A-Z Advice topic List
Don't know where to start? Our A-Z list of topics can help you find the page you are looking for.
Learn more about conditions
- Anxiety disorders
- Bipolar disorder
- Borderline personality disorder (BPD)
- Cannabis and mental health
- Depression
- Dissociation and dissociative identity disorder (DID)
- Drugs, alcohol and mental health
- Eating disorders
- Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD)
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
- Psychosis
- Schizoaffective disorder
- Schizophrenia
Learn more about symptoms
- Feeling sad
- Hallucinating
- Hearing voices
- Low self-esteem
- Mood swings
- Negative thinking
- Persuading someone to speak to their GP
- Racing thoughts
- Self-harm
- Suicidal thoughts - How to cope
- Weight loss
- Worried about someone's mental health?
- Worried about your mental health? How to get treatment and support
Medications
Treatment and support
- 100 Ways to Support Recovery
- Care home fees - who pays? Under the Care Act 2014
- Care Programme Approach (CPA)
- Complementary and alternative treatments for mental health
- Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)
- Empowering people - coaching for mental health recovery
- Going into hospital for mental health treatment
- GPs - What to expect from your doctor
- Housing options
- NHS Mental Health Teams (MHTs)
- Recovery and mental illness
- Social care - Charging for non-residential services under the Care Act 2014
- Social Care - Direct payments
- Social Care Assessment Under the Care Act 2014
- Social Care Care and support planning
- Staying well with bipolar
- Supported Housing
- Talking therapies
Information on wellbeing, physical health, BAME & LGBT+ and studying
- Black Asian and Minority Ethnic mental health
- Flu vaccination and severe mental illness
- How can I improve my sleep?
- LGBTplus mental health
- Long COVID and mental health
- Managing type 2 diabetes
- Physical activity and mental health
- Severe mental illness and physical health checks
- Smoking and mental health
- Spirituality, religion and mental illness
- Stress - How to cope
- Studying and mental illness
- Teeth, eyes and feet
- What's reasonable at work? A guide to rights at work for people living with mental illness
Mental Health Laws
- Community treatment orders (CTOs) - Made under the Mental Health Act 1983
- Discharge from the Mental Health Act
- Discrimination and mental health
- Mental capacity and mental illness
- Mental Health Act
- Nearest Relative - Under the Mental Health Act 1983
- Section 117 aftercare - Under the Mental Health Act 1983
- Section 135 of the Mental Health Act - Police taking you to a place of safety from a private place
- Section 136 of the Mental Health Act - Emergency police powers to take you from a public place to a place of safety
- Section 35 of the Mental Health Act
- Section 36 of the Mental Health Act - When the Crown Court sends you to hospital for treatment
- Section 37 41 of the Mental Health Act - Hospital orders with a restriction
- Section 37 of the Mental Health Act - Hospital orders
- Section 38 of the Mental Health Act - Interim hospital orders by the criminal courts
- Section 47 of the Mental Health Act - Transfer of a sentenced prisoner to hospital
- Section 48 49 of the Mental Health Act - Transfer of an unsentenced prisoner to hospital
- Your Rights When Detained Under the Mental Health Act – Downloadable Guides
Rights and restrictions
- Access to health records
- Advocacy for mental health
- Challenging cuts to mental health services
- Clinical negligence
- Complaining about the NHS or social services
- Confidentiality of your information about your mental health
- Criminal convictions
- Criminal record checks
- Driving and mental illness
- Legal advice - Getting help from a solicitor
- NHS Treatment - your rights
- Planning for your care - Advance statements and advance decisions
- Second opinions - About your mental health diagnosis or treatment
- Work and mental illness
Police, courts and prison
- Appropriate adult at the police station
- Complaints about criminal courts
- Complaints about prison
- Complaints about the police
- Complaints about the Probation Service
- Criminal courts and mental health
- Mental health care in prison
- Police stations - What happens if I'm arrested?
- Prison - Going in
- Prison - Planning for release
- Prisoners and self-harm
- Prisoners and suicidal thoughts
- Prisons - How are they run and what can I do there?
Carers hub
- Carer's assessment - Under the Care Act 2014
- Confidentiality and Information Sharing - For Carers, Friends and Family
- Does mental illness run in families?
- Getting help for someone in a mental health crisis
- Going into hospital - for carers, friends and relatives
- How you can help guide
- Inquests
- Planning for the future - your relative's care and support
- Respite care - Breaks for carers
- Responding to unusual behaviour linked to mental illness
- Rethink Trust Corporation
- Suicidal thoughts - How to support someone
- Suicide - Coping with loss
- Supporting someone with a mental illness