Information and advice
Mind publishes information on many topics relating to mental health, which we group into seven broad categories: diagnoses and conditions, treatments, mental health statistics, support and social care, communities and social groups, and society and environment.
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Popular topics
| Understanding mental health problems | Mental health problems - the early signs |
| Crisis and emergency | |
| Supporting someone with a mental health problem |
- Abuse
- Abuse by health and social care workers
- Addiction and dependency
- Advocacy
- Aftercare under section 117 of the Mental Health Act
- Anger
- Anger - a comic-style booklet for young people
- Antidepressants
- Antipsychotics
- Anxiety
- Arts therapies - making sense
- Asserting yourself
- Bereavement
- Bereavement - a comic-style booklet for young people
- Bipolar disorder (manic depression)
- Body dysmorphic disorder
- Borderline personality disorder
- Breakdown - how to rebuild your life
- Cannabis and mental health
- Carers - how to cope
- Children and Young People
- Clinical negligence
- Cognitive behaviour therapy
- Community care and aftercare
- Community-based mental health and social care
- Complaining about health and social care
- Complementary and alternative therapy resources
- Confidentiality and data protection
- Consent to treatment
- Counselling
- Criminal Justice System - statistics
- Crisis services
- Dangerousness and mental health: the facts
- Debt and mental health
- Depression
- Depression: Antidepressants
- Depression: Bipolar disorder (manic depression)
- Depression: postnatal depression
- Depression: Seasonal affective disorder
- Dialectical behaviour therapy
- Disability discrimination
- Disability discrimination under the Equality Act 2010
- Dissociative disorders
- Drug treatments: antidepressants
- Drug treatments: antipsychotics
- Drug treatments: lithium and other mood stabilisers
- Drug treatments: sleeping pills and minor tranquillisers
- Drugs: an alphabetical list
- Drugs: coming off psychiatric drugs
- Eating distress - a comic-style booklet for young people
- Eating problems
- Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)
- Exam stress
- Family life - how to survive
- Fitness to drive
- Food and mood
- Funding opportunities
- Help to manage money
- History of mental health and community care - key dates
- History of Mind - The National Association for Mental Health
- Holidays
- Hospital: Civil admission to hospital (sectioning)
- Hospital: civil admission to hospital (sectioning)
- Hospital: Discharge from hospital
- Hospital: Discharge from hospital
- Hospital: How to cope with hospital admission
- Housing and mental health, the Mind guide
- How mental health problems can affect your finances
- How to keep money under control
- Human Rights Act 1998
- Hypomania and mania
- Insurance cover
- Key Facts about mental health
- Learning disabilities resources
- Legal Unit FAQs
- Lithium and other mood stabilisers
- Loneliness
- Mania
- Medication: antidpressants
- Medication: antipsychotics
- Medication: lithium and other mood stabilisers
- Medication: sleeping pills and minor tranquillisers
- Mental Capacity Act 2005 - financial decisions
- Mental Capacity Act 2005 - Health and welfare decisions
- Mental Capacity Act 2005 - overview and key provisions
- Mental Capacity Act 2005 - structures and safeguards
- Mental Capacity Act: deprivation of liberty safeguards
- Mental distress - statistics
- Mental Health Act 1983 - amendments
- Mental Health Act 1983 - definition of nearest relative
- Mental Health Act 1983: an outline guide
- Mental health and the courts
- Mental health problems - the early signs
- Mental health problems - understanding
- Money and mental health
- Neurosurgery for mental disorder (psychosurgery)
- Obsessive-compulsive disorder
- Older people and mental health
- Panic attacks - brief guide
- Panic attacks - in depth guide
- Paranoia
- Parent when you're in a crisis
- Personal budgets - the Mind guide
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Police and mental health
- Post-traumatic stress disorder
- Postnatal depression
- Psychosis - a comic-style booklet for young people
- Psychotic experiences
- Quick tips for managing your money
- Race, culture and mental health - statistics
- Relaxation
- Schizoaffective disorder
- Schizophrenia
- Schizophrenia: antipsychotics
- Seasonal affective disorder
- Self-esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexuality and mental health
- Sleep problems - brief guide
- Sleep problems: a guide
- Sleeping pills and minor tranquillisers
- Smoking: Part 1 of the Health Act 2006
- Socialising - how to stay socially involved
- St John's Wort (Hypericum perforatum)
- Street drugs - the mental health effects
- Stress - in-depth guide
- Stress - quick guide
- Stress of student life
- Suicidal feelings - how to cope
- Suicide: how to help someone who is suicidal
- Supervised community treatment
- Talking treatments
- Tardive dyskinesia
- Wellbeing
- Who's who in mental health: a brief guide
- Women and mental health
- Working life
- Worry
- Young people and children