| Last updated: 26/11/8 |
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 (prescription), 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 (prescription) database Quite a good one. Now seems to provide less info than it once did, but still good. www.rxlist.com
Erowid guide to psychoactives (non-prescription and abused prescription). General unofficial guide to psychoactives. Provides info on basics, effects, images, health, law (US), doses, and chemistry. An extensive dictionary of drug slang. A guide to drugs by principal drug name, rather than by alphabetical slang name. Also sections on mind, spirit,
freedom, law, arts and culture. Note that the views of the author(s) of the Erowid site do not reflect mine. www.erowid.org
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
Manic Depression Fellowship www.mdf.org.uk
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 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 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
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 and Waveney Mental Health Care NHS Trust and Norfolk and Waveney 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
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
(Norfolk, Mental Health) Social Services Now seems to have been integrated into Adult Social Services www.norfolk.gov.uk/social/mentalhealth/
Sane Mental health charity. www.sane.org.uk
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