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NHS mental health teams - Community, crisis, and early intervention support
Advice and information |1 min read |Last updated: 02/12/2025
Mental health teams are part of the NHS. They support people living in the community who have complex or serious mental health problems. This section focusses on secondary mental health teams. What they can do to help you and how you can get referred to them. It also explains what to do if you have problems with your mental health team.
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Ethnic minorities and mental health
Advice and information |1 min read |Last updated: 11/12/2025
If you are from an ethnic minority background, you may face specific issues relating to your mental health. This page gives information on your options for support and treatment and to help resolve any specific issues.
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How can I manage my mental health over Christmas? Practical tips
Advice and information |1 min read |Last updated: 28/11/2025
This information is about managing your mental health over the Christmas period. It is for people who are 18 or over and affected by mental illness in England.
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Smoking and mental health: Understanding the link and finding support
Advice and information |1 min read |Last updated: 02/12/2025
This page gives information on smoking and mental health. It explains ways to help stop smoking. This information is for people who smoke and have mental health issues and their carers, relatives, and friends.
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Suicidal thoughts - How to support someone
Advice and information |1 min read |Last updated: 10/12/2025
This section looks at why someone might have suicidal thoughts, feelings, or intentions. It gives advice on how you can support them when they’re feeling this way. It also looks at support for you. This section is for those supporting someone who’s experiencing suicidal thoughts.
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Couples who care for an adult who lives with a mental illness - Relationship tips
Advice and information |1 min read |Last updated: 26/11/2025
Caring for a relative who lives with mental illness can be rewarding. But it can be challenging too. And if you are in a relationship, it can have an impact on you and your partner.
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Schizophrenia
Advice and information |1 min read |Last updated: 10/12/2025
This section covers what schizophrenia is, what the symptoms are and how you can get treatment.
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Mental capacity and mental illness - The Mental Capacity Act 2005
Advice and information |1 min read |Last updated: 02/12/2025
Mental capacity means you have ability to make your own decisions. If you lose mental capacity the Mental Capacity Act 2005 protects you and your rights. You may lose mental capacity because of your mental illness. This section explains mental capacity and how the Act works.
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Rethink Mental Illness responds to major conditions strategy interim report
1 min read |Last updated: 15/08/2023
The government has published an interim report laying the groundwork for its major conditions strategy. The major conditions strategy, announced earlier this year, will set out a plan for tackling poor health and early mortality across several conditions. including mental ill health. Responding to the interim report, Mark Winstanley, Chief Executive,...
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People living with severe mental illness at heightened risk of relapse or crisis during pandemic
1 min read |Last updated: 04/06/2020
Rethink Mental Illness says improved access to mental health services must be prioritised as the country continues to navigate out of lockdown in a new briefing published today which highlights the acute impact of the pandemic on people living with severe mental illness. A survey of over 1,400 people by the charity in April and May found that in the...
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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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Can mental health problems be prevented and cured?
1 min read |Last updated: 17/11/2025
Can mental health problems be prevented and cured? Most mental health problems do not have a cure, but many can be managed with the right treatment and support. In some cases, mental health problems can be prevented, or their impact reduced, by tackling causes and promoting overall wellbeing. Managing symptoms While a complete cure may not be possible...
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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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Mental health social care: supporting recovery, promoting independence, changing lives
Campaigns and policy |1 min read |Last updated: 20/06/2023
Mental health social care: supporting recovery, promoting independence, changing lives Read our new briefing, Mental health social care: supporting recovery, promoting independence, changing lives. With the Prime Minister’s promise in July 2019 to “fix social care, once and for all”, there is a new interest in social care, who uses it and what difference...
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Progress update June 2022
1 min read |Last updated: 20/06/2023
Becoming an anti-racist organisation: progress update June 2022 Peter Alleyne, Associate Director for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Race Equality, and Nisa Chisipochinyi, Head of Equity and Racial Justice, explain where we are in our mission to become an anti-racist organisation. Two years ago, international protest at the murder of George Floyd...
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Coalition calls for government strategy to tackle ‘causes rather than symptoms’ of deepening mental health crisis
1 min read |Last updated: 09/05/2025
Coalition of organisations representing people living with mental illness and other disabilities calls for strategy that identifies and tackles drivers of mental ill-health across education, health, welfare and more. The group warns against proposed benefit cuts, which they say could exacerbate the mental health crisis. Letter calls for...
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I need urgent help for my mental health
Advice and information |1 min read |Last updated: 07/11/2025
How can I get urgent help for my mental health? This page is here to help you if your mental health is really bad — and you need help fast. You are not alone, and there are services that are ready to listen and support you. If you are 18 or older and live in England, this is for you. You might need urgent help for your mental health for different...
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