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Physical activity and mental health - Benefits, barriers, and practical tips
Advice and information |1 min read |Last updated: 23/01/2026
Learn how physical activity can support mental health, improve wellbeing, and reduce symptoms of mental illness. Includes benefits, risks, motivation tips, accessible activities, free or low-cost options, and support.
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Schizophrenia
Advice and information |1 min read |Last updated: 16/01/2026
This section covers what schizophrenia is, what the symptoms are and how you can get treatment.
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Suicidal thoughts - How to cope
Advice and information |1 min read |Last updated: 16/01/2026
This section may help you if you are dealing with suicidal thoughts, feelings, or intentions. It has ideas you can try to help you. It explains how you can stay safe, and how you can get support.
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Response to Call for Evidence – Draft Mental Health Bill 2022
Campaigns and policy |1 min read |Last updated: 10/09/2024
Response to Call for Evidence – Draft Mental Health Bill 2022 The draft Mental Health Bill has been released for consultation. Rethink Menal Illness submitted the below written evidence to the Mental Health Bill Committee who are undertaking pre-legislative scrutiny. About Rethink Mental Illness. 1. Rethink Mental Illness is the charity for people severely...
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Constituencies that Care
Campaigns and policy |1 min read |Last updated: 10/09/2024
Constituencies that Care Why voters are looking to the next election for improvements to the nation’s mental health Imagine a cause that has strong public support, would ease the burden on the NHS, embolden our economy, and improve the lives of millions of people in the process.Mental health has never been a higher public priority than it is today,...
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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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Mental Health First Aid - Youth
1 min read |Last updated: 20/06/2023
Mental Health First Aid (Youth) This course qualifies you as a Youth Mental Health First Aider, giving you: An in-depth understanding of young people’s mental health and factors that affect wellbeing Practical skills to spot the triggers and signs of mental health issues Confidence to reassure and support a young person in distress Enhanced interpersonal...
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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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Ensuring uptake of COVID-19 vaccinations among people with severe mental illness
Campaigns and policy |1 min read |Last updated: 21/08/2025
Ensuring uptake of COVID-19 vaccinations among people with severe mental illness – barriers, enablers and recommendations. 1. Introduction The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) has placed people with severe mental illness (defined in this case as “Individuals with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder, or any mental illness that causes...
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