Experiences and recovery

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.

A novel which shows how difficult it can be to love someone suffering from manic depression.

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.

This fact sheet contains information on how antidepressants work, the different types of antidepressants available, what the side effects are and further information.

A book dealing with lifestyle factors which could increase stress, anxiety and depression, as well as ways to combat them such as healthy eating.

A report by Rethink, SANE, the Zito trust and NAPICU into inpatient care.

This factsheets explains what conditions benzodiazepines are used for, what types exist, the possible side effects and further information.

Breaking the Silence looks at how physically disabled people, African Americans, women and the LGBT community have had their rights recognised through civil rights and suggests how people with mental illness could do the same.

Broken Things encompasses a world of fractured realities and magic. Here are voices lost inside themselves, where the world is not as it should be and nothing may be trusted. These are the lives that are eked out at the very edges of the city, where God might be found in a bonfire or a bag lady can burst into a flock of pigeons and wild laughter. This book picks at the familiar parts of the everyday and frays them, very slightly, reminding us of the beauty and fear of dreams, of things just glimpsed through the corner of the eye.