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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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• Abuse by health and social care workers
• Addiction and dependency
• ADHD
• ADHD - drugs
• ADHD: Drug treatments
• Advocacy
• African Caribbean community
• Anger
  How to manage anger in a constructive and healthy way.
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• Anger - a comic-style booklet for young people
• Antidepressants
• Antipsychotics
• Anxiety
• Arts therapies
• Asserting yourself
• Audio translations
• Benefits - how to manage
• Bereavement
• Bipolar disorder (manic depression)
• Blind and partially sighted people
• Body dysmorphic disorder
  What body dysmorphic disorder is, how it is diagnosed, and the available treatment.
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• Borderline personality disorder
• Breakdown - how to rebuild your life
• Bullying at work
• Cannabis and mental health
• Careers in mental health
• Carers - how to access services
• Carers - how to cope
• Childhood distress
• Children, young people and mental health
• Chinese and Vietnamese people in Britain
• Chinese medicine
• Clinical negligence
• Cognitive behaviour therapy
• Community care and aftercare
• Community-based mental health and social care
• Complaining about health and social care
• Confidentiality and data protection
• Confusion, depression or dementia?
• Consent to treatment
• Counselling
• Criminal Justice System - statistics
• Crisis services
• Dangerousness and mental health: the facts
• Deafness resources
• Dementia
• Depression
  This guide describes the symptoms of depression and the different kinds of treatment available. It suggests ways that people can help themselves, and what family and friends can do. It also tells you where to find further advice and information.
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• Depression: Antidepressants
• Depression: Bipolar disorder (manic depression)
• Depression: postnatal depression
• Depression: Seasonal affective disorder
• Dialectical behaviour therapy
• Disability discrimination
• Dissociative disorders
• Drug treatments: antidepressants
• Drug treatments: antipsychotics
• Drug treatments: lithium and other mood stabilisers
• Drug treatments: sleeping pills and minor tranquillisers
• Drugs for dementia
• Drugs: an alphabetical list
• Drugs: coming off psychiatric drugs
• Dual diagnosis
• Eating distress
• Eating distress - a comic-style booklet for young people
• Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)
• Employing people with mental health problems
• Employment - staying in employment
• Employment: Realising people’s potential
  A guide for business advisers.
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• Exam stress
• Family life - how to survive
• Finances and mental health
  Managing personal finances and good mental health go hand in hand. So, if you are struggling to keep control of your income and expenditure, you may find that your mental health is affected. Likewise, if you find that you cannot cope with your feelings or
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• Fitness to drive
• Food and mood
• Gender dysphoria
• Healthcare and Welfare/Personal Care Decisions
• Hearing voices: The voice inside: Coping with hearing voices
• Herbal remedies
• History of Mind - The National Association for Mental Health
• Holidays
• Homeopathy
• 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
• Human Rights Act 1998
• Hypomania
• Inferiority - conquering a sense of inferiority
• Insurance cover
• Irish people in Britain
• Learning disabilities and mental health problems
• Lesbians, gay men and bisexuals and mental health
• Lithium and other mood stabilisers
• Loneliness
• Looking after yourself
  How to look after yourself
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• Managing your money: a Mind troubleshooter
  A brief factfile on looking after your personal finances
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• Massage
• Medication for ADHD
• Medication for dementia
• Medication: antidpressants
• Medication: antipsychotics
• Medication: lithium and other mood stabilisers
• Medication: sleeping pills and minor tranquillisers
• Memory loss
• Men's mental health
• Mental Capacity Act 2005 - financial 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 distress - the early signs
• Mental Health Act 1983 (Wales) - statistics
• Mental Health Act 1983 - amendments
• Mental Health Act 1983 - definition of nearest relative
• Mental Health Act 1983 - statistics
• Mental Health Act 1983: an outline guide
• Mental health and the courts
• Mental health in translation
• Mental illness - an overview
• Mental wellbeing
• Mid-life crisis
• Money and mental health: Looking after personal finances
• Money and mental health: Starting your own business
• Nefazodone
• Neurosurgery for mental disorder (psychosurgery)
• Notes on the history of mental health care
• 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
• Personality disorders
• Phobias
• Physical activity
  Physical activity can boost mental wellbeing and change your outlook on life.
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• Police and mental health
• Post-traumatic stress disorder
• Postnatal depression
• Premenstrual syndrome
• Psychosis - a comic-style booklet for young people
• Psychotherapy and psychoanalysis
• Psychotic experience
• Public attitudes to mental distress
• Race, culture and mental health - statistics
• Relationship problems
• Relaxation
• Rural issues in mental health
• Schizoaffective disorder
• Schizophrenia
• Schizophrenia: antipsychotics
• Seasonal affective disorder
• Self harm
  This page is for anyone who self-harms, their friends and family. It should give readers a greater understanding and knowledge of the condition and of what they can do to help overcome it.
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• Self-esteem
• Self-harm: information for young people
• Sexual abuse
  Resources for anyone who has experienced sexual abuse in a variety of situations
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• Sexuality - how to cope with doubts
• Sleep problems - brief guide
• Sleep problems - in depth guide
• Sleeping pills and minor tranquillisers
• Smoking, giving up and mental health
• Smoking: Part 1 of the Health Act 2006
• Social context of mental distress - statistics
• Social life - how to get a social life
• Someone who is suicidal
  How to help someone who is suicidal
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• South Asian community in Britain
• Spiritual practices
• St John's Wort (Hypericum perforatum)
• Street drugs - the psychological effects
• Stress - in-depth guide
  Explains when and how stress can be bad for you, signs of stress, and strategies for coping with it and other sources of help.
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• Stress - quick guide
• Stress of student life
• Suicidal feelings
• Suicide - statistics
• Suicide rates, risks and prevention strategies
• Supervised community treatment
• Talking treatments
• Tardive dyskinesia
• The financial aspects of mental health problems - statistics
• The history of mental health and community care - key dates
• Treatments and services: Statistics
• User/survivor empowerment
• Violent impulses
• Who's who in mental health: a brief guide
• Women and mental health
• Working life
  This leaflet is about staying well at work.
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• Worry
• Yoga
  The Mind guide to yoga
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• Young person's introduction to mental health