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Jeremy's psychiatric links page
Antipsychiatry Coalition Various articles discussing the down side of psychiatry, news, a forum, and antipsychiatry links. www.antipsychiatry.org
Brief Therapy - an instant cure for mental illness! The most succinct description of it I've found. Most sites major on how to pay. At least this one mentions what it thinks it's going to do for you. Still sounds like a load of expensive bunk! www.brief-therapy.net
British Institute for Learning Disabilities www.bild.org.uk
Centre for Addiction and Mental Health www.camh.net
Chat rooms (mental health) A list of MH chat roooms. www.psychnet-uk.com/chat_rooms/mental_health_chatrooms.htm
Cochrane Reviews A drug review library - as used (and respected) by my psychiatrist. www.cochrane.org/reviews/index.htm
Data Protection Act for Social Services, by the Department of Health. www.doh.gov.uk/scg/datap.htm
Dept of Health links on mental health
Sadly, this doesn't appear to lead you to a copy of the Mental Health Act, 1983, which is a pity, because it is a truly ghastly document and well worth a read - check out the clause on 'removal of aliens'! www.doh.gov.uk/mentalhealth/
Drugs, an A-Z Not a very good one just a simple list - US sites are better. www.bbc.co.uk/health/mental/drugs_ab.shtml
Drugs database Quite a good one. Now seems to provide less info than it once did, but still good. www.rxlist.com
Foundation for People with Learning Disabilities www.learningdisabilities.org.uk
General Medical Council Check whether the person deciding your fate really is on the medical register by searching it here! www.gmc-uk.org
General Social Care Council Newly created body working towards codes of conduct and practice, etc. www.doh.gov.uk/gscc
Government Office for the East of England A great place to go shopping for funds for your charity - they just give it away! www.go-east.gov.uk
History of mental health - a timeline. By Andrew Roberts. Even mentions me starting this site, in 2002! www.mdx.ac.uk/www/study/mhhtim.htm
Institute of Mental Health Law (UK) www.imhl.com
Institute of Psychiatry www.iop.kcl.ac.uk/iop/index.stm
King's Fund Another place NORCI plagiarised lots of its SMEs report from - strong on Learning Disabilities. Check out, in particular, the Changing Our Days suite of books, which, although they all seem a little recycled themselves, were, at least, original to KF. www.kingsfund.org.uk, www.kingsfund.org.uk/publications/booksales/index.cfm?fuseaction=catalog.aTOz&l=c
Lawyers Search here for lawyers OK'd (special sect!) to do mental health work (Tribunals, etc) - get you or yours out! www.solicitors-online.com
Madnezz.com 'A place where mentally ill artists can show their work'. Includes poetry, prose, images, personal journals as well as chat facilities. www.madnezz.com
Manic Depression Fellowship www.mdf.org.uk
Manchester University Dept of Psychiatry (home of the Mental Health Czar, Prof. Louis Appleby) Check out its links section - quite useful. www.man.ac.uk/~mdphwnj/home.html
Mental Health Act, a hypertext guide www.hyperguide.co.uk/mha/overview.htm
Mental Health Act, another hypertext guide, but with the actual text of the Act It's all there, but slow to use! - And the PDF version doesn't work, either! www.markwalton.net/guidemha/index.asp
Mental Health Act, a guide to rights, by the Rethink (formerly 'National Schizophrenia Fellowship') See bits on rights to Section 17 leave, S117 aftercare. www.rethink.org/information/legal/mha/01_mha_01.html
Mental Health Act remedial order Alterations to the MHA made to accommodate the Human Rights Act (like that should be necessary!) - especially, shifting onus of proof at Mental Health Review Tribunals (ie: getting out). www.hmso.gov.uk/si/si2001/20013712.htm
Mental Health Act Commission - law, rights, appeals etc www.mhac.trent.nhs.uk
Mental Health Act Commission guidance notes Mainly guidance for nurses on application of the Act, etc. May be out of date. www.hyperguide.co.uk/mhac/index.htm
Mental Health Foundation www.mentalhealth.org.uk
Mental Health Media www.mhmedia.com
Mental Magazine - a mental health (web) magazine created by Rosemary Moore. There is an associated discussion group: Mental Magazine discussion group. www.mentalmagazine.co.uk, www.groups.yahoo.com/group/mentalmagazine
Meridian East - Formerly called NORCI (Norfolk Rehabilitation & Community Initiatives) but old link still works, too. Not much cop, frankly - try emailing their clients - it'll never work! www.meridian-east.org
Mind - UK mental health charity www.mind.org.uk/index.asp
Mind's Link page www.mind.org.uk/information/links.htm
Mind Out for Mental Health Dept of Health's 'Watch out! Loony!' campaign. Does actually have some useful material, despite its appalling name. www.mindout.net
Norfolk Disability Information Service (NDIS) (via BBC) www.bbc.co.uk/norfolk/your/access/disability/index.shtml
NHS Direct The government's online medical help service - or, ring 08 45 46 47. www.nhsdirect.nhs.uk
Norfolk Mental Health Care NHS Trust and Norfolk Mental Health Care NHS Trust Pharmacy site Info on a selection of drugs. www.nmhct.nhs.uk, www.nmhct.nhs.uk/pharmacy/
Norfolk Rehabilitation and Community Initiatives - Has changed its name to 'Meridian East' - but same link still works. Not much cop, frankly - try emailing their clients - it'll never work! www.norci.org
Symon Price's web site Mental health site run by Symon Price - not fully functional at time of update. Symon Price's links page - does work and is extensive! www.btinternet.com/~symon.price, www.btinternet.com/~symon.price/links.html
RecoverYourLife.com User group site for those that self harm - chat, forums, advice, etc - about 6,000 members. www.recoveryourlife.com
Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health Good general provider of info. Also discussion forum. www.scmh.org.uk
SANE - UK charity Generally thought to favour 'the good of the public' over 'the good of the patient'. Also, Stephen Fry is patron. Check ads for two faces, and he reads Harry Potter stories, too! www.sane.org.uk
(Norfolk, Mental Health) Social Services www.norfolk.gov.uk/social/mentalhealth/
Supported Employment Consortium of America The place NORCI plagiariased page after page of its SMEs report from. www.vcu.edu/rrtcweb/sec
talk-depression.net Depression forum similar to RecoveryYourLife.com, newer, so less busy at time of adding link, and less focus on self-harm. www.talk-depression.net
Wildestcolts.com - 'The wildest colts make the best horses'. An anti-biomedical industry web site run by Dr John Breeding, a psychologist, of Austin, Texas. Much youth work, esp. ADHD. www.wildestcolts.com
www.yellowcard.gov.uk Report side-effects of your medicines to the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) - 'cos no-one else will! Also by phone - 0808 100 3352 www.yellowcard.gov.uk