Depression Alliance<\/a><\/h3>\n \n\n- Email: information@depressionslliance.org<\/u><\/a><\/li>\n
- Phone: 0845 1232320 (for information pack)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Provides information and support people with depression and their carers, also lists details of local self-help groups.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n
\n \n \n Mind<\/a><\/h3>\n \n\n- Email: contact@mind.org.uk<\/u><\/a><\/li>\n
- Email: info@mind.org.uk<\/u><\/a><\/li>\n
- Info Line: 0300 123 3393 (Monday to Friday, 9am -5pm)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
National mental health charity, which offers an excellent range of materials on all aspects of depression and manic depression. It also lists details of local Mind Associations.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n
\n \n \n SANE<\/a><\/h3>\n \n\n- SANEline: 01845 7678000<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
SANE is one of the UK\u2019s leading charities concerned with improving the lives of everyone affected by mental illness. It has a helpline which offers support and information to callers throughout the UK. The site offers extensive literature on subjects including schizophrenia, depression and therapies.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n
\n \n \n FRANK<\/a><\/h3>\n \n\n- Helpline: 0800 776600<\/li>\n
- Text:8211<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Frank is the government\u2019s national drug awareness campaign. It targets young people, their parents and professionals working with them.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n
\n \n \n Samaritans<\/a><\/h3>\n \n\n- Email: jo@samaritans.org<\/a><\/li>\n
- Phone: 116 123<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Samaritans provides confidential non-judgemental emotion support, 24 hours a day for people who are experiencing feelings of distress or despair, including those which could lead to suicide.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n
\n \n \n CALM (Campaign against Living Miserably)<\/a><\/h3>\n \n\n- Phone: 0800 585858 (Saturday \u2013 Tuesday, 5pm \u2013 midnight)<\/li>\n
- Minicom: 0800 027 2982<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n \n \n
Cruse \u2013 Bereavement Care<\/a><\/h3>\n \n<\/u><\/p>\n\n- Email: helpline@cruse.org.uk<\/a><\/li>\n
- Phone: 0844 4779400<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n \n \n
Bipolar UK<\/a><\/h3>\n \n\n- Phone: 0207 7931 6480 (Monday-Friday, 9.30am \u2013 4.30pm)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n \n \n
Anxiety UK<\/a><\/h3>\n \n<\/u><\/p>\n\n- Phone: 0844 775774 (Monday \u2013 Friday 9.30am \u2013 5.30pm)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Work to relieve and support those living with anxiety disorders by providing information, support and understanding via an extensive range of services, including 1:1 therapy sessions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n
\n \n \n No Panic<\/a><\/h3>\n \n\n- Confidential helpline: 0800 138 8889<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
No panic is a charity whose aims are to aid the relief and rehabilitation of those suffering from panic attacks, phobias, obsessive compulsive disorders and other related anxiety disorders.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n
\n \n \n OCD Action<\/a><\/h3>\n \n\n- Helpline: 0845 3906232<\/li>\n
- Email: support@ocdaction.org.uk<\/u><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Charity for people of all ages with obsessive compulsive disorder. Provides information and support, promoting recovery from OCD and the related disorders.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n
\n \n \n Self Harm<\/a><\/h3>\n \nThis website offers information about self-harm, the cause and diagnosis, self-help strategies, living with self-harm and many other resources. It strongly advocates that there is \u2018No shame\u2019 in self-harming.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n
\n \n \n Beat (beating eating disorders)<\/a><\/h3>\n \n\n- Email: help@b-eat.co.uk<\/u><\/a><\/li>\n
- Phone: 0845 6341414 (Monday \u2013 Friday 10.30am \u2013 8.30pm, weekends 1pm \u2013 4.30pm, bank holidays 11.30am \u2013 2.30pm)<\/li>\n
- Youth line: 0845 6347650 (Monday \u2013 Friday 4.30pm \u2013 8.30pm), weekends and bank holidays as above.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Beat is the working name of eating disorders association. This website provides information on all aspects of eating disorders, including anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge eating disorders and other related disorders.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n
\n \n \n Rethink<\/a><\/h3>\n \n\n- Email: info@rethink.org<\/u><\/a><\/li>\n
- National Advice Service: 0300 5000 927 (Monday-Friday 10am \u2013 2pm)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n \n \n
Saneline<\/a><\/h3>\n \n\n- Phone: 0845 7678000<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
A national out-of-hours helpline which provides support and information to anyone coping with mental illness. Opening hours: 6pm \u2013 11pm every day, including Christmas day and all public holidays.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n
\n \n \n Hearing Voices Network<\/a><\/h3>\n \n<\/u><\/p>\n\n- Email: nhvn@hotmail.co.uk<\/u><\/a><\/li>\n
- Enquiries and information: 0114 2718120 (Monday \u2013 Friday, 10am \u2013 4pm)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Hearing Voices Network consists of 130 self-help groups in England and Scotland. These groups help voice-hearers through discussion of the experience of voice-hearing. HVN is also there to help carers and to support and advise voice-hearers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n
Apps for Wellbeing and Mental Health<\/h2>\n\n \n \n Mental Health Recovery Guide (Free to use)<\/a><\/h3>\n \nThere are 17 essential things you need to know to fast track your recovery from mental illness. The Mental Health Recovery Guide (MHRG) will tell you what they are.<\/p>\n
If you suffer from depression, schizophrenia or bipolar disorder, and if you are a mental health outpatient, or a newly discharged psychiatric in-patient at the UK\u2019s NHS or elsewhere in the world, MHRG will help you to get well and stay well.<\/p>\n
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\n \n \n Five Ways to Wellbeing (Free to use)<\/a><\/h3>\n \nThis app offers a practical way to help you feel good and function well in the world.<\/p>\n
Reflect on your wellbeing, set activities to help you improve your wellbeing and track your progress \u2013 all from the comfort of your phone; whenever it suits you!<\/p>\n
Based on substantial research, use the Five Ways to Connect, Take Notice, Be Active, Keep Learning and Give your way to improved wellbeing.<\/p>\n
The Five Ways to Wellbeing can help you with many different aspects of your life. There\u2019s no daily dose or required level of work. Just use the app at your own pace to suit your life \u2013 you can even write and set your own personal activities. It\u2019s wellbeing your way.<\/p>\n
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\n \n \n Stay Alive (Free to use)<\/a><\/h3>\n \nThis app is a pocket suicide prevention resource, packed full of useful information to help you stay safe. You can use it if you are having thoughts of suicide or if you are concerned about someone else who may be considering suicide.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n
\n \n \n WellMind (Free to use)<\/a><\/h3>\n \nWellmind is your free NHS mental health and wellbeing app designed to help you with stress, anxiety and depression the app includes advice, tips and tools to improve your mental health and boost your wellbeing.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n
\n \n \n Anxious Minds (Free to use)<\/a><\/h3>\n \nAnxious minds are a charity that was set up by sufferers of anxiety and depression, to provide free support to all suffers of anxiety and depression. No matter where you are, no one should suffer alone just because you cannot afford treatment or that you\u2019re on somebody\u2019s waiting list.<\/p>\n
Join our community and let\u2019s start fighting back together and change the way mental health is supported forever, Social Network, Blogging Platform and Resource Centre; with an aim to encouraging people to gain knowledge and to share experiences relating to mental and emotional health issues – symptoms, treatments and medications. The app also includes:<\/p>\n
\n- Online 24 hours support group<\/li>\n
- Online peer support sessions \/ or start your own<\/li>\n
- Online support groups \/ or start your own<\/li>\n
- Advice and tips<\/li>\n
- Videos<\/li>\n
- Website developed by sufferers<\/li>\n
- Blog written by sufferers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\u00a0<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\nHelp and advice for people in receipt of benefits<\/h2>\n
For more general advice and help, please contact:<\/p>\n
\n \n \n Buckinghamshire County Council<\/a><\/h3>\n \n\n- Phone: 01296 395000<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Calls to our 0845 numbers cost a 7p per minute service charge plus your telephone company\u2019s network access charge<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n
\n \n \n Citizen Advice Bureau<\/a><\/h3>\n \n
- \n
- Email: information@depressionslliance.org<\/u><\/a><\/li>\n
- Phone: 0845 1232320 (for information pack)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Provides information and support people with depression and their carers, also lists details of local self-help groups.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n
\n \n\nMind<\/a><\/h3>\n
\n- \n
- Email: contact@mind.org.uk<\/u><\/a><\/li>\n
- Email: info@mind.org.uk<\/u><\/a><\/li>\n
- Info Line: 0300 123 3393 (Monday to Friday, 9am -5pm)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
National mental health charity, which offers an excellent range of materials on all aspects of depression and manic depression. It also lists details of local Mind Associations.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n
\n \n\nSANE<\/a><\/h3>\n
\n- \n
- SANEline: 01845 7678000<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
SANE is one of the UK\u2019s leading charities concerned with improving the lives of everyone affected by mental illness. It has a helpline which offers support and information to callers throughout the UK. The site offers extensive literature on subjects including schizophrenia, depression and therapies.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n
\n \n\nFRANK<\/a><\/h3>\n
\n- \n
- Helpline: 0800 776600<\/li>\n
- Text:8211<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Frank is the government\u2019s national drug awareness campaign. It targets young people, their parents and professionals working with them.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n
\n \n\nSamaritans<\/a><\/h3>\n
\n- \n
- Email: jo@samaritans.org<\/a><\/li>\n
- Phone: 116 123<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Samaritans provides confidential non-judgemental emotion support, 24 hours a day for people who are experiencing feelings of distress or despair, including those which could lead to suicide.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n
\n \n\nCALM (Campaign against Living Miserably)<\/a><\/h3>\n
\n- \n
- Phone: 0800 585858 (Saturday \u2013 Tuesday, 5pm \u2013 midnight)<\/li>\n
- Minicom: 0800 027 2982<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n \n\n
Cruse \u2013 Bereavement Care<\/a><\/h3>\n
\n<\/u><\/p>\n- \n
- Email: helpline@cruse.org.uk<\/a><\/li>\n
- Phone: 0844 4779400<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n
\n \n\nBipolar UK<\/a><\/h3>\n
\n- \n
- Phone: 0207 7931 6480 (Monday-Friday, 9.30am \u2013 4.30pm)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n \n\n
Anxiety UK<\/a><\/h3>\n
\n<\/u><\/p>\n- \n
- Phone: 0844 775774 (Monday \u2013 Friday 9.30am \u2013 5.30pm)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Work to relieve and support those living with anxiety disorders by providing information, support and understanding via an extensive range of services, including 1:1 therapy sessions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n
\n \n\nNo Panic<\/a><\/h3>\n
\n- \n
- Confidential helpline: 0800 138 8889<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
No panic is a charity whose aims are to aid the relief and rehabilitation of those suffering from panic attacks, phobias, obsessive compulsive disorders and other related anxiety disorders.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n
\n \n\nOCD Action<\/a><\/h3>\n
\n- \n
- Helpline: 0845 3906232<\/li>\n
- Email: support@ocdaction.org.uk<\/u><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Charity for people of all ages with obsessive compulsive disorder. Provides information and support, promoting recovery from OCD and the related disorders.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n
\n \n\nSelf Harm<\/a><\/h3>\n
\nThis website offers information about self-harm, the cause and diagnosis, self-help strategies, living with self-harm and many other resources. It strongly advocates that there is \u2018No shame\u2019 in self-harming.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n
\n \n\nBeat (beating eating disorders)<\/a><\/h3>\n
\n- \n
- Email: help@b-eat.co.uk<\/u><\/a><\/li>\n
- Phone: 0845 6341414 (Monday \u2013 Friday 10.30am \u2013 8.30pm, weekends 1pm \u2013 4.30pm, bank holidays 11.30am \u2013 2.30pm)<\/li>\n
- Youth line: 0845 6347650 (Monday \u2013 Friday 4.30pm \u2013 8.30pm), weekends and bank holidays as above.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Beat is the working name of eating disorders association. This website provides information on all aspects of eating disorders, including anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge eating disorders and other related disorders.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n
\n \n\nRethink<\/a><\/h3>\n
\n- \n
- Email: info@rethink.org<\/u><\/a><\/li>\n
- National Advice Service: 0300 5000 927 (Monday-Friday 10am \u2013 2pm)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n
\n \n\nSaneline<\/a><\/h3>\n
\n- \n
- Phone: 0845 7678000<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
A national out-of-hours helpline which provides support and information to anyone coping with mental illness. Opening hours: 6pm \u2013 11pm every day, including Christmas day and all public holidays.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n
\n \n\nHearing Voices Network<\/a><\/h3>\n
\n<\/u><\/p>\n- \n
- Email: nhvn@hotmail.co.uk<\/u><\/a><\/li>\n
- Enquiries and information: 0114 2718120 (Monday \u2013 Friday, 10am \u2013 4pm)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Hearing Voices Network consists of 130 self-help groups in England and Scotland. These groups help voice-hearers through discussion of the experience of voice-hearing. HVN is also there to help carers and to support and advise voice-hearers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n
Apps for Wellbeing and Mental Health<\/h2>\n
\n \n\nMental Health Recovery Guide (Free to use)<\/a><\/h3>\n
\nThere are 17 essential things you need to know to fast track your recovery from mental illness. The Mental Health Recovery Guide (MHRG) will tell you what they are.<\/p>\n
If you suffer from depression, schizophrenia or bipolar disorder, and if you are a mental health outpatient, or a newly discharged psychiatric in-patient at the UK\u2019s NHS or elsewhere in the world, MHRG will help you to get well and stay well.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n \n\nFive Ways to Wellbeing (Free to use)<\/a><\/h3>\n
\nThis app offers a practical way to help you feel good and function well in the world.<\/p>\n
Reflect on your wellbeing, set activities to help you improve your wellbeing and track your progress \u2013 all from the comfort of your phone; whenever it suits you!<\/p>\n
Based on substantial research, use the Five Ways to Connect, Take Notice, Be Active, Keep Learning and Give your way to improved wellbeing.<\/p>\n
The Five Ways to Wellbeing can help you with many different aspects of your life. There\u2019s no daily dose or required level of work. Just use the app at your own pace to suit your life \u2013 you can even write and set your own personal activities. It\u2019s wellbeing your way.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n \n\nStay Alive (Free to use)<\/a><\/h3>\n
\nThis app is a pocket suicide prevention resource, packed full of useful information to help you stay safe. You can use it if you are having thoughts of suicide or if you are concerned about someone else who may be considering suicide.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n \n\nWellMind (Free to use)<\/a><\/h3>\n
\nWellmind is your free NHS mental health and wellbeing app designed to help you with stress, anxiety and depression the app includes advice, tips and tools to improve your mental health and boost your wellbeing.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n \n\nAnxious Minds (Free to use)<\/a><\/h3>\n
\nAnxious minds are a charity that was set up by sufferers of anxiety and depression, to provide free support to all suffers of anxiety and depression. No matter where you are, no one should suffer alone just because you cannot afford treatment or that you\u2019re on somebody\u2019s waiting list.<\/p>\n
Join our community and let\u2019s start fighting back together and change the way mental health is supported forever, Social Network, Blogging Platform and Resource Centre; with an aim to encouraging people to gain knowledge and to share experiences relating to mental and emotional health issues – symptoms, treatments and medications. The app also includes:<\/p>\n
- \n
- Online 24 hours support group<\/li>\n
- Online peer support sessions \/ or start your own<\/li>\n
- Online support groups \/ or start your own<\/li>\n
- Advice and tips<\/li>\n
- Videos<\/li>\n
- Website developed by sufferers<\/li>\n
- Blog written by sufferers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\u00a0
<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\nHelp and advice for people in receipt of benefits<\/h2>\n
For more general advice and help, please contact:<\/p>\n
\n \n\nBuckinghamshire County Council<\/a><\/h3>\n
\n- \n
- Phone: 01296 395000<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Calls to our 0845 numbers cost a 7p per minute service charge plus your telephone company\u2019s network access charge<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n
\n \n\nCitizen Advice Bureau<\/a><\/h3>\n
\n
- Phone: 01296 395000<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
- Enquiries and information: 0114 2718120 (Monday \u2013 Friday, 10am \u2013 4pm)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
- Email: nhvn@hotmail.co.uk<\/u><\/a><\/li>\n
- National Advice Service: 0300 5000 927 (Monday-Friday 10am \u2013 2pm)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n
- Email: help@b-eat.co.uk<\/u><\/a><\/li>\n
- Confidential helpline: 0800 138 8889<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
- Phone: 0844 775774 (Monday \u2013 Friday 9.30am \u2013 5.30pm)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
- Phone: 0844 4779400<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n
- Email: helpline@cruse.org.uk<\/a><\/li>\n
- Phone: 116 123<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
- Email: jo@samaritans.org<\/a><\/li>\n
- Email: info@mind.org.uk<\/u><\/a><\/li>\n
- Phone: 0845 1232320 (for information pack)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n