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Bury St Edmunds Citizens Advice Bureau is a generalist advice service providing free, confidential, impartial and independent advice and information on a wide range of subjects.
BBC web site listing community helplines in Suffolk.
Offers day centres and residential care for people with profound mental health difficulties.
Provide information, confidential advice and help in negotiating with others.
Providing free information for disabled people and their carers across Suffolk and East Cambridgeshire
Offering a free information, advice and advocacy service to residents of Ipswich and the surrounding area, that is both comprehensive and confidential.
The Citizens Advice service helps people resolve their legal, money and other problems by providing free, independent and confidential advice.
Optua provides a wide range of services for disabled people across Suffolk and beyond
West Suffolk Mind and East Suffolk Mind are now working in partnership to improve the mental health of people across the region.
A voluntary organisation providing details of counselling services in Suffolk
Suffolk Family Carers provides support for family carers of all ages.
Suffolk Gay & Lesbian Helpline
Provides useful information whether you're already on the scene and out or if you're worried about your sexuality and coming out.
Information about Suffolk Mental Health Partnerhsip Trust
Information about Suffolk Primary Care Trust
Information about Great Yarmouth and Waveney Primary Care Trust
National Organisations

 

 

 

 

 

Provides information about mental health related topics.
The Foundation promotes the nutritional wellbeing of society through the impartial interpretation and effective dissemination of scientifically based nutritional knowledge and advice.
Provides information, support and understanding via publications and an extensive range of services for people affected by depression.
Information and help on all aspects of eating disorders including Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa, Binge Eating Disorder and related eating disorders.
The Food and Mood Project is a web-based, user-led, dietary self-help service that provides resources for individuals and groups.
Human Givens is a new approach to emotional well being
THE INSTITUTE FOR OPTIMUM NUTRITION (ION) is an independent educational trust, established for the study, research and practice of Nutrition.
Internet Mental Health provides information on mental health free-of-charge. In 2005, they launched three new support groups for Bipolar Disorder, Depression, and Schizophrenia.
MDF is a BiPolar Organisation working to enable people affected by Bipolar disorder / manic depression to take control of their lives.
The Mental Health Foundation exists to help people survive, recover from and prevent mental health problems.
Working to improve mental health through biomedical research on mind, brain, and behavior.
Mind is the leading mental health charity in England and Wales
Provides information about drug treatments that are prescribed for mental health needs.
The National Phobics Society works to relieve and support those living with anxiety disorders by providing information, support and understanding via an extensive range of services.
Launched in March 1999, Primhe exists to help Primary Care Professionals (PCPs) and staff achieve and deliver the best standards of mental health care. As a charity with an independent voice, Primhe provides mental health support, services, resources, education and training.
A leading national mental health charity helping people affected by severe mental illness recover a better quality of life.
The Royal College of Psychiatrists is the professional and educational body for psychiatrists in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland.
Samaritans is available 24 hours a day to provide confidential emotional support for people who are experiencing feelings of distress or despair, including those which may lead to suicide
Sane is one of the UK's leading charities concerned with improving the lives of everyone affected by mental illness

Links to the website of Dr Nick Baylis, Cambridge University Well-being Scientist & Practising Psychologist.

YoungMinds is the national charity committed to improving the mental health of all children and young people.