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Organisations
The organisations listed below provide support and/or advice to people with mental illness, their relatives, families and carers. You will find a list of local organisations that can help you in the front of your telephone book or you can ring the Health Information Service free and in confidence during normal working hours on 0800 665544.
Alzheimer's Disease Society
Gordon House 10 Greencoat Place London SW1 1PH
Telephone: 0171 306 0606
Provides information, advice and practical help to people with dementia and their carers and families.
The Association for Post-Natal Illness
25 Jerdan Place London SW6 1BE
Telephone: 0171 386 0868
Offers information, advice and support to sufferers of post-natal mental illness and their relatives, including one-to-one telephone support.
Cruse - Bereavement Care
Cruse House 126 Sheen Road Richmond Surrey TW9 1UR
Telephone: 0181 940 4818 Counselling line: 0181 332 7227
Provides a nationwide service of counselling, information, advice and support for anyone bereaved by death.
Depression Alliance
PO Box 1022 London SE1 7QB
Telephone: 0171 721 7672
A self-help group for people with depression and provides information, self-help groups and a quarterly magazine.
Eating Disorders Association
Sackville Place 44 Magdalen Street Norwich Norfolk NR3 1JU
Helpline telephone: 01603 621414 Youth helpline telephone: 01603 765050
Offers help, support and information to people whose lives are affected by anorexia and bulimia nervosa.
Manic Depression Fellowship
8-10 High Street Kingston upon Thames Surrey KT1 1EY
Telephone: 0181 974 6550
Provides support, advice and information for people with manic depression, their families, friends and others who care.
MIND (The National Association for Mental Health)
Granta House 15-19 Broadway London E15 4BQ
Telephone: 0181 519 2122
Information lines: 0181 522 1728 (Greater London) 0345 660 163 (outside London)
A mental health charity which aims to raise public awareness of mental health issues and works for the rights of mentally ill people to lead an active and valued life in the community.
Nafsiyat
278 Seven Sisters Road Finsbury Park London N4 2HY
Telephone: 0171 263 4130
Provides advice and support to mentally ill people from black and other cultural and racial minorities.
The National Association for Premenstrual Syndrome (NAPS)
PO Box 72 Sevenoaks Kent TN13 1XQ
Telephone: 01732 741709
Provides practical advice about premenstrual syndrome for six hours each weekday, using trained volunteers.
National Schizophrenia Fellowship (NSF)
28 Castle Street Kingston upon Thames Surrey KT1 1SS
Telephone: 0181 547 3937 National Advice Service: 0181 974 6814
Provides support, help and information to people with a severe mental illness, their families and carers
Project for Advice, Counselling and Education (PACE)
34 Hartman Road London N7 9JL
Telephone: 0171 700 1323
Offers a counselling and therapy services for lesbians and gay men.
The Samaritans
10 The Grove Slough SL1 1QP
Telephone: 01753 532713 Helpline: 0345 909090
Exists to provide confidential, emotional support at any hour of the day or night to those people passing through personal crisis and in danger of taking their own lives.
SANE
199-205 Old Marylebone Road London NW1 5QP
Telephone: 0171 724 6520 Saneline: 0345 678000
SANE's national telephone helpline, SANELINE, offers support and a range of practical information to anyone coping with mental illness, and their carers, relatives or friends.
Triumph Over Phobia (TOP U.K.)
PO Box 1831 Bath BA1 3YX
Telephone: 01225 330353
Provides help, support and advice to people with phobias, obsessive compulsive disorder and associated panics.
WISH
15 Great St Thomas Apostle London EC4V 2BB
Telephone: 0171 329 2415
Offers advice and support to women referred to the psychiatric system, in particular the high security hospitals.