A-Z Advice topic List
Don't know where to start? Our A-Z list of topics can help you find the page you are looking for.
Learn more about conditions
- Anxiety disorders
- Bipolar disorder
- Borderline personality disorder (BPD)
- Cannabis and mental health
- Depression
- Dissociation and dissociative identity disorder (DID)
- Drugs, alcohol and mental health
- Eating disorders
- Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD)
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
- Psychosis
- Schizoaffective disorder
- Schizophrenia
Learn more about symptoms
Medications
Treatment and support
- 100 Ways to Support Recovery
- Care home fees - who pays?
- Care Programme Approach (CPA)
- Complementary and alternative treatments for mental health
- Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)
- Empowering people - coaching for mental health recovery
- Going into hospital
- GPs - What to expect from your doctor
- Housing options
- NHS Mental Health Teams (MHTs)
- Recovery
- Social care - Charging for non-residential services
- Social Care - Direct payments
- Social Care Assessment Under the Care Act 2014
- Social Care Care and support planning
- Staying well with bipolar
- Supported Housing
- Talking therapies
Wellbeing & physical health
- Being active and mental health
- Black Asian and Minority Ethnic mental health
- Flu vaccination and severe mental illness
- How can I improve my sleep?
- LGBTplus mental health
- Long COVID and mental health
- Managing type 2 diabetes
- Preventing cancer
- Severe mental illness and physical health checks
- Smoking and mental health
- Spirituality, religion and mental illness
- Stress - How to cope
- Studying and mental illness
- Teeth, eyes and feet
- What's reasonable at work? A guide to rights at work for people living with mental illness
Mental Health Laws
- Community Treatment Orders
- Discharge from the Mental Health Act
- Discrimination and mental health
- Mental capacity and mental illness
- Mental Health Act 1983
- Nearest Relative
- Section 117 aftercare
- Section 135 of the Mental Health Act
- Section 136 of the Mental Health Act
- Section 35 of the Mental Health Act
- Section 36 of the Mental Health Act
- Section 37 41 of the Mental Health Act
- Section 37 of the Mental Health Act - Hospital orders
- Section 38 of the Mental Health Act - Interim hospital orders by the criminal courts
- Section 47 of the Mental Health Act
- Section 48 49 of the Mental Health Act
- Your Rights When Detained Under the Mental Health Act – Downloadable Guides
Rights and restrictions
- Access to health records
- Advocacy
- Challenging cuts
- Clinical negligence
- Complaining about the NHS or social services
- Confidentiality
- Criminal convictions
- Criminal record checks
- Driving and mental illness
- Legal advice - Getting help from a solicitor
- NHS Treatment - your rights
- Planning for your care - Advance statements and advance decisions
- Second opinions
- Work and mental illness
Police, courts and prison
- Appropriate adult
- Complaints about criminal courts
- Complaints about prison
- Complaints about the police
- Complaints about the Probation Service
- Criminal courts and mental health
- Healthcare in prison
- Police stations - what happens when you are arrested
- Prison - Going in
- Prison - Planning for release
- Prisoners - suicidal thoughts
- Prisoners and self-harm
- Prisons - How are they run and what can I do there?
Carers hub
- Carer's assessment - Under the Care Act 2014
- Confidentiality and Information Sharing - For Carers, Friends and Family
- Does mental illness run in families?
- Getting help in a crisis
- Going into hospital - for carers, friends and relatives
- How you can help guide
- Inquests
- Planning for the future - your relative's care and support
- Respite care - Breaks for carers
- Responding to unusual behaviour
- Suicidal thoughts - How to support someone
- Suicide - Coping with loss
- Supporting someone with a mental illness