Sane Mental Health Charity

Twice as many girls are being treated for self-harm in hospitals than 20 years ago.
SANE has been warning about this epidemic for many years.

DEBATE - Should there be guidance telling parents not to give smartphones to under 11s?

“When others are enjoying the sunshine, I am walking around in a black world. This makes me feel 10 times worse.
"Others are making plans for enjoying the sunshine and I am just trying to get through each minute."

Here are some of our supporters proudly wearing their Black Dog pin badges. Get your own by donating £5. Simply text SANE3, plus your name and address, to 70500.

The latest research suggests students are now more likely to take their own lives than young people in the general population.
What more can be done to support students?

Here is an in-depth article by The Guardian about the thousands of new mothers who are going untreated for mental health problems because specialist NHS care for them is so limited.

The inclusion of people with mental health conditions in the blue badge scheme has been hailed as a "massive step" forward.
Will this help you?

"The first time I heard my depression described as ‘medication-resistant,’ I was in hospital following a mental health crisis.
"Those two little words overwhelmed me with a sense of hopelessness."
Lucy shares her experience of treatment-resistant depression and speaks to others in this powerful article. Can you relate?

Mental health campaigner Natasha Devon writes about psychosis in this blog for SANE.

Plans to employ extra staff to support mental health in schools have been unveiled, but the time frame for the scheme has come under fire.
Is action by the government being taken quickly enough?

"Despite it being one of the most common eating disorders in the UK, binge eating disorder often goes unmentioned.
"This is because people don’t recognise the severity of it compared to other eating disorders, due to misconceptions."

As we have been warning for years, there are simply not enough local psychiatric beds to meet the needs of patients in crisis.

"The fact of the matter is that we haven't got the help in place to support these children and there's a long way to go to not only catch up, but to get ahead."
Do you agree?

Is this a step in the right direction?
What more needs to be done to teach children about mental health?

An ex-soldier or sailor dies by suicide every 11 days.
However, the UK keeps NO official records of the number of suicides by ex-servicemen and women.

We have updated our Facebook cover photo with this emotive work of art by a SANE supporter.
To view more, visit our Image Gallery: http://www.sane.org.uk/resources/picture_ gallery

A new report finds more than half of people with mental health problems have serious difficulties using the phone to carry out basic admin like calling banks or energy companies.
Has this affected you? Let us know your experiences.

In a speech to The Royal College of Psychiatrists, Lady Hale acknowledged that judges themselves may have contributed to a “culture of blame, shame and fear”.

Mental health campaigner Natasha Devon shares her first of 3 blogs for SANE, describing her own experience of panic disorder and bulimia.

The nature of depression can discourage people from talking about their illness, cutting them off from help. However, we believe that no one should be left to face their depression alone.
That’s why SANE is launching a national advertising campaign to encourage people struggling to find their voice to call for help.
Your depression doesn't want you to talk. But we do. #LetMeTalk

Wonderful, informative and very much valued. Please keep raising awareness and educating people. No one need suffer alone x

Wonderful site, so glad not to be alone in this! X

There are great

Loosing friends to suicide through silent mental health issues sucks. . Cracking site to reach out to people who suffer in silent... DON'T SUFFER IN SILENCE

It's a charity very close my heart as a survivor off the illness this 11 years

I would be lost without Black Dog Tribe and the amazingly courageous people who have helped me accept mental illness. Thank you to Ruby Wax, Sane, and everyone who supports mental illness. I hope that this illness will be accepted by Government, Employers, Friends and most importantly Family. Family is the key to ensuring people are safe and not living with a mental illness, choosing to end their life alone. Having lost two friends recently to suicide, I feel helpless because the amazing people who chose to end their life were hiding a terrible secret, they had depression and could no longer cope. I hope to help other by telling my story, to ask for honesty, employer recognition and to hide away and establish your own clinic at home if it is what is best for you. If you can keep a plant alive for 12 months, you can have something more special in your life, an animal, helping you move forward, they do not judge you. I would not be here if it was not for one person, my best friends, who supports me regardless of my rages, crying, lack of interest, unipolar symptoms and the judgements from his family are now becoming acceptable within me as I am insane, crazy and also loved! Thank you Sane for helping everyone talk about how they feel.