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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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Medication - Choice and managing problems
Advice and information |1 min read |Last updated: 26/03/2025
Your doctor may offer you medication to help with mental health symptoms. This information explains your right to choose and how you can deal with problems.
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Our statement on the growing mortality gap faced by people severely affected by mental illness
1 min read |Last updated: 17/05/2023
We respond to new analysis from the Royal College of Psychiatrists that suggests more than 26,000 adults with severe mental illness die prematurely each year from preventable physical illnesses. Jeremy Bernhaut, Head of Policy and Influencing at Rethink Mental Illness, said:“It’s simply unacceptable that the mortality gap faced by people living with...
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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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Sheffield Mental Health Collaborative
1 min read |Last updated: 19/11/2024
Sheffield Mental Health Collaborative Rethink Sheffield has recently formed a Mental Health Collaborative. The aim of setting up this group was driven by the need to create opportunities for adults with lived experience to input into decision making across Sheffield’s mental health services. The collaborative has been in place since May 2023, in the...
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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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News and stories
1 min read |Last updated: 01/04/2025
News and stories For over fifty years we have been the voice of people severely affected by mental illness. Every year thousands of people see our media coverage, read our blogs and share the stories that matter to them. Take a look around our news and stories archive and be inspired today. Latest press releases
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Rethink Mental Illness STP Guide
1 min read |Last updated: 10/09/2024
Thinking differently: A ‘first steps’ guide for transforming community mental health Rethink Mental Illness’ guide is designed to support STPs/ICSs to take the first steps needed to transform community mental health care. The NHS Long Term Plan sets out a transformative vision for community-based support for people living with moderate to severe mental...
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Charity warns rising demand for support signals a looming mental health crisis, urges people to seek support if they’re struggling
1 min read |Last updated: 27/10/2020
Over 2.3 million people visited rethink.org for advice and information in the six months after Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced that the country would go into lockdown to prevent the spread of coronavirus. Demand for advice and information doubles compared to the six-month period that preceded the pandemic. Rethink Mental Illness has experienced...
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Progress update May 2021
1 min read |Last updated: 19/06/2024
Becoming an anti-racist organisation: progress update May 2021 Our mission is a better quality of life for everyone severely affected by mental illness. One result of the racial inequality in society is that people from Black, Asian, and minority ethnic backgrounds can experience different rates of mental illness than the majority white population....
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How can we make sure the new Mental Health Act is fit for purpose?
Last updated: 29/10/2024
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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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Our history
1 min read |Last updated: 29/01/2025
Our history Rethink Mental Illness was formed over 50 years ago by a group of inspiring people who were caring for a loved one living with schizophrenia.The experiences and knowledge of carers and people living with mental illness have been vital in helping our organisation improve the lives of thousands of people every year. Together, we’ve developed...
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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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Recognition for our work tackling racial inequality
1 min read |Last updated: 24/07/2023
Rethink Mental Illness has received formal recognition from a panel of independent judges for its work tackling racial inequality. The charity has been awarded bronze status by Race Equality Matters, the first stage in a series of awards recognising meaningful action to drive race equality within organisations. The judging panel, made up of people from...
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