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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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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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Driving and mental illness
Advice and information |1 min read |Last updated: 08/05/2025
You must tell the DVLA if you a certain mental illness or if your medication affects your driving. This section explains how and when to do this.
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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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Gloucestershire Support After Suicide Service
Services and Groups |Last updated: 12/07/2024
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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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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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Cookie policy
1 min read |Last updated: 24/02/2025
Cookie policy This Cookie Policy (“Policy”) sets out how Rethink Mental Illness (“we”, or “us”) uses and categorizes cookies and other tracking technologies through our website (www.rethink.org). We are committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected, and this website respects the extent of your consent given via the cookie banner which is displayed...
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Other Services and Organisations
Services and Groups |1 min read |Last updated: 10/01/2025
We have included information about a range of other useful services, resources and organisations that may be of use to you. Counselling and bereavement support for adults Sunflowers Suicide Support – Gloucestershire based charity providing support following the loss of a loved one to suicide. Sunflowers offer a range of both practical and emotional...
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Privacy
1 min read |Last updated: 16/04/2025
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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“A men’s football peer support group helps me thrive” – James’ story
Last updated: 13/10/2023
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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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Charity warns rising demand for support signals a looming mental health crisis, urges people to seek support if they’re struggling
1 min read |Last updated: 27/10/2020
Over 2.3 million people visited rethink.org for advice and information in the six months after Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced that the country would go into lockdown to prevent the spread of coronavirus. Demand for advice and information doubles compared to the six-month period that preceded the pandemic. Rethink Mental Illness has experienced...
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