Factsheets and booklets by subject

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If you are looking for information on a particular drug please see Drugs: an alphabetical list.

A

Abuse

• Abuse by health and social care workers

Access to files

• Legal briefing: Confidentiality and data protection

Addiction

• Understanding addiction and dependency
• Smoking, giving up and mental health

Admission to hospital

• How to cope with hospital admission
• Mind rights guide 1: Civil admission to hospital
• See also Legal advice

Adolescence see Children and young people

Advance decisions/directives

• Legal Briefing 4: Healthcare and Welfare/Personal Care Decisions under the Mental Capacity Act 2005

Advocacy

• Mind guide to advocacy

African Caribbean

• The African Caribbean community and mental health in Britain
• Legal support for Black patients part (II) - from Diverse Minds magazine article
• See also Black and Minority Ethnic groups

Aged see Older people

Alcohol

• Understanding dual diagnosis

Alternative therapies see Complementary therapies

Alzheimer's disease see Dementia

Anger management

• How to deal with anger
• How to restrain your violent impulses
• See also Violence

Anorexia

• Understanding eating distress

Antidepressants 

• Making sense of antidepressants
• Drugs: an alphabetical list
• Nefazodone
• Mind rights guide 3: Consent to treatment 
• See also Drugs

Antipsychotics

• Making sense of antipsychotics
• Drugs: an alphabetical list
• Mind rights guide three: Consent to treatment 
• Tardive dyskinesia
• See also Drugs / Psychoses

Anxiety

• Understanding anxiety
• How to assert yourself
• How to cope with panic attacks
• How to stop worrying 
• Mind troubleshooters: panic attacks

Approved Social Worker (ASW)

• Getting the best from your Approved Social Worker
• Who's who in mental health: a brief guide 
• See also Legal advice

Arts therapies

• Arts therapies

Art therapy

• Arts therapies

Asperger's syndrome

• for information on Asperger's syndrome, please visit the National Autistic Society website

Assertiveness

• Conquering a sense of inferiority
• How to assert yourself

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)

• Drugs for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
• Understanding ADHD

Attitudes

• Public attitudes to mental distress

Auditory hallucinations

• Understanding psychotic experiences 

Autism

• For general information on autism, please visit the National Autistic Society 
• For information on mental health and autism, see the National Autistic Society pages.

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B

Behaviour therapy

• Making sense of cognitive behaviour therapy
• See also Counselling

Benefits

• Managing on benefits

Benzodiazepines

• Making sense of sleeping pills and minor tranquillisers
• See also Minor tranquillisers

Bereavement

• Understanding bereavement

Bipolar disorder

• Understanding bipolar disorder (manic depression)
• Making sense of lithium and other mood stabilisers

Bisexuality see Sexuality

Black and Minority Ethnic groups

• Mental health in translation
• The African Caribbean community and mental health in Britain
• Mental health of Chinese and Vietnamese people in Britain
• The mental health of Irish people in Britain
• The mental health of the South Asian community in Britain
• Statistics 3: Race, culture and mental health
• Legal support for Black patients part (II) - from Diverse Minds magazine article

Blindness

• Mental health resources for blind and partially sighted people

Body dysmorphic disorder

• Body dysmorphic disorder

Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD)

• Understanding borderline personality disorder
• See also Personality disorders

Breakdown

• How to rebuild your life after breakdown

Bulimia

• Understanding eating distress

Bullying

• How to deal with bullying at work

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C

Cannabis

• Cannabis and mental health

Care Programme Approach (CPA)

• Community care 2 - Systems for delivering mental health services
• Who's who in mental health: a brief guide 
• Mind rights guide 6: Community care and aftercare

Careers

• Careers in mental health
• Seeking employment
• See also Employment

Carers

• Carers, How to access services,  information for carers
• How to cope as a carer
• How to help someone who is suicidal
• See also Services

Children and young people

• About self-harm: a guide for young people
• Children, young people and mental health
• My name is Pete (Young people and psychoses)
• Understanding childhood distress
• Young person's introduction to mental health

Chinese

• Mental health of Chinese and Vietnamese people in Britain
• See also Black and Minority Ethnic groups

Chinese medicine

• Making sense of traditional Chinese medicine

Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT)

• Making sense of cognitive behaviour therapy
• See also Counselling

Community care

• Community-based mental health and social care
• Who's who in mental health: a brief guide
• Getting the best from your Approved Social Worker
• The history of mental health and community care - key dates
• Mind rights guide 6: Community care and aftercare

Complementary therapies

• Hypnotherapy
• Making sense of herbal remedies
• Making sense of homeopathy
• Making sense of traditional Chinese medicine
• Mind guide to massage
• Mind guide to physical activity
• Mind guide to yoga
• St John's Wort (Hypericum perforatum)

Confidence

• How to increase your self-esteem
• How to assert yourself
• Conquering a sense of inferiority
• See also Anxiety

Confidentiality

• Legal briefing: Confidentiality and data protection
• See also Legal advice

Consent

• Mind rights guide 3: Consent to treatment 
• See also Legal advice

Cost

• Statistics 5: The financial aspects of mental health problems

Counselling

• Making sense of counselling
• Making sense of cognitive behaviour therapy
• Making sense of psychotherapy and psychoanalysis
• Understanding talking treatments

Creutzfeld Jakob Disease (CJD) see Dementia

Criminal justice system

• Mind rights guide 2: Mental health and the police
• Mind rights guide 5: Mental health and the courts
• Statistics 8: The Criminal Justice System
• See also Legal advice

Crisis cards see Consent

Crisis services

• Crisis services

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D

Dance therapy

• Arts therapies

Dangerousness

• Dangerousness and mental health: the facts

Deafness

• Deafness resources

Dementia

• Understanding dementia
• Confusion, depression or dementia? The need for comprehensive assessment
• Drugs for dementia

Dependency

• Understanding addiction and dependency

Depression

• Confusion, depression or dementia? The need for comprehensive assessment
• Understanding depression
• Understanding postnatal depression
• Understanding seasonal affective disorder

Dialectical behaviour therapy

• Dialectical behaviour therapy

Diet

• Mind guide to food and mood
• See also Eating distress

Disability

• Disabled people and mental health support services (web only)

Disability Discrimination Act

• Legal briefing: Disability Discrimination Act
• Insurance cover for people who have mental health problems
• Seeking employment

Disability Living Allowance see Benefits

Discharge from hospital

• Mind rights guide 4: Discharge from hospital

Discrimination see Attitudes / Disability Discrimination Act (above)

Dissociative disorders

• Understanding dissociative disorders

Drama therapy

• Arts therapies

Driving

• Legal briefing: Fitness to drive

Drug addiction

• Understanding addiction and dependency
• Understanding dual diagnosis
• Understanding the psychological effects of street drugs
• Cannabis and mental health

Drugs

• Drugs: an alphabetical list
• Drugs for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
• Drugs for dementia
• Making sense of antidepressants
• Making sense of antipsychotics
• Making sense of coming off psychiatric drugs
• Making sense of lithium and other mood stabilisers
• Making sense of sleeping pills and minor tranquillisers
• Mind rights guide 3: Consent to treatment 
• Nefazodone factsheet
• Understanding addiction and dependency
• Understanding the psychological effects of street drugs
• See also Herbal remedies

Dual diagnosis

• Understanding dual diagnosis
• Understanding addiction and dependency
• See also Drug addiction

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E

Eating distress

• Understanding eating distress

ECT

• Making sense of ECT
• Shock treatment survey 2001
• See also Consent

Elderly see Older people

Employment

• Careers in mental health
• Employing people with mental health problems
• How to deal with bullying at work
• Mind guide to surviving working life
• Realising people's potential
• Seeking employment
• Staying in employment

Ethics see Legal Advice

Exams see Students / Stress

Exercise

• Mind guide to physical activity
• See also Yoga

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F

Family

• How to survive family life
• See also Parenting

Finance

• Looking after your personal finances
• Realising people's potential
• See also Benefits / Insurance / Cost

Food see Diet

Forgetting

• How to cope with memory loss

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G

Gay see Sexuality

Gender dysphoria

• Understanding gender dysphoria

Grief

• Understanding bereavement

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H

Hallucinations

• Understanding psychotic experiences 

Hearing voices see Voices

Herbal remedies

• Making sense of herbal remedies
• Making sense of traditional Chinese medicine
• St John's Wort factsheet
• See also Complementary therapies

History

• History of Mind - The National Association for Mental Health
• The history of mental health and community care - key dates
• Notes on the history of mental health care 

Holidays

• Holidays

Homeopathy

• Making sense of homeopathy
• See also Complementary therapies

Homosexuality see Sexuality

Hospital admission

• How to cope with hospital admission
• Mind rights guide 1: Civil admission to hospital
• See also Legal advice

Hospital discharge

• Mind rights guide 4: Discharge from hospital

Housing

• Housing and mental health
• See also Services

Human Rights Act

• Legal briefing: The Human Rights Act 1998
• See also Legal advice

Hypnotherapy

• Hypnotherapy factsheet
• See also Complementary therapies

Hypomania

• Hypomania
  

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I

Incapacity benefit see Benefits

Inferiority

• Conquering a sense of inferiority

Insomnia see Sleep problems

Insurance

• Insurance cover for people who have mental health problems

Irish

• The mental health of Irish people in Britain
• See also Black and Minority Ethnic groups

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J

Jobs see Employment

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L

Languages see Translation

Learning disabilities

• Learning disabilities and mental health problems

Legal advice

• Getting the best from your Approved Social Worker
• Legal briefing: Aftercare under section 117 of the Mental Health Act
• Legal briefing: Clinical Negligence
• Legal briefing: Confidentiality and data protection
• Legal briefing: Disability Discrimination Act
• Legal briefing: Fitness to drive
• Legal briefing: How to complain about health and social care
• Legal briefing: Nearest relatives under the Mental Health Act 1983
• Legal briefing: The Human Rights Act 1998
• Legal briefing: Smoking: Part 1 of the Health Act 2006
• Legal briefing: The Human Rights Act 1998
• Legal unit FAQs
• Mental Health Act 1983 - an outline guide
• MCA briefing 1: Overview and Key Provisions of the Mental Capacity Act 2005
• MCA briefing 2: Financial Decisions under the Mental Capacity Act 2005
• MCA briefing 3: Structures and Safeguards under the Mental Capacity Act 2005
• MCA briefing 4: Healthcare and Welfare/Personal Care Decisions under the Mental Capacity Act 2005
• MHA briefing 1: Amendments made to the Mental Health Act 1983 by the Mental Health Act 2007
• MHA briefing 2: Supervised community treatment
• Mind rights guide 1: Civil admission to hospital
• Mind rights guide 2: Mental health and the police
• Mind rights guide 3: Consent to treatment 
• Mind rights guide 4: Discharge from hospital
• Mind rights guide 5: Mental health and the courts
• Mind rights guide 6: Community care and aftercare
• Mind rights guide 7: Managing your finances

Lesbian see Sexuality

Lithium

• Making sense of lithium and other mood stabilisers

Living wills see Consent

Loneliness

• How to cope with loneliness

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M

Major tranquillisers

• Making sense of antipsychotics
• Drugs: an alphabetical list
• Mind rights guide three: Consent to treatment 
• Tardive dyskinesia
• See also Drugs / Psychoses

Manic depression see Bipolar disorder

Massage

• Mind guide to massage
• See also Complementary therapies / Stress

Media

• Public attitudes to mental distress

Medication see Drugs

Memory problems

• How to cope with memory loss

Men

• Men's mental health

Mental breakdown see Breakdown

Mental distress

• How to rebuild your life after breakdown
• How to recognise the early signs of mental distress
• Understanding mental illness
• Deall salwch meddwl
• Statistics 1: How common is mental distress?

Mental Health Act

• Mental Health Act 1983 - an outline guide
• Statistics 4: The Mental Health Act 1983
• See Legal Advice for Mind Rights Guides booklets

Mental health promotion

• How to look after yourself
• How to increase your self-esteem
• How to improve your mental wellbeing

Mentally disordered offenders

• Dangerousness and mental health: the facts

Mid-life crisis

• How to survive mid-life crisis 

Mind

• History of Mind - The National Association for Mental Health factsheet

Minor tranquillisers

• Making sense of sleeping pills and minor tranquillisers
• Drugs: an alphabetical list
• Mind rights guide 3: Consent to treatment 
• See also Drugs

Money see Benefits / Insurance / Cost

Music therapy

• Arts therapies

Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD) see Dissociative disorders

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N

Nefazodone

• Nefazodone
• See also Antidepressants

Nervous breakdown see Breakdown

Neuroleptics see Antipsychotics

Neurosurgery

• Neurosurgery for mental disorder (psychosurgery)

Nutrition see Diet

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O

Obsessive compulsive disorder

• Understanding obsessive-compulsive disorder

Older people

• Confusion, depression or dementia? The need for comprehensive assessment
• Older people and mental health
• Mental health and older people in Wales
• Iechyd meddwl a phobl hyn yng Nghymru

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P

Panic attacks

• How to cope with panic attacks
• Mind troubleshooters: Panic attacks
• See also Anxiety

Paranoia

• Understanding paranoia
• Understanding psychotic experiences 

Parenting

• How to parent when you're in a crisis
• How to survive family life

Personality disorders

• Understanding personality disorder
• Understanding borderline personality disorder
• For Multiple Personality Disorder see Dissociative disorders

Phobias

• Understanding phobias

Police see Criminal Justice System

Postnatal depression

• Understanding postnatal depression

Post-traumatic stress disorder

• Understanding post-traumatic stress disorder

Premenstrual syndrome

• Understanding premenstrual syndrome

Primary care see Community care / Services

Professional abuse see Abuse

Psychiatry

• Who's who in mental health: a brief guide 

Psychoanalysis

• Making sense of psychotherapy and psychoanalysis

Psychologist

• Who's who in mental health: a brief guide 

Psychoses

• My name is Pete (Young people and psychoses)
• Understanding psychotic experiences
• Cannabis and mental health

Psychotherapy

• Making sense of psychotherapy and psychoanalysis
• Understanding talking treatments

Psychosurgery

• Neurosurgery for mental disorder (psychosurgery)

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R

Relationship problems

• How to cope with relationship problems

Residential care see Housing 

Rural

• Rural issues in mental health

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S

St John's Wort

• St John's wort factsheet (Hypericum perforatum)
• See also Herbal remedies

Schizoaffective disorder

• Understanding schizoaffective disorder 

Schizophrenia

• Understanding schizophrenia

Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)

• Understanding seasonal affective disorder

Sectioning see Mental Health Act

Self-esteem see Confidence

Self-harm

• About self-harm: a guide for young people
• Understanding self-harm

Services

• Who's who in mental health: a brief guide
• See Community care

Sexual abuse

• Sexual abuse factsheet
• Abuse by health and social care workers

Sexuality

• How to cope with doubts about your sexuality
• Lesbians, gay men and bisexuals and mental health

Side-effects see Drugs / Tardive dyskinesia

Sleep problems

• How to cope with sleep problems
• Making sense of sleeping pills and minor tranquillisers
• Mind troubleshooters: sleep problems

Smoking

• Smoking, giving up and mental health

Social context

• Statistics 6: The social context of mental distress

Social security benefits see Benefits

Social worker

• Who's who in mental health: a brief guide
• See also Approved Social Worker (ASW)

South Asian

• The mental health of the South Asian community in Britain factsheet
• See also Black and Minority Ethnic groups

Spirituality

• Mind guide to spiritual practices

Statistics

• Statistics 1: How common is mental distress?
• Statistics 2: Suicide
• Statistics 3: Race, culture and mental health
• Statistics 4: The Mental Health Act 1983
• Statistics 5: The financial aspects of mental health problems
• Statistics 6: The social context of mental distress
• Statistics 7: Treatments and services for people with mental health problems
• Statistics 8: The Criminal Justice System
• Statistics 9: The Mental Health Act 1983 (Wales)

Stigma

• Public attitudes to mental distress

Street drugs

• Understanding addiction and dependency
• Understanding dual diagnosis
• Understanding the psychological effects of street drugs
• Cannabis and mental health

Stress

• How to cope with exam stress
• How to cope with the stress of student life
• Mind guide to managing stress
• Mind guide to relaxation
• Mind troubleshooters: stress

Students

• How to cope with exam stress
• How to cope with the stress of student life

Suicide

• How to cope with suicidal feelings
• How to help someone who is suicidal
• Suicide rates, risks and prevention strategies
• Statistics 2: Suicide

Survivors see User movement

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T

Talking treatments

• Understanding talking treatments
• See also Cognitive behaviour therapy, Counselling, Dialectical behaviour therapy, Psychotherapy.

Tardive dyskinesia

• Tardive dyskinesia

Teenagers see Children and young people

Therapeutic communities

• Housing and mental health

Thyroid function see Hypomania

Tranquillisers see Minor tranquillisers or Antipsychotics

Translation

• Mental health in translation

Transsexualism

• Understanding gender dysphoria

Treatments

• Statistics 7: Treatments and services for people with mental health problems
• Understanding talking treatments
• See also Drugs / Complementary therapies / Counselling

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U

User movement

• Legal briefing: Advance directives
• User/survivor empowerment

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V

Vietnamese

• Mental health of Chinese and Vietnamese people in Britain
• See also Black and Minority Ethnic groups

Violence

• Dangerousness and mental health: the facts

Visual impairment

• Mental health resources for blind and partially sighted people

Voice movement therapy

• Arts therapies

Voices

• The voice inside
• See also Psychoses

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Wales

• Mental health statistics Wales
• Deall salwch meddwl

Well-being

• How to improve your mental wellbeing

Women

• Women and mental health

Work see Employment

Working in mental health

• Careers in mental health

Worrying see Anxiety

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Y

Yoga

• Mind guide to yoga

Young people see Children and young people