Mental Health Assessment and Referral Links

Community Mental Health Teams (CMHTs):

Residents living in Hornsey or Highgate, or registered with a Hornsey or Highgate family doctor should contact:

Residents living in Wood Green, or registered with a Wood Green family doctor should contact:

Residents living in North Tottenham, or registered with a North Tottenham family doctor should contact:

Residents living in South Tottenham, or registered with a South Tottenham family doctor should contact:

Haringey Social Services:

Alcohol and Drug Use:

Provides a wide range of services for adults with alcohol problems, including counselling, family services and a women's group. There is a day care centre with a crèche and a children and families worker.

DASH offers a free and confidential service, providing a range of accessible services to drug users, their families, partners and friends. DASH is made up of people with different experience and skills. It includes trained medical, nursing and counselling staff.

Dual Diagnosis

Specialist service for people with severe mental health problems and substance misuse. Professional referral required.

OCD

OCD Action is a UK national charity for people with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and the related disorders of body dysmorphic disorder, compulsive skin picking and trichotillomania. OCD Action provides information, advice and support for people with these disorders and their family, friends and carers, as well as interested professionals and the media.

Depression

Depression Alliance is the UK's leading charity providing information, support and understanding for people affected by depression. It also campaigns to raise greater awareness of the condition. DA runs a national network of support groups, a pen-friend scheme and produces a range of leaflets, posters, tapes and videos. DA is also involved in lobbying, raising awareness and research.

User-led charity working to enable people affected by bipolar disorder/manic depression to take control of their lives. Free advice and information.

The Fellowship of Depressives Anonymous is a small national self help organisation for people with depression and those who care about them. It aims to encourage and support people with depression by means of self help and mutual support. The main contact point is through the information line which is open to all at any time and is answered personally for at least four hours a day. Any messages left at other times will be answered as soon as possible. Members of the Fellowship will recieve newsletters and information on pen friend and phone friend schemes and independant local groups.

For those women experiencing depression before or after childbirth.

SADA is a voluntary organisation and a registered charity which informs the public and health professionals about SAD, and supports and advises sufferers of the illness. SAD is a winter depressive illness that can so badly affect sufferers that they cannot function in winter without medical treatment. The association offers advice and information. It produces a newsletter three times a year and other publications, holds meetings, has a network of contacts and local groups as well as a lightbox hire scheme. It also raises money for research into SAD.

Specialised Services

A charity which aims to help in the relief and rehabilitation of those people experiencing panic attacks, phobias, obsessive compulsive disorders and other related anxiety disorders as well as their carers, health professionals, families and/or friends. Services include a freephone, confidential helpline open every day of the year, telephone recovery groups, literature, books, audio and video cassettes, written recovery programmes for overcoming phobias and obsessive compulsive disorders, and self-help cognitive behavioural therapy guidelines.

The Phobics Society can provide support and help if you've been diagnosed with, or suspect you may have an anxiety. The Society helps people deal with specific phobias such as fear of spiders, blushing, vomiting, being alone, public speaking and heights. NPS is a national user-led organisation, run by sufferers and ex-sufferers of anxiety disorders supported by a medical advisory panel. NPS aims to promote the relief and rehabilitation of persons suffering with anxiety disorders through information and provision of self-help services. NPS supports anyone suffering from anxiety, panic attacks/disorder, generalised anxiety disorder (GAD), obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), social phobia, body dismorphic disorder (BDD), trichotillomania, tranquiliser problems, agoraphobia and other phobias. Members can access a full range of services, including specialist therapies, helplines, online services, self-help groups, legal help, workshops and conferences.

First Steps to Freedom offers practical help to people who suffer from phobias, obsessive compulsive disorder, general anxiety, panic attacks, anorexia and bulimia, and offers support to carers.

Eating Disorders

Provides a comprehensive service for people suffering from an eating disorder. Inpatient and outpatient services. Contact Phoenix Wing for referral details.

Eating Disorders Association is a national charity providing information, help and support for people affected by eating disorders and, in particular, anorexia and bulimia nervosa. Phone the helpline for details of local contacts. EDA offers a range of services including: national helplines, UK-wide network of local self-help and support groups, postal and phone contacts, information, membership and a helpline and support service for young people. It also has a 24 hour recorded information service where calls cost 50p per minute and the message lasts approximately 8 minutes.

Overeaters Anonymous is a fellowship of men and women from all walks of life who meet in order to help solve a common problem - compulsive overeating. The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop eating compulsively. OA aims to stop the desire of compulsive overeating and food obsession. Members follow the 12 steps of alcoholics anonymous to overcome food obsession and to carry the message of recovery to those who still suffer. Telephone or use the website to find your nearest meeting.

Personality Disorders

Self Harm

The network provides information, contacts and workshops on matters relating to self harm and promotes survivor-written literature.