Rethink Mental Illness

Rethink Mental Illness improves the lives of people severely affected by mental illness through a network of local groups and services, expert information, and successful campaigning. Their goal is to make sure everyone affected by severe mental illness has a good quality-of-life.

Rethink Mental Illness' services include advocacy, employment and training, mental health services in prisons, nursing and residential care and carer support. They also provide housing services (including Lindsay House in Northampton) and some support groups (visit their website and enter your postcode to find more groups).

The Rethink Mental Illness website features extensive advice and information about mental illnesses, rights and restrictions, and living with mental illness. There is also a Carers' Hub.

The Rethink Mental Illness Advice Service (0808 801 0525)  offers practical help on issues such as the Mental Health Act, community care, welfare benefits, living with mental illness, and medication. This is not a crisis service, and they can only usually give advice where the person experiencing mental illness is aged 18+ and lives in England. The Advice Line is normally open Monday-Friday, 9.30am-4pm. They are happy to receive Relay UK calls, and have a translation service called Language line.

Rethink provide a webchat facility between 10am and 1pm on their advice pages on the website. 

Rethink Mental Illness is a registered charity (no. 271028).

Resources:

• Rethink Mental Illness - Anxiety Disorders Factsheet (PDF 651KB)
• Rethink Mental Illness - Bipolar Disorder Factsheet (PDF 786KB)
• Rethink Mental Illness - Depression Factsheet (PDF 781KB)
• Rethink Mental Illness - Eating Disorders Factsheet (PDF 729KB)
• Rethink Mental Illness - Obsessive Compulsive Disorder / OCD Factsheet (PDF 633KB)
• Rethink Mental Illness - Personality Disorders Factsheet (PDF 701KB)
• Rethink Mental Illness - Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Factsheet (PDF 725KB)
• Rethink Mental Illness - Psychosis Factsheet (PDF 667KB)
• Rethink Mental Illness - Self-Harm Factsheet (PDF 778KB)