Mental Health Websites

• b-eat (Eating Disorders Association) - A leading UK charity for people with eating disorders and their families. Established for 18 years, formerly the 'Eating Disorders Association'.
• BBC Headroom - Life is full of ups and downs. So the BBC has created Headroom, a campaign to encourage you to look after your mental well-being.
• BBC Website, Mental Health Section - Visit for information and guidance on mental health conditions.
• The Bi-Polar Organisation - The Bi-Polar Organisation (formerly the Manic Depression Fellowship). Useful site with content for both individuals who suffer with the illness and their carers/friends/relatives.
• Carers UK - Carers UK is an organisation of carers fighting to have the true value of carers' contribution to society recognised. They actively campaign to ensure that carers get the practical, financial and emotional support they need.
• Care Services Improvement Partnership Southwest (CSIP) - Works in partnership with the Department of Health, the NHS, Government Office South West and local government to promote and support the innovation of local services.
• Choice and Medication - This website provides people with information about medications used in the mental health setting to help people make informed decisions about medication and treatments.
• Crisis Response - Information regarding the emergency support service for Dorset based at Forston Clinic, which is provided by the Primary Care Trust.
• Cruse Bereavement Care - Cruse Bereavement Care exists to promote the well-being of bereaved people and to enable anyone bereaved by death to understand their grief and cope with their loss.
• Department of Health - Government website with vast amounts of data regarding health matters, including mental health.
• Depression Alliance - Works to relieve and to prevent this treatable condition by providing information and support services to those who are affected by it.
• Dorset Advocacy - Advocacy service for people with learning disabilities which also provides an Independent Mental Capacity Advocacy service.
• Dorset County Council (Psychology, psychiatry or social work services) - Information about the mental health services provided by Dorset County Council.
• Dorset Primary Care Trust - Website of the Dorset Primary Care Trust (also listed as NHS Dorset). The site provides a wealth of information about service provision, organisational policy and structure, health advice and much more.
• East Dorset Mental Health Carers Forum - The Forum is a Charitable organisation representing the interests and concerns of carers of people suffering from severe mental illness living in East Dorset.
• Eating Disorders Association (b-eat) - A leading UK charity for people with eating disorders and their families. Established for 18 years, it now operates under the name
  'b-eat'.
• Enable Support Services - Self-directed social support service operating throughout Dorset for people with mental health needs. The service provides a flexible, person-centred, personalised support package and can be funded by direct-payments. Either contact your care-coordinator or Enable on 01305 831751 for more information.
• Help and Care - A registered charity working with older people, carers and communities for 22 years.
• Mental Health Alliance - A unique coalition of 75 organisations from across the mental health spectrum and beyond. Working together to advocate for fair implementation of the Mental Health Act in England and Wales.
• Mental Health Foundation - Founded in 1949, the Mental Health Foundation is a leading UK charity that provides information, carries out research, campaigns and works to improve services for anyone affected by mental health problems, whatever their age and wherever they live.
• MIND - Active campaigners for the rights of people affected by mental health problems.
• National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence - NICE is an independent organisation responsible for providing national guidance on promoting good health and preventing and treating ill health.
• NHS Direct (Mental Health Section) - Provides an exhaustive amount of information on an array of mental health conditions.
• NHS Dorset - Website of the Dorset Primary Care Trust (also listed as Dorset Primary Care Trust). The site provides a wealth of information about service provision, organisational policy and structure, health advice and much more.
• OCD-UK - OCD-UK is a leading national charity, independently working with and for people with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.
• OCD Action - The largest and longest serving UK national charity for people affected by OCD spectrum disorders.
• Patient Opinion - An independent website that offers service users and carers the opportunity to comment on the quality of service provision. All feedback is sent to the NHS in an effort to improve sevices.
• Raisin, North Dorset - The website is a community resource offering information on mental health issues, events and activities in the North Dorset areas of Blandford, Shaftesbury, Sherborne and surrounding villages.
• Rethink - Formerly the National Schizophrenic Fellowship, offers information, advice and support for people affected by mental health problems.
• Recovery Innovations - Their mission is to create opportunities and environments that empower people to recover, to succeed in accomplishing their goals, and to reconnect to themselves, others, and give meaning and purpose in their lives.
• Royal College of Psychiatrists - Visit to read about current thinking in the treatment and best practice of mental illness.
• Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health - Working to improve the quality of life for people with mental health problems by influencing policy and practice in mental health and related services.
• Samaritans - The Samaritans provide confidential non-judgemental emotional support, 24 hours a day (UK, 08457 90 90 90 - ROI, 1850 60 90 90) for people who are experiencing feelings of distress or despair, including those which could lead to suicide.
• SANE - SANE was established in 1986 to improve the quality of life for people affected by mental illness. SANE also carries out research into severe mental illness as well as providing support and information through SANEline (0845 767 8000) and SANEmail.
• Social Perspectives Network - The Social Perspectives Network is a unique coalition of service users/survivors, carers, policy makers, academics, students, and practitioners interested in how social factors both contribute to people becoming distressed, and play a crucial part in promoting people's recovery.
• Time To Change - A national campaign aimed at ending mental health discrimination.
• TOP UK (Triumph Over Phobia) - A UK registered charity which aims to help sufferers of phobias, obsessive compulsive disorder and other related anxiety to overcome their fears and become ex-sufferers.
• Voice Collective - Offers information, advice and peer support for young people (aged 12-18) who hear, see or sense things that others do not.
• WAND Mental Health - The website of the WAND Mental Health Helpline, based in Barnstaple. It has been helping people in Devon with mental health issues, their carers, family & friends since 1999.
• Where's Your Head At? - Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services - CAMHS - An excellent resource for young children, teenagers, parents, carers and mental health professionals.
• YoungMinds - A national charity committed to improving the mental health of all children and young people under 25.

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