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- Worried about your mental health - How to get treatment and support - Easy read factsheet
- Anxiety disorders
- Bipolar disorder
- Borderline personality disorder (BPD)
- Depression
- Dissociation and dissociative identity disorder (DID)
- Eating disorders
- Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD)
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
- Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) multipage
- Premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD)
- Psychosis
- Schizoaffective disorder
- Schizophrenia
- Schizophrenia - The key facts
- 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 and your mental health
- Housing options - For adults who live with mental illness
- NHS mental health teams
- Paying for care - Do I have to pay for social care?
- Recovery and mental illness
- Social Care - Direct payments - Under the Care Act 2014
- Social care and support planning - Under the Care Act 2014
- Social care assessment - Under the Care Act 2014
- Staying well with bipolar
- Supported housing - For adults living with mental illness
- Talking therapies
- Worried about your mental health? How to get treatment and support
- Animals and your mental health - How they can support your wellbeing and recovery
- Antipsychotics and physical activity
- Cannabis and mental health
- Drugs, alcohol, and mental health
- Flu and COVID jabs for people with severe mental illness and their carers
- How can I improve my sleep?
- How can I manage my mental health over Christmas?
- Long COVID and mental health
- Menopause and mental health
- Money, benefits and mental health
- New parents, pregnancy, and mental health - Perinatal mental health
- Physical activity and mental health
- Severe mental illness and physical health checks
- Severe weather and mental health
- Smoking and mental health
- Social inclusion and mental illness - How can I become more connected
- Spirituality, religion and mental illness
- Type 2 diabetes and mental illness
- Community treatment orders (CTOs) - Made under the Mental Health Act 1983
- Discharge from the Mental Health Act
- Discrimination and mental health - The Equality Act 2010
- Mental capacity and mental illness - The Mental Capacity Act 2005
- Mental Health Act
- Nearest relative - Under the Mental Health Act
- 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 - Courts send you to hospital for a medical report
- 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
- Access to health records
- Advance statements and advance decisions - Planning your future care
- Advocacy for mental health - Making your voice heard
- Challenging cuts to mental health and social care services
- Clinical negligence
- Complaining about the NHS or social services
- Confidentiality
- Criminal convictions - How and when to tell others
- Driving and mental illness
- Legal advice - Getting help from a solicitor
- NHS treatment - Your rights
- Second opinions - About your mental health diagnosis or treatment
- 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 release information
- Prisoners - Suicidal thoughts - How to cope
- Prisoners and self-harm
- Prisons - How are they run and what can I do there?
- Couples who care for an adult who lives with a mental illness - Relationship tips
- Does mental illness run in families?
- 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
- Suicide - Coping with loss
- Supporting someone with a mental illness
- The Carers Charter
- Worried about someone's mental health?