Mental Health Resources UK

Psychiatry Is Driving me Mad

https://www.psychiatryisdrivingmemad.co.uk/

 

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Self Injury Support

Self Injury Support focuses on improving support and knowledge around self-injury by offering support services; creating tools and information; and providing training.

https://www.selfinjurysupport.org.uk/

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WISH

WISH is a user-led women’s mental health charity developing pioneering support services for under-served women and campaigning together for social justice.

Mental Health Week 2024: Leave no woman behind

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Asylum the radical mental health magazine, has been running for nearly 40 years, acting as a platform to voice and discuss all perspectives on mental health.

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Mental Illness Is Not a Crime.

StopSIM Coalition

A coalition of service users and allies campaigning for the High Intensity Network’s Serenity Integrated Mentoring (SIM) to be halted and investigated.

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Hearing Voices Network

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A small national charity for people who hear voices, see visions or have other unusual perceptions.

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National Survivor User Network

NSUN is a network of community groups and people who have experience of mental distress, ill-health and trauma who come together to create, challenge, and campaign.

MadCovid is an intersectional mental health community for grassroots survivor and service-user led projects that started during the COVID19 pandemic.

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Recovery In The Bin

Recovery in the Bin is a critical theorist and activist collective for mental health Survivors and Supporters who are fed up with the co-option of mental health “recovery”. 

 

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mind.org.uk
beateatingdisorders.org.uk
mentalhealth.org.uk
samaritans.org

Akathisia Alliance

A nonprofit organisation formed by biochemists, psychologists, nurses, attorneys, business owners and others who have survived akathisia, suicidality, and devastating personal losses.

All Trials

A group campaigning to get all drug trials published.

AntiDepAware

Following the suicide of his son after taking citalopram, Brian set up this site and trawled through newspapers and coroners inquests finding cases of suicide and homicide where antidepressants may have been the cause. He has logged over 8000 cases.

Antidepressant Statistics

US based organisation collating statistics of Adverse Drug Reactions from Antidepressants and psychiatric medication.

Canadian PSSD Association

An association for people in North America experiencing Post SSRI Sexual Dysfunction.

Council for Evidence Based Psychiatry

Council for evidence based psychiatry exists to communicate evidence of the potentially harmful effects of psychiatric drugs to the people and institutions in the UK that can make a difference.

David Healy

Psychiatrist. Psychopharmacologist. Scientist. Author. Blog that is updated daily and offers reader debate. He is a leading expert on antidepressant induced psychosis and has been an expert witness on most high profile cases where antidepressants have been thought to be the cause of homicides, violence and suicide.

Drugwatch

Provides up to date information on drug recalls and side effects.

Everglow, The Rebecca Kruza Foundation

Campaigning to create Rebecca’s Law to safeguard mothers and babies where psychotropic medications are used, and instigate a review of Mirtazapine.

Inner Compass Withdrawal Project

Information and support helping people withdraw from psychiatric drugs.

International Institute for Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal (IIPDW)

Supporting the process of reducing and withdrawing from psychiatric drugs through practice, research and training.

MISSD

Medication-Induced Suicide Prevention and Education Foundation in Memory of Stewart Dolin.

Mad in America

Provides news of psychiatric research, original journalism articles, and a forum for an international group of writers.

Madi’s Law

A Canadian petition for safety waivers for psychotropic drugs

Olly’s Future

Olly was prescribed Citalopram over the phone. After just four days of taking this, he was overwhelmed and compelled to end his life suddenly. Olly’s Future is a campaign to ensure that the first time a patient is prescribed an anti-depressant, that they are seen by a doctor, face to face, so that they know the risks and possible side-effects.

Recovery Road

Lots of useful ideas on how to withdraw from antidepressants and benzodiazapenes.

RxISK

RxISK is a free, independent drug safety website to help you weigh the benefits of any medication against its potential dangers.

SSRI Stories

SSRI Stories is a collection of over 6,000 stories that have appeared in the media (newspapers, TV, scientific journals) in which prescription drugs were mentioned and in which the drugs may be linked to a variety of adverse outcomes including violence, suicides and homicides.

Surviving Antidepressants

Surviving Antidepressants is a peer support group for people withdrawing from antidepressants.

The Ollie Foundation

Providing accessible in-person and online training, events, initiatives and resources, including prescription safety awareness, to reduce the number of people who feel like suicide is their only option.

UK PSSD Association

An association for people in the UK experiencing Post SSRI Sexual Dysfunction.

 

 

Advice Links

All of these are ‘battle tested’ and have been used successfully by our members, if you have other recommendations based on successful real world direct lived experience please let us know Contact

ESA WCA & Universal Credit LCW & LCWRA assessment Advice wcainfo.net

PIP Assessments Advice pipinfo.net

Benefit Calculator and Advice entitledto.co.uk

Citizen’s Advice on PIP citizensadvice.org.uk/benefits/sick-or-disabled-people-and-carers/pip/

Citizen’s Advice on ESA/WCA citizensadvice.org.uk/benefits/sick-or-disabled-people-and-carers/employment-and-support-allowance/

Citizen’s Advice on Universal Credit https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/benefits/universal-credit/

Turn 2 Us Advice turn2us.org.uk/Your-Situation/Ill-Injured-or-Disabled#Benefits

Find Your Nearest Law Centre lawcentres.org.uk/about-law-centres/law-centres-on-google-maps/alphabetically

A Practical Guide For Healthcare Professionals On How To Support Clients Dealing With The Social Security System asylummagazine.org/2018/08/supporting-claimants-a-practical-guide-by-jay-watts/

Winvisible on PIP winvisibleblog.wordpress.com/2018/05/16/pip-personal-independence-payments/

Winvisible: Exemption from Face To Face Assessments ESA, Universal Credit & PIP winvisibleblog.wordpress.com/2017/12/10/benefit-exam-exemptions-briefing-for-professionals/

How to Record Your Assessment https://recoveryinthebin.org/put-pip-and-wca-assessments-on-the-record/

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Benefits & Work Tried & Tested Guides benefitsandwork.co.uk

Big Book Of Benefits Super Detailed Super Practical Guide To Everything! bigbookofbenefits.com/about/

Welfare Rights Books cpag.org.uk/shop/publications

Welfare Rights Handbook disabilityrightsuk.org/shop

RightsNet rightsnet.org.uk

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