Resources and Self-help

Anxiety UK works to relieve and support those living with anxiety disorders by providing information, support and understanding through an extensive range of services. These include national helplines that are staffed by volunteers with personal experience of anxiety, access to talking therapies, and a community of support and advice.

Beat offers helplines, information and networks of self-help groups for adults and young people with eating disorders.

Bipolar UK provides a range of services to enable people affected by bipolar and associated illnesses to take control of their lives. They provide information and advice as well as self-help groups and mentoring schemes. They also work in partnership with research organisations and campaign for new developments to tackle key issues.

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The Mental Health Foundation is committed to reducing the suffering caused by mental health difficulties. They do this by carrying out research; developing practical solutions for better mental health services; campaigning to reduce stigma and discrimination; promoting better mental health for us all.

Rethink Mental Illness provides expert, accredited advice and information to everyone affect by mental health problems. They offer practical help on issues such as the Mental Health Act, community care, welfare benefits, debt, criminal justice and carer’s right. They also offer general help on living with mental illness, medication, care and treatment.

Mind offer many helpful services including helplines, drop-in centres, counselling, befriending, advocacy, employment and training schemes. They provide information and advice on a wide range of issues relating to mental health.

NIMH aim to transform the understating and treatment of mental health difficulties. This website provides information on a wide range of mental health problems and on research into mental health.

Whatever you need to know about booting your mood, coping with stress, anxiety or depression or simply improving your overall emotional wellbeing, the NHS Choices Moodzone is here to help. It offers practical, useful information, interactive tools and videos to support you on your way to feeling better.

No Panic helps people who suffer from panic attacks, phobias, obsessive compulsive disorders and other related anxiety disorders. They specialise in self-help through recovery groups and one to one mentoring over the telephone.

OCD Action provides support and information for people with obsessive compulsive disorder and related disorders such as body dysmorphic disorder, compulsive skin picking and trichotillomania. They work to raise awareness of the disorder amongst the public and strive to secure a better deal for people with OCD.

SANE aims to raise mental health awareness and provide emotional support, practical help and information. It works to combat stigma, increase understanding and initiate research into causes, treatment and experience of mental illness.