Are there any support networks for relatives of people with mental health problems?

Question

UK based please, or if abroad, interent based.

I mean depression etc.

Answer 1

In fact, if you video taped yourself and /or others and watch it
you will learn that everyone is mentall.
Who can solve a mental issue when we are all mentall

Answer 2

the following organisations should be able to help or point you in the right direction:- Mind, Rethink, Department of Health, Caring 4 Carers, Depression Alliance, Mental Health Foundation, NHS (try NHS direct), and do a local search from your local mental health trust for more local support groups, Im sure there is loads on the the net. The caring for carers search should show something. Good luck. x

Answer 3

MIND are excellant for family advice and support,
About Mind




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.

Answer 4

If your e in the uk Mind as has said before or Rethink who work a lot with Carers and have local support groups. Where I live in N. Ireland there is a Carers reference group which set up in response to the Mental Health Review. England and Scotland have both had their reviews so you could ask around at your local mental ealth resource centre or Service Users group to see if there is a local active group of carers in your area .

I am both a service User and a Carer adn so is my partner.We dont tend to go to carers group meetings even though we qualify as they tend to spend a lot of time
being depressed or anxious about the situation their family member is in and it s hard to cope with that negativity.
There is a problem between carers adn service users in that sometimes we find there is an edge between us around caring or the freedom to be in recovery on our own terms.

Carers sometimes have more fear about us than we do for ourselves and so we get locked into strange relationships that keep service users in a victim position unable to self help - it is an uneasy balance to know when to care and when to let go..

Answer 5

it is not easy for a person with mental illness to recover without the support of his or her family, friends and relatives and the doctor and hospital personnel.

heard there is a support group in some churches.

the best way so far for me to recover from mental illness is to take medicine regularly and talk with my family members about the problems arising.

but to recover also needs the patient himself or herself to analyse carefully and prudently the state of his or her subconsciousness and consciousness.

it may be very hard to analyse the above but at least once he or she knows he or she might be relapsing from the illness, he can quickly find a solution example, take a cold shower and then after that take his or her medications etc.

i have mental illness for over 10 years and every now and then i look at myself carefully at intervals to prevent relapse. it is my responsibilities to take care of myself as i grow older.

at the same time, i am taking chinese medicine in the afternoon while taking the hospital medicine in the night.

really hope to cure myself 1 day but if i ever is destined to be a bachelor in the future, i will focus on being a happy bachelor else, there might just be a miracle in the future.

good luck!

mercury of love

Answer 6

Mind, the Mental Health Fellowship and of cause if you have self help groups near you then that to

Answer 7

MIND are a support network for people/relitives with mental health issuse in the uk type MIND into a search engine.

Answer 8

there is a mental health charity called MIND (i have helped with some fundraising they were doing in the past) they help mental health sufferers and their famillies.. In the UK...www.Mind.co.uk may be the website..good luck x

Answer 9

in australia and in this instance tasmania, there was a respite centre for carers of 'accident patients' who now have various types of brain or mental dissorder. It was partly or wholey funded through the ...excuse any error....accident insurance company. That is the limit of my knowledge of the company and centre other than i was employed by the centre to deliver weekly, basic carpentry, woodworking, leatherworking skills to the participants while the carers had some free time. The centre was called HEADWAY NORTH, in Launceston

Answer 10

mind is excellent,and there is a saying that goes,but for the grace of god do i.......
many people are still scared when they here someone has lost there mind or gone off the rails a little. don't know your relationship with the person your talking about,but be firm patient and compassionate,last but not least LOVE......... i have been one of these people,been there bought the T shirt.........
good luck

Answer 11

If the person you care for has a care co coordinator ask them to refer you to the carer support team. They will have information on local support groups. They may be able to offer you one to one support to talk through your concerns and give you information on a carers assessment.