25 to
‘take a look at what’s going on inside their heads’, and provide advice, support
and info on anything that’s troubling them.
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Hyperguide to the Mental Health Act
http://www.mha.inuk.com/
Provides a useful guide to the 1993 Act, covering all
aspects and implications and linking to other relevant
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King's Fund
http://www.kingsfund.org.uk/
An independent health charity whose goal is to support,
promote and improve the health at all levels. The Kings
Fund tackles problems, promotes mutual learning and disseminates
new ideas across the UK and internationally. Website details
the Fund's activities, ethics and objectives, and provides
information on its conference services, publications and
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MACA
http://www.maca.org.uk/
Leading UK charity active in the community, also working
in hospitals and forensic services. MACA offers support
to people with sever and enduring mental health needs
and their carers. Website details the work and range
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Mad Pride
http://www.ctono.freeserve.co.uk/
Mad Pride is committed to ending discrimination against
psychiatric patients, promoting survivor equality and
celebrating Mad culture. Website contains info on events
and campaigns, as well as links and discussion. |
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Mentality
http://www.mentality.org.uk/
National charity dedicated to the promotion of mental
health, offering policy support, training and consultancy,
as well as delivery of mental health promotion campaigns
and media advocacy. |
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http://www.mentalhealth.org.uk/
Leading UK charity providing research and community
projects to improve support for people with mental
health problems and people with learning disabilities.
Website provides info on specific mental health
problems, where to get help, treatments and your
rights, and includes a bulletin board on discrimination.
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Mental Health Concerns and Issues
www.btinternet.com/~symon.price/index.html
Website run by people who are mental health service users,
providing accessible and constructive information for
people under the care of the mental health system.
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Mental Health Media
http://www.mhmedia.com/
Mental Health Media uses all media to promote people's
voices in order to reduce the discrimination and prejudice
surrounding mental health and learning difficulties. They
produce communications materials, provide media skills
training, and help get the voices of people with mental
health problems into the media. They also run the annual
Mental Health Media Awards - nominations can be sent direct
from the website, which outlines their services and activities.
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| Mind |
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http://www.mind.org.uk/
Leading mental health charity in England and Wales,
working for a better life for everyone with experience
of mental distress. Very comprehensive website,
offering advice, information and background briefings
on a wide range of mental health issues and specific
mental health problems, as well as details of events
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National Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux
http://www.nacab.org.uk/
Coordinating body for the network of local Citizen's Advice
Bureaux (CAB), which offer free, confidential and impartial
advice on a limitless range of subjects, including debt,
benefits, housing, legal matters, employment, immigration
and consumer issues. Website includes the facility to
search for details of your local CAB (including local
websites).
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Netdoctor
http://www.netdoctor.co.uk/
The UK's independent health website, with news, advice
and forums for discussion on a range of health issues
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NHS Direct Online
http://www.nhsdirect.nhs.uk/
Website provided by the National Health Service, offering
comprehensive health information for England and Wales.
Covers mental health issues. NHS Direct also offers a
24-hour nurse-led telephone helpline, providing confidential
healthcare advice and information.
Telephone: 0845 46 47 (charged at local rates).
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PriMHE
http://www.primhe.org/
An integrated-care mental health charity dedicated and
committed to improving the delivery of primary care mental
health services to patients and improving the understanding
of the public. Website gives advice and information on
PriMHE's activities and resources. |
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Royal College of Psychiatrists
http://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/
Professional and educational body for psychiatrists in
the UK and Ireland. Website gives practical advice on
a range of mental health problems, and includes details
of Changing Minds, an anti-stigma and awareness raising
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The Samaritans
http://www.samaritans.org/
Registered charity based in the UK and Ireland providing
confidential emotional support to any person who is suicidal
or despairing. The Samaritans provide a confidential telephone
helpline, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Telephone:
08457 90 90 90 (charged at local rates). Their
website also includes a facility to get support by e-mail.
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http://www.sane.org.uk/
One of the UK's leading charities concerned with
improving the lives of everyone affected by mental
illness. Website gives practical advice on a range
of mental health problems and treatments. SANELINE
is a confidential telephone helpline offering practical
information, crisis care and emotional support to
anybody affected by mental health problems. Open
from 12 noon until 2am.
Telephone: 0845 767 8000 (charged at local rates). |
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http://www.seemescotland.org
'see me' works in Scotland and is funded by the
Scottish Executive as part of its national mental
health improvement programme. The campaign aims
to break down the attitudes, which lead to stigma
and discrimination associated with mental health
problems.
'see me' is an alliance of the following five
mental health organisations: Highland Users Group
(HUG), National Schizophrenia Fellowship (Scotland),
Penumbra, the Royal College of Psychiatrists (Scottish
Division) and the Scottish Association for Mental
Health.
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SIGN
http://www.signcharity.org.uk/
Sign, the National Society for Mental Health and Deafness,
promotes positive mental health by providing residential and
day services for deaf people. They are committed to helping
deaf people live independent and fulfilled lives.
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The Site
www.thesite.org/drugs
Website connecting young adults in the UK to the best
information, help and advice available, to help them make
informed decisions for themselves. Includes sections on
mental health, drugs, and alcohol. |
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Stigma.org
http://www.stigma.org/
Initiative of the Sir Robert Mond Memorial Trust, a mental
health charity working to promote better understanding
of stress, anxiety, and depression. Includes an on-line
book, Every Family in the Land, about the stigmatisation
of people with mental health problems. |
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http://www.united-response.co.uk/
A non-profit organisation dedicated to the provision
of choice for people with learning disabilities
and mental health problems. Website details their
mission and activities. |
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YoungMinds
http://www.youngminds.org.uk/
National charity committed to improving the mental health
of all children and young people. Website provides information
and advice for children and young people, parents and
professionals. YoungMinds run a telephone service giving
information and advice to anyone with concerns about the
mental health of a child or young person. Open Mondays
and Fridays, 10am - 1pm; Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays,
1pm - 4pm. Freephone 0800 0182
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Alcoholics Anonymous
http://www.alcoholics-anonymous.org.uk/
AA is a fellowship of recovering alcoholics who meet regularly
to help each other to stay sober. This site describes
the fellowship, tells you how to get in touch, and gives
basic on-line literature. |
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Centre for Recovery
www.recovery.org.uk/map.html
Accessible website with information and advice about drug
and alcohol abuse. Set up by staff and volunteers at the
Centre for Recovery, a street agency for people with problems
arising from their own or someone else's substance misuse.
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National Drugs Helpline
http://www.ndh.org.uk
Information and advice for anyone in the UK
concerned about drugs. Free, confidential telephone helpline
open 24 hours a day. Telephone:
0800 77 66 00. |
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First Steps to Freedom
http://www.firststeps.demon.co.uk/
Voluntary organisation offering help to those who suffer
from phobias, panic attacks, general anxiety, obsessive
compulsive disorders, and tranquilliser withdrawal. Website
offers comprehensive advice and info. |
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National Phobics Society
http://www.phobics-society.org.uk/
Largest anxiety disorders association in the UK, run by
sufferers and ex-sufferers and supported by a high-profile
medical advisory panel. Website gives all round advice
and info on anxiety disorders. The National Phobic Society
helpline is open Monday to Friday from 10.30am to 4pm.
Telephone: 0870 7700 456.
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Triumph Over Phobia (TOP U.K.)
http://www.triumphoverphobia.com/
TOP U.K. runs a national network of structured self-help groups for adults
with phobia and obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) where sufferers can
learn to beat their problem.
TOP U.K. groups are led by trained, lay
volunteers, most of whom have overcome a phobic problem. Information and
advice available Monday to Friday 9.30am - 4.00pm
Telephone 01225 330353.
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The Alzheimer's Society
http://www.alzheimers.org.uk/
The UK's leading care and research charity for people
with all forms of dementia and their carers. Website provides
comprehensive advice and information on all forms of dementia.
They also run a helpline, staffed by trained advisers,
giving advice and support from 8.30 am to 6.30 pm, Monday
to Friday. Telephone: 0845 300
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Association for Post Natal Illness
http://www.apni.org/
Registered charity offering support to mothers suffering
from post-natal illness. |
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Calm
Telephone helpline (no website) for young men who are
depressed or suicidal. Open every day, 5 pm to 3 am.
Freephone: 0800 585858.
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Depression Alliance
http://www.depressionalliance.org/
Charity offering help to people with depression, run by
sufferers themselves. Website contains practical information
about depression, as well as details of Depression Alliance
campaigns and local groups. |
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Manic Depression Fellowship
http://www.mdf.org.uk/
Charity working to enable people affected by manic depression
to take control of their lives. Website offers basic info
on manic depression (bipolar disorder), as well as details
of self-help groups. |
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NHS Online: Depression
cebmh.warne.ox.ac.uk/cebmh/elmh/depression
Part of the NHS website, offering a practical guide to
depression. NHS Direct also offers a 24-hour nurse-led
telephone helpline, providing confidential healthcare
advice and information. Telephone:
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Pendulum Resources
http://www.pendulum.org/
Comprehensive US-based website offering advice and info
about bipolar disorder / manic depression. |
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Postpartum Support International
www.chss.iup.edu/postpartum
US-based site with very comprehensive info on postnatal
illness, offering a social support network, information
centre & research guide. |
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Dissociation
http://www.dissociation.co.uk/
Site providing information on dissociation and Dissociative Identity
Disorder (DID). Covers background information, treatment, finding a therapist,
diagnostics and research.
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Sidran
http://www.sidran.org/
US charity working to support people who are suffering from injuries of traumatic
stress. Site includes articles on trauma and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
(including Dissociative Identity Disorder) plus an annotated catalogue of relevant
publications.
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Eating Disorders Association
http://www.edauk.com/
Leading charity providing information, help and support
across the UK for people whose lives are affected by eating
disorders. Website offers information and help on all
aspects of eating disorders. EDA also runs self-help and
support groups, and a telephone helpline service from
9 am to 6.30 pm, Mondays to Fridays. Telephone:
01603 621 414. They also run a Youthline service
for people under 18, from 4 pm to 6 pm, Mondays to Fridays.
Telephone 01603 765 050. |
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| Mind |
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campaign partner |
http://www.mind.org.uk/
Leading mental health charity in England and Wales,
working for a better life for everyone with experience
of mental distress. Very comprehensive website,
offering advice, information and background briefings
on a wide range of mental health issues and specific
mental health problems, as well as details of events
and campaigns.
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| SANE |
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campaign partner |
http://www.sane.org.uk/
One of the UK's leading charities concerned with
improving the lives of everyone affected by mental
illness. Website gives practical advice on a range
of mental health problems and treatments. SANELINE
is a confidential telephone helpline offering practical
information, crisis care and emotional support to
anybody affected by mental health problems. Open
from 12 noon until 2am.
Telephone: 0845 767 8000 (charged at local rates). |
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