mental health organisations

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Hearing Voices

www.hearing-voices.org

www.jacquidillon.org

Hearing Voices Network

c/o Sheffield Hearing Voices Network

Limbrick Day Service

Limbrick Road

Sheffield

S6 2PE

0114 2718210

nhvn@hotmail.co.uk

Hearing Voices Network are committed to helping people who hear voices. Our reputation is growing as the limitations of a solely medical approach to voices become better known. Psychiatry refers to hearing voices as 'auditory hallucinations' but our research shows that there are many explanations for hearing voices. Many people begin to hear voices as a result of extreme stress or trauma.

We offer information, support and understanding to people who hear voices and those who support them.

The aims of the network are:

To raise awareness of voice hearing, visions, tactile sensations and other sensory experiences
To give men women and children who have these experiences an opportunity to talk freely about this together
To support anyone with these experiences seeking to understand, learn and grow from them in their own way

We try to achieve our aims through these objectives:

Promoting, developing and supporting self-help groups
Organising and delivering training sessions for health workers and the general public
Making available a telephone line that gives information and help to people who experience hearing voices, seeing visions and tactile sensations
To give men, women and children who have these experiences an opportunity to talk freely about them
Produce four newsletters a year

Mind and Soul

www.mindandsoul.info

Mind and Soul Premier

22 Chapter Street

LONDON

SW1P 4NP

Mind and Soul is a non-denominational organisation exploring Christianity and Mental Health. Our vision is:

To provide high quality, accessible resources that engage with mental and emotional health, informed by the Christian theology and the latest scientific expertise.
To initiate and facilitate local support networks, empowering and engaging the local church and enhancing mental health services.
To enable people to meet with God and receive healing in the midst of emotional distress, presenting a holistic approach to mental health that incorporates the spiritual and the psychological.

The website has a number of interesting articles, books, and other resources on this subject. There is also an events calendar and a forum.

Please note, we are a small team whose aim is to equip the church and mental health services. We cannot give individual mental health advice.

First Signs

www.firstsigns.org.uk

info@firstsigns.org.uk

(NB Doesn’t accept emails from Hotmail or MSN accounts)

FirstSigns (Self-Injury Guidance & Network Support) is an online, user-led voluntary organisation, founded in 2002 to raise awareness about self-injury and provide information and support to people of all ages affected by self-injury. We recognise self-injury is a way of coping with distressing experiences and difficult emotions, and we encourage people to reflect on the issues behind their self-injury, and to develop and explore alternative coping mechanisms.

FirstSigns is managed and led by people with personal experience of self-injury, and we are non-judgemental, non-directional, and respectful of our members' and visitors' life experiences and perceptions. The FirstSigns website is the centre of our vibrant community, and provides access to all of our services, including our newsletter, book and training.

Breathing Space Scotland

www.breathingspacescotland.co.uk

Helpline: 0800 838 587

info@breathingspacescotland.co.uk

Free, confidential phone line you can call when you're feeling down.

Bristol Crisis Service for Women

www.selfinjurysupport.org.uk

PO Box 654

BRISTOL

BS99 1XH

TESS text and email support:

Monday-Friday 7-9 pm

Text: 07800 472908

Email: go to website and follow link to TESS

Office: bcsw@btconnect.com

Office: 0117 927 9600

Bristol Crisis Service for Women is a national organisation that supports girls and women up to 25 years old who self-injure.

We have carried out extensive research with women who self-injure. Through our work we have developed a deep understanding of the reasons individuals harm themselves and of the things they may need to help them overcome their self-injury.

We also have wide experience of the concerns and needs of workers in different settings and disciplines, and in developing good working practice.

What we do:

We run TSS text and email support for self-injury and self harm
We produce information and publications about self-injury
We offer talks and training courses to professionals
We support self-injury self-help groups

CALL Helpline Wales

www.callhelpline.org.uk

0800 132 737

Confidential listening and support service for people in Wales.

CAUSE (Carers and Users Support Enterprise)

www.cause.org.uk

028 9023 8284

Northern Ireland charity providing practical and emotional support to relatives and carers of people with mental illness.

Maytree

www.maytree.org.uk

020 7263 7070

A sanctuary for the suicidal: a place where, during a brief stay, a person will find the support that can alleviate despair and isolation.

Mental Health Care

www.mentalhealthcare.org.uk

Comprehensive information about mental illnesses.

Mental Health Foundation

www.mentalhealth.org.uk

020 7803 1101

mhf@mhf.org.uk

Uses research and practical projects to help people survive, recover from and avert mental health problems.

Mental Health Foundation Scotland

www.mentalhealth.org.uk/about-us/scotland/

0141 572 0125

scotland@mhf.org.uk

In Scotland we focus on achieving social change with a range of both local and European partners to influence policy and raise awareness of mental health. We have developed national mental health programmes in areas ranging from employment to the arts. We seek to achieve social change by gathering sound knowledge, developing partnerships and delivering programmes to influence policy and services specific to Scotland.

National Collaborating Centre for Mental Health

www.nccmh.org.uk

info@nccmh.org.uk

Offers accessible information on NICE mental health guidelines.

National Self-Harm Network

www.nshn.co.uk

PO Box 7264

Nottingham

NG1 6WJ

Support Helpline: 0800 622 6000

7.00 pm - 11.00pm Thursday-Saturday

6.10 pm - 10.30 pm Sunday