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A Wellbeing Guide to Mental Health Services in Bradford & Airedale

Mental Health Affects everybody...

Mental Health is about how we cope with life's stresses and strains. Everybody has days when smail things feel overwhelming and ned a little extra help and support.

There are a number of factors which affect mental health. These include social, economic, environmental and biological components. Other factors are about being able to talk about problem and find right support.

The purpose of the Wellbeing Guide is to make finding support easier. It lists over one hundred services in the Bradford district which may be able to help

To view the Wellbeing Guide to Mental Health Services in Bradford & Airedale click here

Mind in Bradford is an independent organisation affiliated to Mind (National Association for Mental Health) that works towards a better life for people experiencing mental ill health and distress. We operate both a drop-in service known as the Mind Drop-in and a telephone helpline service known as Guide-Line.

Mind in Bradford website

Together are a leading national charity working for wellbeing: that means we support people with mental health needs to get what they want from life and to feel happier.

Why not visit the Together website, click here

The Mental Health Foundation is a leading UK charity that provides information, carries out research, campaigns and works to improve services for anyone affected by mental health problems, whatever their age and wherever they live

Mental Health Foundation, a UK charity for everyones mental health website.

The Mental Health Alliance is a coalition of 75 organisations working together to secure a better mental health legislation. It is the broadest coalition in the mental health world - a unique alliance of:

• user groups,
• psychiatrists,
• social workers,
• nurses,
• psychologists,
• lawyers,
• voluntary associations,
• religious groups,
• research bodies, and
• carers’ associations.

We believe that the Government must ensure that its proposals for reform of mental health legislation are both fair and workable.

Mental Health Alliance website

Mind is the leading mental health charity in England and Wales. We work to create a better life for everyone with experience of mental distress by:

• advancing the views, needs and ambitions of people with mental health problems
  
• challenging discrimination and promoting inclusion
  
• influencing policy through campaigning and education
  
• inspiring the development of quality services which reflect expressed need and diversity
  
• achieving equal rights through campaigning and education.

In all our work we promote our values: informed, determined, diversity, integrity and partnership.

Mental health problems can affect anyone, rich or poor, young or old, shattering the lives of those affected and the lives of the people close to them. One in four of us will experience a mental health problem at some point in our lives. Each year more than 250,000 people are admitted to psychiatric hospitals and over 4,000 people take their own lives.

Mind (National Association for Mental Health) website

Rethink, the leading national mental health membership charity, works to help everyone affected by severe mental illness recover a better quality of life.

Rethink website

If you hear voices HVN can help - we are committed to helping people who hear voices. Our reputation is growing as the limitations of a solely medical approach to voices become better known. Psychiatry refers to hearing voices as 'auditory hallucinations' but our research shows that there are many explanations for hearing voices. Many people begin to hear voices as a result of extreme stress or trauma.

We offer information, support and understanding to people who hear voices and those who support them, click here

MindFreedom International (MFI) vision: Unite in a spirit of mutual cooperation for a nonviolent revolution of mental health human rights and choice.

MFI is an independent nonprofit coalition defending human rights and promoting humane alternatives for mental and emotional well being, click here

Samaritans provides confidential non-judgemental emotional support, 24 hours a day for people who are experiencing feelings of distress or despair, including those which could lead to suicide.

Whatever you're going through, whether it's big or small, don't bottle it up. We are here for you if you're worried about something, feel upset or confused, or just want to talk to someone.

We offer our service by telephone, email, letter and face to face in most of our branches, to visit our website, click here

Samaritans is available to anyone in the UK and Ireland. If you live outside of the UK and Ireland, visit www.befrienders.org to find your nearest helpline.