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If you have been diagnosed as insane, do not worry. Normality is well over-rated, and there are advantages with the madness. Besides, there are a lot of good contacts and a lot of interesting people to know. Believe me, I know. I can name hotels which are very helpful too. Meanwhile, here are a few useful contacts, being added to soon:
Zyra's MAD LINKS page (this page)
Official VOICES site now showing at : www.voicesforum.org.uk
Also see Unofficial VOICES FORUM page
Mad Pride (www.madpride.net)
rethink Severe Mental Illness
(Rethink - the new name for
the National Schizophrenia Fellowship NSF)
@EASE (was http://www.rethink.org/at-ease/ ) - by rethink
Saneline: 08457 678000 uk / +44 (0) 207 375 1002
Carers Line 0808 808 7777 uk
HyperGuide to the Mental Health Act
was www.hyperguide.co.uk/mha/
Schizophrenia - Open The Doors - site sponsored by the Lilly Drugs Company
Royal College of Psychiatrists
Brown's Psychology Resource www.psy.dmu.ac.uk/brown/
UKAN (United Kingdom Advocacy Network)
ECT Anonymous
Hearing Voices Network (which is different from VOICES FORUM)
National Perceptions Forum (which is THE SAME as the Voices Forum)
Pioneer
Consensus
(was http://communities.msn.co.uk/pioneerconsensus )
Schizophrenia Association of Great Britain
MIND 08457 660163 uk
Survivors
Network
(was http://www.survivors.network.ukgateway.net)
Reclaim Bedlam
Windhorse Associates
A non-profit organization in New England, USA, working on
recovery and helping folks reduce or get off of meds: "We
believe that recovery is possible and begin with loosening the
grip of the labels that categorize people"
(The link that was on This line has been removed at the request of the person whose site we were giving a link to)
Humunn Resources
Peter Munn's mental health resources site - Welcome back!
Gone again - was http://www.humunn-resources.com/
Depression Alliance 020 7633 0557 uk
Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance (DBSA)
(DBSA was previously known as the National Depressive and Manic-depressive
Association, or National DMDA)
www.self-injury.info
(www.self-injury.info used to link to www.selfinjury.freeserve.co.uk
)
Antipsychotics - the misconception
Mind-in-Manchester - featuring
Community Scare!
was www.mind-in-manchester.org.uk - another website presumably
hushed up by the establishment!
Eating Disorders Association (www.edauk.com)
Scarborough
Survivors
(http://www.scarboroughsurvivors.org.uk)
Epping Advocacy
(http://www.eppingadvocacy.co.uk)
Maca - www.maca.org.uk
Tamarand Unity Group
Shaping Our Lives Network
was www.solnetwork.org.uk
Help for Health
Trust
was www.hfht.org
BPD - Borderline Personality Disorder World
Schizophrenia.co.uk
Mindout.co.uk
Act Up! for
Mental Health.co.uk
(was www.actupformentalhealth.co.uk )
Bradford & Airedale Mental Health Advocacy Group
Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health
National
Electronic Library for Mental Health
(was http://www.nelnh.org)
The Maudsley
Page
(was http://www.io.p.kcl.ac.uk/main)
emental-health.com (gone)
Youth Access: 020 8772 9900
www.direct.gov.uk/mentalhealth
British government mental health awareness campaign! - GONE!
National Self-Harm Network: PO Box 16190 London NW1 3WW
Association of
Personality Disorders
was http://asperdis.org
Mental Health Act; by Mark Walton
Crisis Line 0800 501254 (centred on Yorkshire area)
Sandwell MIND
Bookshop
(Gone! Was http://www.sandwellmind.co.uk)
Cazie's Mental Health in the UK
(was http://www.geocities.com/cazie/ ) - perhaps
the ultimate Mad directory
Mental Health Training - was www.mhtraining.co.uk
Core Arts
was http://www.creativecommunities.org.uk/Register/core.html
Pam's House - Carers - Experts by Experience
Mental Health
SouthWest
(was http://www.mentalhealthsouthwest.org)
Distress Awareness Training Agency
Propaganda.2itb.com (gone)
Wokingham Mind
was www.wokinghammind.org.uk
Berkshire Mental
Health
was http://www.berkshire.nhs.uk/mentalhealth/
www.schizophrenia-recovery.com
CREATIVITY - the Literary Charity
www.orthomed.org.uk - OrthoMed - Orthomolecular Medicine
The NO FORCE
Campaign
( was http://pages.zdnet.com/cullyd/thenoforcecampaign/ )
Message about a Mental Health Bill Protest
Plus the PAGE OF COMMUNITY ZERO PROJECTS
Merseyside Fellowship of Depressives Anonymous
Art Works in
Mental Health
was www.artworksinmentalhealth.co.uk
Mental Health
Resource Centre - gone - was www.mhrc.cc links
(gone - was http://www.mhrc.cc/links/org.html )
Mary Frances Trust
(welcome back! was www.maryfrancestrust.org.uk and is again!)
OUTCRY
(was http://www.btinternet.com/~symon.price/outcry.html )
OUTCRY; a conference of direct user and survivor voices, speaking
out against prejudice and government proposals to increase
compulsion.
Outcry Conference.co.uk
gone - was www.outcryconference.co.uk
www.psychsearch.net/teenscreen.html
Flippinmental - was www.flippinmental.org
Mad as a Fish - aw! come on, that may be mad, and may be flippin', but it hardly replaces Flippinmental!
GooseberryPie.com
- Psi power
(was http://www.gooseberrypie.com/ )
www.sun-int.org - Service User Network International
Museum of The Mind - Bethlem Heritage (Bedlam)
Also, websites of people with personal experience:
Cully
(was http://pages.zdnet.com/cullyd/ )
Symon Price
(Editor of Mental Health Concerns and Issues) (was http://www.btinternet.com/~symon.price/
)
www.schizo.contactbox.co.uk (gone)
Plus the webpages of individuals within the Voices Forum
?
more to be added soon (but only at their own request)
!!!!
Down with the
proposed Mental Health Act in the UK! You can sign a petition at...
The Petition Site /link
The Co-Op Bank supports good causes in mental health, for example the Anti-stigma campaign. Well Done to The Co-Op Bank!
You don't have to be MAD to have an irrational fear. Phobia of something, whether it be spiders, feathers, peach fur, or anything else, is more usual than you might think, and there is a method to cure it. See How to cure a Phobia
Update: See the NO FORCE Campaign (was http://pages.zdnet.com/cullyd/thenoforcecampaign/)
Any bad links? Help MEND Them! (last checked some time around 2004/04/23)