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Worried about your mental health? How to get treatment and support
Advice and information |1 min read |Last updated: 31/03/2025
This section explains how you can get help if you are worried about your mental health. It explains about options for treatment and support. Such as seeing your GP, talking therapy and self-help and support from charities. This section is for anyone worried about their mental health.
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Suicidal thoughts - How to cope
Advice and information |1 min read |Last updated: 31/03/2025
This section may help you if you are dealing with suicidal thoughts, feelings, or intentions. It has ideas you can try to help you. It explains how you can stay safe, and how you can get support.
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Social inclusion and mental illness - How can I become more connected?
Advice and information |1 min read |Last updated: 31/03/2025
Social inclusion is important for good mental health. This section explains what you can do to be more socially included and who can help you. This information is for adults affected by mental illness in England. It’s also for their carers, friends and relatives and anyone interested in this subject.
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Bipolar disorder
Advice and information |1 min read |Last updated: 01/04/2025
This section explains the symptoms of bipolar disorder, treatments and ways to manage the condition.
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Open letter to Jeremy Hunt, Chancellor of the Exchequer
1 min read |Last updated: 28/10/2022
We are facing a crisis in the nation’s mental health which the NHS alone cannot address on existing, let alone, reduced funding - no matter how dedicated and innovative its staff are. The Mental Health Policy Group, plus some of our wider sector partners, have written to the Chancellor of the Exchequer ahead of 17 November budget statement. We have...
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2003-2019 Resources and Reports
Campaigns and policy |1 min read |Last updated: 19/03/2025
2003 - 2019 Resources and Reports 2019 General election 2019 manifesto: We've waiting long enough - it's time for a fair mental health system Read our general election manifesto which outlines the three key issues we believe the next government must address for people severely affected by mental illness - these are creating a cross-government mental...
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Briefing: Our response to the government’s discussion paper on the upcoming 10-year Mental health and wellbeing plan
Campaigns and policy |1 min read |Last updated: 10/09/2024
In April 2022, the UK government published a discussion paper on a proposed 10 year plan for mental health, alongside a call for evidence with specific questions on the proposal. This document sets out a summary of our response. In General We welcome the cross-government approach to the upcoming Mental Health and Wellbeing plan. This approach recognises...
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Mental Health Policy Group: 2020 Comprehensive Spending Review
Campaigns and policy |1 min read |Last updated: 10/09/2024
Mental Health Policy Group: 2020 Comprehensive Spending Review The below submission to Comprehensive Spending Review sets out the priorities of Rethink Mental Illness and members of the Mental Health Policy Group. It covers several areas, notably capital investment in mental health services and in the social care and community services people severely...
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The hidden toll of CAMHS waiting lists on young people’s mental health
Last updated: 20/11/2024
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The trouble with the stigma around mental illness
Campaigns and policy |1 min read |Last updated: 24/09/2024
The trouble with the stigma around mental illness Let’s be clear. The stigma around mental illness can destroy people’s lives and have deadly consequences. Stigma is a negative attitude someone holds about a person, or a group, for a particular reason. It comes from a lack of understanding, and people often fear what they don’t understand. 1 in 4 people...
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What other help can I get for PTSD?
Advice and information |1 min read |Last updated: 22/01/2025
What other help can I get for PTSD? If you need urgent help for your mental health, you can: Contact NHS 111 for urgent mental health support: You can call NHS 111 or visit the 111 website You will need to answer some questions. They will refer you to an appropriate service or tell you what to do next. For other options, go to our get help now page....
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Severe Mental illness and Covid 19: Service support and digital solutions
Campaigns and policy |1 min read |Last updated: 10/02/2025
Severe Mental illness & Covid 19: Service support and digital solutions Report published 17 June 2020 by Jonathan Moore. This briefing shares the insights that Rethink Mental Illness has gleaned on service support and digital solutions during the pandemic. Some of these insights are based on online research we have conducted with service users,...
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Building Community into the Integrated Care System
1 min read |Last updated: 13/12/2023
Building Community into the Integrated Care System Our experience of working in and supporting local systems tells us that it is more important than ever that Integrated Care Systems invest urgently in community mental health. The introduction of the Community Mental Health Framework in 2019 presented a once-in-a-generation opportunity for mental health...
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Local authorities and the Long Term Plan briefing - November 2020
Campaigns and policy |1 min read |Last updated: 20/06/2023
Local authorities and the NHS Long Term Plan Our mission at Rethink Mental Illness is to improve the lives of people severely affected by mental illness and their carers. We do this as an active member of the Association of Mental Health Providers, working with other organisations who provide similar support. 2021 has the potential to be a transformative...
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STP Guide second edition
1 min read |Last updated: 20/06/2023
Keep thinking differently Rethink Mental Illness’s second guide for STPs/ICSs to continue their journey of community mental health transformation. As you will know, transformation funding, designed to support stakeholders to realise the radical vision set out within the NHS Long Term Plan and Community Mental Health Framework entered the system from...
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Community Mental Health Framework research
1 min read |Last updated: 20/06/2023
Getting started: lessons from the first year of implementing the Community Mental Health Framework Rethink Mental Illness's new report explores key learning from the first full year of implementation of NHS England's Community Mental Health Framework. We believe that the creation of the Framework, and more recently the introduction of Integrated Care...
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Covid-19 and support in the community
Campaigns and policy |1 min read |Last updated: 10/02/2025
Severe Mental illness & Covid 19: Service support and digital solutions Report published 17 June 2020 by Jonathan Moore. This briefing shares the insights that Rethink Mental Illness has gleaned on service support and digital solutions during the pandemic. Some of these insights are based on online research we have conducted with service users,...
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Service User Perspectives: Evaluating Experiences at Rethink Mental Illness
Campaigns and policy |1 min read |Last updated: 01/11/2024
Service User Perspectives: Evaluating Experiences at Rethink Mental Illness Over the last year, Rethink Mental Illness has transformed the way that we engage with people we support. We launched our Service User Experience Survey in to get feedback on our services right across England to help ensure we are providing what people living with mental illness...
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Other resources for PTSD
Advice and information |1 min read |Last updated: 22/01/2025
Other resources for PTSD Further reading Armed forces healthcareThe NHS can help if you are in military service or a veteran.Read about armed forces healthcare. How to manage after a traumatic eventThe Royal College of Psychiatrists' website explains what a traumatic event is and how to cope.Learn more about traumatic events. Racially based traumaThe...
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