Helpful Links

Whether you help look after someone or are simply interested in finding out more about caring and the support available for those who care for a family member or friend.

www.anguscarers.org.uk

AIA ethos is based on their core principles and standards that enshrine a person's right to be involved and consulted about their care and treatment options, involved in any decisions affecting their life and be treated with dignity and respect.

www.angusindadvocacy.org

beat is the leading UK charity for people with eating disorders and their families. beat is the working name of the Eating Disorders Association.

www.b-eat.co.uk

To provide information, support and advice for people affected by bipolar disorder/manic depression and all who care; To promote Self-Help throughout Scotland; To inform and educate about the illness and the organisation.

www.bipolarscotland.org.uk

Anyone can feel down or depressed from time to time. It helps to get some Breathing Space. You are not alone and talking about how you feel is a positive first step in getting help.

www.breathingspacescotland.co.uk

Depression Alliance can assist people affected by depression.

www.depressionalliance.org

Our main aim is to improve the way in which we, as users of mental health services, are treated by campaigning to improve the rights, services and treatments of people with mental health problems.

www.hug.uk.net

The website of the Mental Health Foundation outlines the charitys work in research, policy, service development and service user involvement. The site offers information and publications to download on research, good practice in services.

www.mentalhealth.org.uk

There main focus is to reform people's concepts and ideas about what it means to have a mental health problem.

www.mentalhealthintheuk.co.uk

Mind helps people take control of their mental health. We do this by providing high-quality information and advice, and campaigning to promote and protect good mental health for everyone.

www.mind.org.uk

This gives you a study of Stress reduction techniques.

www.mindout.net

Moodjuice is an Internet site developed by Choose Life Falkirk and the Adult Clinical Psychology Service, NHS Forth Valley. The site is designed to offer information, advice to those experiencing troublesome thoughts, feelings and actions.

www.moodjuice.scot.nhs.uk

As well as its role as a membership organisation and service provider, NSF (Scotland) is closely involved in a number of activities which promote greater wellbeing and quality of life for people affected by schizophrenia and other mental illness.

www.nsfscot.org.uk

SAMH campaigns for the development of legislation, policy and practice that is based on the real life experiences of people with mental health and related problems.

www.samh.org.uk

SDC works with others to create the conditions and opportunities for everyone to enjoy mental health and wellbeing, to draw attention to inequalities in mental health and to seek to address these inequalities

www.sdcmh.org.uk

The Government aims to help people to sustain and improve their health, especially in disadvantaged communities, ensuring better, local and faster access to health care.

www.scotland.gov.uk

see me is Scotlands national campaign to end stigma and discrimination of mental ill health. We know that minds are changed with pictures as much as words. Our annual photo competition brings together your pictures alongside your thoughts about mental

www.seemescotland.org

See Me is Scotlands national campaign to end the stigma and discrimination of mental ill-health. We are an alliance of five mental health organisations and fully funded by the Scottish Government.

www.seemescotland.org.uk

People who experience mental health problems and those around them should expect recovery. The values and principles which underpin the recovery experience should form the basis of how, as a society, we approach mental health issues.

www.scottishrecovery.net

They take action nationally and locally to build skills, improve knowledge and awareness of 'what works' to prevent suicide, improve opportunities to prevent premature loss of life and provide hope and optimism for the future.

www.chooselife.net

This gives you information on different Mental Health challenges.

www.rcpsych.ac.uk

They work in partnership with mental health and related services to ensure that service users get every opportunity to contribute positively to changes in the services that serve them and wider society.

www.voxscotland.org.uk