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Transgender mental health - Practical tips
Advice and information |1 min read |Last updated: 09/05/2025
If you identify as transgender, you are more likely to report long-term mental health conditions compared to cisgender people. This information looks at how transgender people can maintain their mental health.
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Schizophrenia
Advice and information |1 min read |Last updated: 01/05/2025
This section covers what schizophrenia is, what the symptoms are and how you can get treatment.
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Antipsychotics
Advice and information |1 min read |Last updated: 01/05/2025
This section explains what antipsychotics are. Antipsychotics are medications often used to treat the symptoms of schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders. They can also be used to treat bipolar disorder.
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Schizoaffective disorder
Advice and information |1 min read |Last updated: 01/05/2025
This section explains what schizoaffective disorder is, and how to get help if you have the symptoms. This information is for people who are 18 or over and affected by mental illness in England. It is also for their loved ones and carers, and anyone interested in this subject.
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Confidentiality and your mental health information
Advice and information |1 min read |Last updated: 01/05/2025
Many different organisations will need to record information about you. For example, health professionals need to keep information about your treatment. This section explains how organisations should protect the information you give them.
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Worried about your mental health? How to get treatment and support
Advice and information |1 min read |Last updated: 08/05/2025
This section explains how you can get help if you are worried about your mental health. It explains about options for treatment and support. Such as seeing your GP, talking therapy, self-help and support from charities.
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Section 36 of the Mental Health Act - When the Crown Court sends you to hospital for treatment
Advice and information |1 min read |Last updated: 08/05/2025
A Crown Court can send you to hospital for treatment at any time during your court case, if necessary. They can do this under section 36 of the Mental Health Act 1983. This section looks at when and how courts use this power.
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News and stories
1 min read |Last updated: 28/04/2025
News and stories For over fifty years we have been the voice of people severely affected by mental illness. Every year thousands of people see our media coverage, read our blogs and share the stories that matter to them. Take a look around our news and stories archive and be inspired today. Latest press releases
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Body-focused repetitive behaviours (BFRBs)
Advice and information |1 min read |Last updated: 09/05/2025
This This information looks at body-focused repetitive behaviours (BFRBs), including causes, symptoms, and treatments.
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Rethink Mental Illness responds to government's Back to Work Plan
1 min read |Last updated: 16/11/2023
The government today published a plan to 'help up to 1,100,000 people with long-term health conditions, disabilities or long-term unemployment to look for and stay in work.' Mark Winstanley, Chief Executive of Rethink Mental Illness, said: “People living with mental illness can work with the right support, when they feel ready to do so, bringing positive...
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What our supporters tell us
1 min read |Last updated: 19/06/2024
What our supporters tell us People severely affected by mental illness deserve: the right support, quality housing, meaningful employment, good physical health, social connections, and judgement-free life. That’s why Rethink Mental Illness exists. But are our services, helplines, and peer support groups achieving that for people? We spoke to people...
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London rapper Shocka announced as Rethink Mental Illness ambassador
Last updated: 07/03/2025
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Rethink Mental Illness response to CQC's Mental Health Act monitoring report
1 min read |Last updated: 22/02/2022
Associate Director for Policy and Practice, Alexa Knight, responds to the CQC's Mental Health Act monitoring report: “Today’s report from the CQC makes for sobering reading. The injustice that sees Black men far more likely to be detained under the Mental Health Act continues and is also exacerbated by failures in social care which mean there is often...
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