Suggestions for helfpul links from Feeling Depressed board

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Hi all

Following on from varoius discussions about this we have decided to add a disclaimer/helpful notice to all the feeling depressed pages, along the lines of "Please bear in mind that this board is not a substitute for expert help on depression ...etc etc" followed by a link to a sort of mini webguide of places where people could find expert help and advice. We can think of a couple of obvious ones like The Samaritans and Mind - but we're sure there are loads of others that mumsnetters might have come across.

If you could post any useful suggestions here over the course of the next week, we'll get the notice put up on Feeling depressed the following week.

Thanks in advance for your help.

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Here are a couple of organisations which you might consider manicdepression

depressionalliance

And a campaigning umbrella organisation which unites mental health users and professionals with 60 member organisations the mentalhealthfoundation

and many of the problems have been because of violent so a number for womans aid would be good.

Just to bump this up for others to post and add that (see my post below on Mental Health Foundation)I didn't mean campaigning just that in addition to bringing a lot of good information from a wide variety of organisations together with useful fact sheets there are also sections with details of legislation and ways to be inolved in the management of mental health and illness matters from professional, user, government and local care perspectives...

Association for Postnatal Illness

No Panic for help with OCD, anxiety disorders and panic attacks.

mind

www.ukdepression.co.uk

Thanks for these
Please keep them coming and we hope to have something up very soon.

I just wondered whether you had any further thoughts on this? Did you decide it was not such a good idea?

this one to support carers of people with depression/mental health problems.

Has anything happened with this?

Cheers

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why not have 'stickys' like many forums do

It would be good to keep at the top of a board a list of websites/ numbers/particularly good threads. that are relevant!?

Well done for the reminder - one of those things that got half done then lost on the midst of maternity madness - we're onto it again now, but do keep nagging if it doesn't appear!

thanks I think it will be useful

.....how's it going?

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We didn't get a whole lot of suggestions and although I emailled them all offering a link, I think only 1 or 2 got back to me! I did add these into the webguide but I don't think the new category is up yet - we were hoping to have a few more links in it.

So, any more suggestions would be fab. Please :)

I seem to be a bit of a solo interest in this! I shall see if I have some more to add later!

\link{http://www.human-nature.com/odmh/index.html\ online dictionary of mental health}

\link{http://www.psychnet-uk.com/\ psych-net uk}

\link{http://www.mind.org.uk/\ mind}

\link{http://www.sane.org.uk/\ sane}

\link{http://www.bbc.co.uk/health/conditions/mental_health/index.shtml\ bbc mental health}

\link{http://www.bacp.co.uk/\ british association for counselling and psychotherapy}

Thanks :)

I'll get lemonice onto it too ROFL

\link{http://www.clinical-depression.co.uk/index.htm\www.clinical-depression.co.uk}

\link{http://www.uncommonforum.com/index.php\uncommonforum.com}

\link{http://moodgym.anu.edu.au/flash_intro.asp\mood gym Australian CBT style online programme}

Couldn't find any contact details for "uncommonforum.com " Melsy.