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Work, volunteering, and mental illness
Advice and information |1 min read |Last updated: 14/10/2025
This section explains your options for finding work or volunteering opportunities. These things can be important for your mental health.
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How is PTSD diagnosed?
Advice and information |1 min read |Last updated: 26/06/2025
How is PTSD diagnosed? After four weeks of experiencing trauma, it is best to see your GP if: you are still having problems about the experience, and the symptoms are troubling you. The earlier you get help, the better. Visit our symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) page to find out more. How can my GP help me? Your GP should talk to...
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Patients leaving GP appointments after not discussing all worries
Last updated: 18/10/2024
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Coalition calls for government strategy to tackle ‘causes rather than symptoms’ of deepening mental health crisis
1 min read |Last updated: 09/05/2025
Coalition of organisations representing people living with mental illness and other disabilities calls for strategy that identifies and tackles drivers of mental ill-health across education, health, welfare and more. The group warns against proposed benefit cuts, which they say could exacerbate the mental health crisis. Letter calls for...
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Supporters & ambassadors
1 min read |Last updated: 27/02/2025
Ambassadors and high-profile supporters We're delighted to have the support of our high-profile supporters and ambassadors. From supporting our campaigns and fundraising, to raising awareness of mental illness, they do huge amounts to support our work to improve the lives of people severely affected by mental illness.
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Severe Mental illness and Covid 19: Service support and digital solutions
Campaigns and policy |1 min read |Last updated: 10/02/2025
Severe Mental illness & Covid 19: Service support and digital solutions Report published 17 June 2020 by Jonathan Moore. This briefing shares the insights that Rethink Mental Illness has gleaned on service support and digital solutions during the pandemic. Some of these insights are based on online research we have conducted with service users,...
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New survey reveals stark impact of NHS mental health treatment waiting times
1 min read |Last updated: 25/06/2024
Charity calls on next government to ‘fix the mental health system’ as majority of people who attempted to access mental health services within last two years feel they weren’t seen quickly enough, with four in five experiencing a deterioration in their mental health. One-third of people whose mental health worsened while waiting for treatment took...
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Urgent campaign launches to increase awareness of psychosis
1 min read |Last updated: 21/03/2022
Urgent campaign launches to increase awareness of psychosis, as research shows a quarter of young people at greatest risk have never heard of it. A quarter of 18–34-year-olds (24%) say they have not heard of psychosis* One third (34%) of GB adults said they don’t know how confident they would be that they could spot symptoms of psychosis, compared...
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Covid-19 and support in the community
Campaigns and policy |1 min read |Last updated: 10/02/2025
Severe Mental illness & Covid 19: Service support and digital solutions Report published 17 June 2020 by Jonathan Moore. This briefing shares the insights that Rethink Mental Illness has gleaned on service support and digital solutions during the pandemic. Some of these insights are based on online research we have conducted with service users,...
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A day in the life of a Rethink Advice and Information Service Advisor
1 min read |Last updated: 22/09/2025
The Rethink Advice and Information Service (RAIS) provides a trusted resource for information on mental illness, mental health laws, and guidance for carers. You can contact the team by phone or web chat every weekday, and they would be happy to help with any queries you have. We spoke to RAIS advisor, Amber, to find out more about her role and what...
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Community Mental Health Framework research
1 min read |Last updated: 20/06/2023
Getting started: lessons from the first year of implementing the Community Mental Health Framework Rethink Mental Illness's new report explores key learning from the first full year of implementation of NHS England's Community Mental Health Framework. We believe that the creation of the Framework, and more recently the introduction of Integrated Care...
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Fundraising at home
1 min read |Last updated: 09/10/2023
Practical tips on getting started To kick off your fundraising efforts, we recommend creating a JustGiving page. It's your chance to tell the world how and why you're supporting Rethink Mental Illness with an inspirational story and amazing pictures. Set up your JustGiving page Ideas to get you inspired We've been blown away by some of the creative...
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Privacy
1 min read |Last updated: 27/08/2025
Privacy Policy. Rethink Mental Illness takes great care to preserve your privacy and safeguard any personal details you provide to us, whether on this website or by another means. This policy explains how Rethink Mental Illness uses your personal information, how we preserve your privacy and safeguard your information and details your rights regarding...
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