SupportLine - 020 8554 9004, email
info@supportline.org.uk - Telephone helpline for children, young adults and adults. Provide emotional support on wide range of issues including support to anyone suffering from mental health. Also details of counsellors and agencies throughout the UK
Saneline: 0845 767 8000,
www.sane.org.uk - Helpline providing information and advice on mental health. Emotional and crisis support for people experiencing mental illness and for their families, carers friends. Database of sources of help and support
Rethink National Advice Line: 020 8974 6814 - Specialist advice to anyone who needs support or information on any mental health issue. (Rethink is the operating name of National Schizophrenia Fellowship)
Rethink Information Line: 0845 456 0455 - Can give details of a Rethink service in the area where you live
Threshold Women's Mental Health Infoline: 0808 808 6000, email
infoline@thresholdwomen.org.uk,
www.thresholdwomen.org.uk - National freephone telephone information service concerning women's mental health. Provide details of local and national services throughout UK, wide ranging information about mental health issues, a series of fact sheets written specifically for women on a wide range of different mental health issues, emotional support for women seeking information
MINDinfoline: 0845 766 1063, email
info@mind.org.uk,
www.mind.org.uk - Information service for users of mental health services, carers, professionals and the public. Information on types of mental distress, treatments, alternative therapies, mental health law, advocacy, where to get help, local Mind groups. Access to legal advice. Fact sheets and publications
Manic Depression Fellowship - National Office: 0845 634 0540 , email
mdf@mdf.org.uk,
www.mdf.org.uk - National user led organisation working to enable people with manic depression to take control of their lives. Telephone information on anything to do with the condition including medication. Network of self help groups for people with depression, their relatives and friends. Self management training programme. Employment advice
Mental Health Foundation: 020 7802 0300,
www.mentalhealth.org.uk - Publications and leaflets relating to mental health issues. Website includes information for sufferers/family/friends,including how to get help, how to complain if not getting adequate help you are entitled to, information on medication etc
Young Minds: 0800 018 2138, email
enquiries@youngminds.org.uk,
www.youngminds.org.uk - Helpline and support services for parents concerned about the mental health of a baby, child or young person. Publications
MACA (Mental After Care Association): 020 7061 3401, email
maca@maca.org.uk,
www.maca.org.uk - Provides services in the community and hospitals and prisons for people with mental health needs and their carers. Services include advocacy, assertive, outreach schemes, community support, employment schemes, helplines, information, respite for carers, social clubs, supported accommodation including 24 hour care
Schizophrenia Association of Great Britain: 01248 354048,
www.sagb.co.uk - Telephone information and advice for people affected by schizophrenia, their families and friends. General information, advice on nutrition and biochemical research. Signposting service. Free Information pack
National Phobics Society: 0870 7700 456, email
nationalphobic@btconnect.com,
www.phobics-society.org.uk Support and help with anxiety conditions and phobias including panic attacks, ocds, body dysmorphic disorder, social phobia. Information, factsheets, tapes, self help guides. Extra services for members include therapy services at reduced rates, helpline, member contact list, discounts on products, chatroom
BPD Info Line: 0870 00 56787, Helpline 0870 0053 273,
www.bpdworld.org - For information, advice, support relating to Borderline Personality Disorder
First Steps to Freedom: 01926 851608, email
first.steps@btconnect.com,
www.first-steps.org - Helpline provides support for carers of people with borderline personality disorder. Helpline for anyone experiencing general anxiety, phobias, panic attacks, obsessive compulsive disorder, tranquilliser withdrawal, eating disorders. Provides leaflets, relaxation tapes, videos, telephone self help groups, one to one telephone befriending and newsletters
HOPE - Help Overcome Panic Effects: 020 7729 9418, email
hope2central@hotmail.com,
www.healinghope.20megsfree.com - National helpline, Groups in Hackney, East London and surrounding areas. - Helpline for people who suffer from panic/anxiety attacks. Groups/individual appointments. Membership fee of £10 a year provides newsletter and members contact list
Jewish Association for the Mentally Ill (JAMI) 020 8458 2223,
www.mentalhealth-jami.org.uk - Helpline, advice and information for Jewish people with severe mental health problems, their families and carers
James Nayler Foundation: 01904 624993,
www.jnf.org.uk - Information and publications relating to Personality Disorders
UK Advocacy Network (UKAN) 0114 272 8171 - Advocacy projects which help those with mental health issues to speak up for themselves
Advocacy For You: 0871 210 4535,
www.advocacyforyou.co.uk - Support, advice and information to those suffering from a mental health problem, families and friends. Aim to assist by providing support on a personal and practical level. Website includes information on Mental Health Act 1983 and information on medications
Advocacy Resource Exchange: 020 8880 4545, email
arx@advocacyresource.net,
www.citizenadvocacy.org.uk - Ring for details of local advocates
Cause Helpline: 0845 603 0291 (Area served NORTHERN IRELAND), email
info@cause.org.uk,
www.cause.org.uk - Practical and emotional support for carers and families of those with serious mental illness
Community Advice and Listening Line (CALL) 0800 132737 (Area served WALES),
www.call.dial.pipex.com - Helpline providing advice, information and emotional support for anyone concerned about their own or another's mental health
NSF Scotland: 0131 557 8969 (Areas served SCOTLAND), email
info@nsfscot.org.uk,
www.nsfcot.org.uk - Telephone helpline information, advice and other support services for people affected by mental illness. Range of direct services
Scottish Association for Mental Health: 0141 568 7000 (Area served SCOTLAND), email
enquire@samh.org.uk,
www.samh.org.uk - Telephone information service on mental health issues for the public, carers and health professionals. Information on benefits and legal issues related to mental health. Residential projects, training and employment services and day care for people with mental health problems across Scotland
CarersLine: 0808 808 7777,
www.carersonline.org.uk - Information and advice on all aspects of caring
Battle Against Tranquillisers: 0117 966 3629,
www.bataid.org - Telephone support and other help for people who take benzodiazopine tranquillisers or sleeping pills to withdraw from them as comfortably as possible
Council for Involuntary Tranquilliser Addiction (CITA): 0151 932 0102,
www.liv.ac.uk/~csunit/community/cita.htm - Telephone service for people addicted to tranquillisers and for their families, partners, friends. Information and advice on tranquillisers, sleeping tablets, anti-depressants and other prescribed mind altering medication. Referral to legal advice. Range of leaflets. Self help groups in the Liverpool area
TASHA Foundation: 020 8560 6601,
www.tasha-foundation.org.uk - Provides one to one counselling to those coming off tranquillisers suffering from anxiety and stress. Helpline gives support to all those coming off tranquillisers
UKPG Medication Helpline: 020 7919 2999 - Information on medication
Seroxat:
www.seroxatusergroup.org.uk - A site set up by patients to provide support and information and to notify users who wish to withdraw about how to do so. Also provide a Doctor Pack which patients can take with them when visiting GP to discuss withdrawal and deal with issues such as aggression, sexual dysfunction, alternative health resources, litigation, frequently asked questions relating to side effects and withdrawal symptoms etc. Details of support groups (currently in Essex, Gloucestershire, Ireland and Kent)
Seroxat - Manchester Helpline number: 0161 282 9924
British Association for Behavioural & Cognitive Psychotherapies: 01254 875277, email
babcp@babcp.com,
www.babcp.com - Behavioural and cognitive therapy can be very successful in treating a wide range of mental health and emotional issues
Self Help Services ( Manchester area) 0161 226 5412
www.selfhelpservices.org.uk, email
info@selfhelpservices.org.uk - Run over thirty support groups for people with mental health problems or in need of emotional support
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