Useful contacts

National Advice Service
Rethink severe mental illness (formerly National Schizophrenia Fellowship) is the leading charity with information on schizophrenia. We run day services, support services, respite care, advice and help lines, and courses for both people with mental illness and their carers. We are also involved in campaigning and challenging stigma.
Tel: 0208 974 6814
Email: advice@rethink.org
Address: Rethink, 28 Castle Street, Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey, KT1 1SS


Anxiety Care
This is a charity that specialises in helping people to recover from anxiety disorders and to maintain that recovery. This involves helping to plan, initiate and carry through personal recovery programmes.
Tel: 020 8478 3400
Email: enquiries@anxietycare.org.uk
Address: Cardinal Heenan Centre, 326 High Road, Ilford, Essex, IG1 1QP


Social Anxiety UK
The central organisation for sufferers of social anxiety in the UK. They are a web-based organisation. It serves as a source of information, a hub for people with social anxiety and to raise the profile of the illness.
Email: contact@social-anxiety.org.uk


Triumph Over Phobia
A charity set up to help sufferers of phobias or obsessive compulsive disorder to become ex-sufferers. They run a network of self-help groups which lead people to face up to their fears in a gradual and structured way to decrease their anxiety.
Tel: 0845 600 9601
Email: info@triumphoverphobia.org.uk
Address: TOP UK, PO Box 3760, Bath, BA2, 3WY


No Panic
No Panic supports sufferers of panic attacks, phobias, obsessive-compulsive disorder, generalised anxiety disorder and tranquilliser withdrawal.
Tel: 0808 808 0545
Email: ceo@nopanic.org.uk
Address: No Panic, 93 Brands Farm Way, Telford, Shropshire, TF3 2JQ


OCD Action
OCD Action exists to provide information, advice and support for people with obsessive compulsive disorder and related disorders such as body dysmorphic disorder, compulsive skin picking and trichotillomania.
Tel: 020 7226 4000
Email: info@ocdaction.org.uk
Address: OCD Action, 22/24 Highbury Grove, Suite 107, London N5 2EA


First Steps 
First Steps to Freedom provides help, advice and support to families and sufferers of phobias, panic attacks and obsessive compulsive disorder together with help, as well as to families of those with borderline personality disorder.
Tel: 0845 120 2916
Email: first.steps@btconnect.com
Address: First Steps to Freedom, 7 Avon Court, School Lane, Kenilworth, Warwickshire, CV8 2GX