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Useful Tips/Books/Research for MH Issues

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kizzie · 27/07/2012 21:38

To be added

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kizzie · 27/07/2012 21:43

www.themindgym.com/

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kizzie · 27/07/2012 21:43

www.selfinjurysupport.org.uk

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kizzie · 27/07/2012 21:44

moodgym.anu.edu.au/welcome

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kizzie · 27/07/2012 21:46

National Self Harm www.nshn.co.uk/

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kizzie · 27/07/2012 21:48

Peer support is a growing area - Gail Hornstwin's book 'Agnes's Jacket

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kizzie · 27/07/2012 21:50

seems arbours are restructuring:

www.arbourscentre.org.uk

there is a 24hr one in edinburgh:

www.edinburghcrisiscentre.org.uk/wordpress/index.php/services

and one in drayton pk london:

Drayton Park Womens Crisis House and Resource Centre
Address:
32 Drayton Park
London
N5 1PB
Email:
Send an enquiry
Website:
www.candi.nhs.uk
Phone:
020 7607 2777

Open:
24 hours.
Fax:
020 7607 3777

Details:

Residential mental health crisis project for women living in Camden and Islington who would otherwise be admitted to hospital. Short term crisis work linking women with community services, alternative and statutory. Children can be accommodated with their mothers.

also this one:

Maytree Respite Centre
Address:
72 Moray Road
London
N4 3LG
Email:
Send an enquiry
Website:
www.maytree.org.uk
Phone:
020 7263 7070
24 hour emergency line.
Open:
Open Mon-Sun 24 hours.
Fax:
020 7272 6863

Details:

Charity offering a one-off four night residential sanctuary to people in a suicidal crisis in a calm, safe house in north London. Provides time and space to talk, reflect and be befriended in a supportive, non-medical environment. Alcohol and drugs, apart from prescribed medication, are not permitted. Not a drop-in centre, contact by phone first. Email for volunteering: [email protected]

apologies for long post but these may help somebody in those areas.

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kizzie · 27/07/2012 21:55

Getting Unstuck: Unraveling the Knot of Attention, Depression and Trauma. it was free when I downloaded it, but I'd still pay the Amazon price for it.

www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B006P5M5MU/ref=redir_mdp_mobile?ref_=sr_1_1&s=digital-text&qid=1340947452&sr=1-1

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kizzie · 27/07/2012 21:56

I would like to see information about how to get people OFF the drugs as well through the NHS. Many many people have problems with this and the information about how to taper safely is not in the public domain and doctors are not given the information, Mind have recently produced some information:

Mind - Making sense of coming off psychiatric drugs

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kizzie · 27/07/2012 21:58

(obviously these arent my comments on these resources - i am just cutting and pasting from another thread)

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kizzie · 27/07/2012 22:01

www.actionforadvocacy.org.uk/

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kizzie · 27/07/2012 22:03

Rethink:

www.rethink.org/how_we_can_help/our_services/?shortcut=services

A couple of other books that I've come accross recently and found helpful:

"Psychosis: Stories of Recovery and Hope" by Hannah Cordle, Jane Fradglet, Jerome Carson and others

"Speaking Our Minds: An Anthology" Jim Read and Jill Reynolds

Both really inspiring collections of people's own experiences, positive and negative, and how they've survived, recovered and moved forwards in some very diverse ways.

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kizzie · 27/07/2012 22:06

Overcoming the stigma of MH issues:

www.time-to-change.org.uk/

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kizzie · 27/07/2012 22:07

www.mind.org.uk/assets/0000/0353/ward_watch_report.pdf

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kizzie · 27/07/2012 22:09

I have BPD. A couple of books I have found useful are Irrationality by Stuart Sutherland and Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell. Neither of them are particularly about mental health, but I suppose they explained to me a lot of the things that were confusing and upsetting me.

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kizzie · 27/07/2012 22:11

Cross Govt mental health strategy:

www.dh.gov.uk/en/Publicationsandstatistics/Publications/PublicationsPolicyAndGuidance/DH_123766

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kizzie · 27/07/2012 22:12

Mindfulness Training:

www.mbsr.co.uk/

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kizzie · 27/07/2012 22:16

Person centred therapy:

counsellingresource.com/lib/therapy/types/person-centred/

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kizzie · 27/07/2012 22:20

Wrt mindfulness

I found everything by Jon Kabat Zinn really brilliant but I'm not sure how you access it without buying.
The idea of turning kind attention toward problems is very useful for lots of people

Also Acceptance and Commitment Therapy can be very useful for some people and better for them than CBT

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kizzie · 27/07/2012 22:22

Just to point out again that I am not a fount of all (any Grin) knowledge. these are just collated posts from another thread. Sorry for lack of credits for recommendations.

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kizzie · 27/07/2012 22:23

Mindfulness:

London Buddhist Centre in Bethnal Green.

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kizzie · 27/07/2012 22:25

Tara Brach comes at mindfulness from a Buddhist perspective (where it originated) but you don't have to be a Buddhist to benefit from her approach

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Showtime · 27/07/2012 22:26

Thanks kizzie, for all the info, particularly about coming off drugs (my DB did this recently by simply stopping, as advised by psychiatrist .