About mental health

This is the first in a series of Rethink reports on mental health recovery. It identifies 100 ways in which people working across the mental health sector can support the recovery of people with mental health problems.

The booklet accompanying the recovery programme for depression, produced in conjunction between Rethink and the universities of York, Leeds and Manchester.

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This factsheet explains how and when you can access health records and further information.

Over 50,000 people living in the community with severe mental illness have little or no support from services. What could be done for this Forgotten Generation? Action Stations identifies areas of good practice and barriers to service provision.

A factsheet designed to help people using mental health services say what they want, obtain their rights and gain access to the services they need.

A novel by Alastair Campbell | Personally signed by author | Proceeds to Rethink | Martin Sturrock desperately needs a psychiatrist. The problem? He is one. Emily is a traumatised burns victim and Arta, a Kosovan refugee recovering from a rape. Very different Londoners, but they share one thing: every week they spend an hour at the Prince Regent hospital, revealing the secrets of their psyche to Professor Martin Sturrock.

With this year’s annual review we’ve produced a special booklet that highlights the way Rethink involves real people in every part of its work, and the real changes it is working towards making for people affected by mental illness.

Between 1 and 4 in 100 people experience anxiety, worry, fear and panic at a greater level than is normal considering the threats around them. This fact sheet discusses the symptoms and dfferent types of anxiety, including Post Traumatic Stress Disorder PTSD, as well as the alternative treatments.

Assertive outreach is the term for intervention that targets people who have been diagnosed with a mental illness but have not been engaged with mental health services. This factsheet explains how the intervention works.

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a genetically determined condition, usually noticeable in early childhood, that affects the parts of the brain that control attention, impulses and concentration. This factsheet provides information about the disorder.