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Affective Disorders
Depressives Anonymous
36 Chestnut Avenue, Beverley, North Humberside,
HU17 9QU.
Tel: 01482-860619
A national self-help association with local groups and open meetings.
Depression Alliance
(Registered Charity 278532)
PO Box 1022
London
SE1 7QB
Tel: 0171 721 7672 (answering machine only)
The Manic-Depression Fellowship
8-10 High Street, Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey, KT1 1EY
Tel: 081-974-6550
Fax: 0181-974-6600
Manic-Depression Fellowship (North-West)
Workspace,
23 New Mount Street,
Manchester, M4 4DE.
Tel: 0161-953-4105
The MD Fellowship educates the public about bipolar illness and publishes its own journal and newsletters. It runs self-help groups, open meetings and a pen-friend scheme. Its patron is Spike Milligan.
The Samaritans,
10, The Grove,
Slough, SL1 1QP.
Tel: 01753-532713.
Fax: 01753-819004. E-Mail jo@samaritans.org
The Samaritans has nearly 200 local branches manned by some 23,000 volunteers and takes nearly two and a half million calls for help per year.
Time Out Scotland
Scotland UK
Charity
c/o GCVS
11 Queens Crescent
Glasgow
G4 9AS
Support for past and present sufferers of depression
MIND,
Granta House,
15-17 Broadway,
London E15 4BQ
Tel: 0181 519 21222
Post-natal depression
Association for Post-Natal Illness,
25 Jerdan Place, Hammersmith,
London, SW6 1BE
Tel: 0171-386-0868
Meet-a-Mum Association:
www.mama.org.uk
Waterside Centre, 26 Avenue Rd, South Norwood, London SE25 4DX, Tel: 020
8771 5595, Fax: 020 8239 1153. Postnatal Depression Information and
Helpline: 020 8768 0123 (Monday to Friday, 7pm to 10pm).
Launched in 1979 by Esther Rantzen and Woman magazine MAMA aims to alleviate feelings of loneliness and depression peri-natally. It is essentially a charity that coordinates a series of self-help groups.
National Childbirth Trust,
Alexandra House,
Oldham Terrace,
London, W3 6NH.
Tel:0181-992-8637
Seasonal Affective Disorder
SAD Association (Seasonal Affective Disorder)
P O Box 989.
London, SW7 2PZ.
(Please enclose SAE)
Bereavement
CRUSE - Bereavement Care
Cruse House,
126 Sheen Road,
Richmond,
Surrey, TW9 1UR
Tel: 0181-940-4818
Fax: 0181-940-7638
Cruse has 94 local branches and provides individual and group counselling. Cruse has a 'Bereavement Line' which provides a direct link to a counsellor: Mon-Fri from 9.30am to 5.00pm Tel: 0181-332-7227
Foundation for the Study of Infant Death,
Cot Death Research and Support,
35, Belgrave Square,
London, SW1X 8QB
Tel: 0171-235-1721
The Network
The Network is an international membership, technical assistance and consultancy organisation for people and organisations who are committed to achieving and taking the movement of innovative community mental health care forward into practical and effective service solutions that will provide a better quality of life for service users, their relatives and friends. Solutions include treatments that improve people's life situations; adequate housing, employment, social networks, community participation and integration.
Further detailed information from:
The International Mental Health Network Ltd
71 Fentham Road
Erdington
Birmingham
B23 6AL
United Kingdom
Tel +44 (0)121 623 5875
Tel/FAX/Ans +44 (0)121 623 5878
email Piers Allott, 100543.2171@Compuserve.com
