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Our Mental Illness Moments of the Decade
The past decade has been a memorable one for the charity and the mental health sector. Take a look back at some of our highlights.
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Meet our 2019 Award Winners
Our annual Pringle and Janey awards recognise people and groups who have made a real difference to people severely affected by mental illness during the previous year and is just one of the highlights of our yearly member's event.
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Section 117 After-care & Personal Health Budgets
From the 2 December you can get a personal budget if you have been detained under the Mental Health Act. Find out more about these changes and what you are entitled to.
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The Rethink Mental Illness Moments of the Decade
31/12/2019
The past decade has been a memorable one for the charity, here are our top moments.
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How to manage your mental illness over Christmas
23/12/2019
Christmas isn't always easy, particularly for those of us experiencing mental illness. Here's some top tips from our supporters on dealing with the holiday.
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23/12/2019
We asked our colleagues in services, who work day-in-day-out to improve the lives of people affected by mental illness, for their highlights of the year.
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Why we all need to talk about suicide prevention
16/10/2019
Globally, someone loses their life to suicide every 40 seconds. Too many lives are destroyed by something so preventable. For this blog, Ida Väisänen recounts having it all – a dream job, a loving family and close friends – and yet, still feeling suicidal.
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Luciana Berger: “Let’s take a zero-suicide approach and end suicide for good”
10/10/2019
World Mental Health Day 2019 is focused on preventing suicide – which remains a global public health emergency, causing 800,000 deaths every year worldwide. Here, Luciana Berger, MP for Liverpool Wavertree, calls on government and local authorities to set a target of reducing the number of suicides to zero, so every family is spared of the anguish and heartache caused by suicide.
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I was lucky. Many are not. – Simon Gray on surviving suicide
09/10/2019
According to the World Health Organisation, someone loses their life to suicide every 40 seconds. To highlight this harrowing fact, the theme for this year’s World Mental Health Day is ‘suicide prevention’. In this special blog, Simon Gray shares his first-hand experience of suicide and the collective responsibility and role we can have in preventing it.
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Telling your partner you live with a mental illness
14/02/2019
If you meet someone, when is the right time to disclose your illness? We asked mental health campaigner Ellie about when she first tackles that tricky conversation.
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Today marks one year since I last self-harmed
10/12/2018
Our great friend and all-round great guy, Carl Burkitt, tells us about his experience of self-harm and how he learned to treat himself with compassion and understanding.
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