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The Mental Health Foundation - Charity improving the lives of those with mental health problems or learning disabilities. Research, service development and information to increase understanding.

Mind The Mental Health Charity - Extensive collection of information about mental health and related topics. Mind is a national UK charity with many regional branches.

The Institute of Mental Health Law - Specialises in all aspects of the Mental Health Act 1983 and allied legislation.

AMC Mentoring Ltd. - Provides stress management services for employees. Tips and information on beating stress.

First Step Trust - Organisation which develops projects offering work to people with mental health problems and other disabilities.

Mental Health Media - Organisation which offers media services, training and facilitation to allow the expression of mental health issues.

Priory Healthcare - UK provider of psychiatric and mental health services. Advice about addictions, eating and psychiatric disorders.

United Kingdom Mental Health Resource Centre - Information and resources about mental illness, health and social care for users, staff, students, professionals and the community.

HyperGUIDE to the Mental Health Act - Comprehensive guide to the 1983 Mental Health Act. Covers all sections of the act, current policy and Likely future developments

JCK Training - Designs and facilitates in-house courses for professionals involved in the care and support of mentally disordered people.

Reach Personal Injury - Home based brain injury rehabilitation for patients requiring behavioural, neuro-psychological and occupational therapy, counselling, care and rehabilitation.

Help is at Hand - Series of self help leaflets written by The Royal College of Psychiatrists. Covers a range of psychological disorders.

SANE - Mental health charity, deals with all mental illnesses including depression, schizophrenia, anxiety and phobias. Also offers a telephone helpline offering support and information. Contains information and links to support groups.

Cogntive Behavioural Psychotherapy and Mental Health - Site specialising in cognitive and behavioural psychotherapy. Includes resources for both clients and professionals.

UK Mental Health Links Page - A large collection of links relevant to professional carers, categorised into sections, with short descriptions of the sites content.

Folkestone Clubhouse - Information about centre in Kent which offers men and women with mental health difficulties psycho-social rehabilitation to aid recovery in the community and gain meaningful employment.

Mental Health Matters - Details of initiatives in the Bristol and surrounding region to assist people rehabilitating from severe mental health problems.

The Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health - Extensive information from organisation aiming to improve the quality of life for people with severe mental health problems. Includes practices, publications, public policy issues, information about research and training.

Mental Health Recovery - Aims to act as a resource for those looking for information about mental health recovery.

Distress Awareness Training Agency - Information from group who provide training, research and consultancy services in mental health. All members have have experienced mental and emotional distress themselves.

Cygnet Health Care - Information about organisation providing private mental healthcare treatment in clinics.

Riverdale Grange Treatment Clinic - Details of clinic specialising in the treatment of eating disorders: anorexia, bulimia and obesity.

Barton Hill Advice Service - Information for those wishing to claim the Disability Living Allowance (DLA) in connection with mental health problems.

Creative Support - Contact details and information about providers of housing and support for people with mental health needs and learning disabilities.

The Happiness Page - Links and information about happiness.

Making Space - Registered charity offering practical support to those suffering from serious mental illness and their families. Carers' forum, information about illnesses, and annual report.

YoungMinds - Promotes child and adolescent mental health and mental health services. Is also involved in consultancy work, training, and producing information leaflets.

Rethink - Severe Mental Illness - Working together to help everyone affected by severe mental illness to recover a better quality of life. Membership information, services and fundraising.

The Psychotic - Satirical look at the UK mental health scene. Covers Law, policy and voluntary sector. Needs Macromedia Flash Player 6.

The Media Bureau - The Media Bureau is a national one-stop-PR-shop offering media skills training and a range of support services to help mental health services users and survivors communicate confidently and effectively through the media.

Mike Lawson's Survivor Website - Website of survivor activist, agrophobic, Mike lawson. Includes music and resources.

National Institute for Mental Health for England - A gateway to learning and development. for both users and support staff working with Mental health issues.

Florence Nightingale Hospitals - Specialists in the treatment of psychological and emotional problems, addictions and eating disorders.

The British Association of Play Therapists - Information and resources on play therapy, including how to find a qualified Play Therapist and training opportunities.

Sandwell MIND Bookshop - Includes mental health links and books available through Amazon.

First Steps to Freedom - Help, information advice and support for those suffering from stress/anxiety disorders such as phobias, panic attacks, obsessive compulsive disorder and tranquiliser withdrawal. Factsheets and contact details.

Socialphobia - Free community for people living with or coping with others suffering and recovering from socialphobia.

In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes. -- Elizabeth Ashley In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from. -- Peter F. Drucker "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post. -- George Bernard Shaw Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things: and in that Mental Health When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped. -- Marcel Achard Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it. -- Josephus Daniels "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Mental Health Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else. -- James Matthew Barrie Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of. -- Peter Ustinov "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Assassins! -- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough? - Niels Bohr Mental Health "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full of grac Mental Health When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now comple In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person must be fired. -- Conway's Law "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be. -- Mark Twain I must follow the people. Am I not their leader? -- Benjamin Disraeli Mental Health "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers. -- Thomas Jefferson Mental Health "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time. - George Bernard Shaw If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes. -- Bob Edwards Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age. -- Jeanne Moreau Mental Health Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is. -- Thomas Szasz No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why. -- Mignon McLaughlin Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words. -- Fr. Jerome Cummings Mental Health Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it. -- Anonymous I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one more letter she'd have to remember. -- Shecky Greene "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson >From error to error one discovers the entire truth. -- Sigmund Freud Mental Health The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. -- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can. -- Margo Kaufman There is no sincerer love than the love of food. -- George Bernard Shaw Mental Health "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order. -- Brian Pickrell The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.... -- Carl Zwanzig Mental Health Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this is not difficult. -- Charlotte Whitton blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it. -- Alexandre Dumas fils Mental Health My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the calm confidence of a Christian with four aces. -- Mark Twain It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions. -- Aldous Huxley You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency. -- W. Somerset Maugham I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox. -- Woody Allen Mental Health "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why. -- Mignon McLaughlin Mental Health "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer. -- Anon. Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- P. J. O'Rourke In the end, everything is a gag. -- Charlie Chaplin Mental Health For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: "It might have been!" -- John Greenleaf Whittier There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. - Albert Einstein I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying! -- Woody Allen Mental Health May you never leave your marriage alive. Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life. -- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different. -- Tony Bennett, 1995 Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add up. -- Anon It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult. -- Seneca Mental Health "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents. -- H. L. Mencken Mental Health There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money. -- Benjamin Franklin No other success can compensate for failure in the home. -- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he LDS Church, April, 1964 "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again. -- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats. -- Anonymous Mental Health In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. - Martin Luther King Jr. I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Mental Health We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings. -- Abraham Maslow The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be feasible. - A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. -- Albert Einstein Mental Health This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel. -- Horace Walpole "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Mental Health
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