Hope and Beyond Mental Health offers support, advice, and information to empower anyone experiencing a mental health problem worldwide. They are committed to improving services, promoting understanding, and securing better care for those dealing with mental health issues.
Mission: To provide advice and support to empower anyone experiencing a mental health problem and to solicit to improve services, raise awareness, and promote understanding.
Types of mental health problems
If you've been diagnosed with a mental health problem you might be looking for information on your diagnosis, treatment options and where to go for support. Our information pages will help you learn more.
Anger
Explains what anger is, and how to deal with it in a constructive and healthy way.
Anxiety and panic attacks
Explains anxiety and panic attacks, including possible causes and how you can access treatment and support. Includes tips for helping yourself, and guidance for friends and family.
Bipolar disorder
Explains what bipolar disorder is, what kinds of treatment are available, and how you can help yourself cope. Also provides guidance on what friends and family can do to help.
Body dysmorphic disorder (BDD)
Explains what body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) is, possible causes and how you can access treatment and support. Includes tips for helping yourself, and advice for friends and family.
Borderline personality disorder (BPD)
Explains borderline personality disorder (BPD), also known as emotionally unstable personality disorder (EUPD). Includes what it feels like, causes, treatment, support and self-care, as well as tips for friends and family.
Depression
Explains depression, including possible causes and how you can access treatment and support. Includes tips for helping yourself, and guidance for friends and family.
Dissociation and dissociative disorders
Explains dissociative disorders, including possible causes and how you can access treatment and support. Includes tips for helping yourself, and guidance for friends and family.
Eating problems
Explains eating problems, including possible causes and how you can access treatment and support. Includes tips for helping yourself, and guidance for friends and family.
Hearing voices
Explains what it is like to hear voices, where to go for help if you need it, and what others can do to support someone who is struggling with hearing voices.
Hoarding
Explains hoarding, including possible causes and how you can access treatment and support. Includes tips for helping yourself, and guidance for friends and family.
Hypomania and mania
Explains hypomania and mania, including possible causes and how you can access treatment and support. Includes tips for helping yourself, and guidance for friends and family.
Loneliness
Explains loneliness, giving practical suggestions for what you can do and where you can go for support.
Mental health problems - introduction
Explains what mental health problems are, what may cause them, and the many different kinds of help, treatment and support that are available. Also provides guidance on where to find more information, and tips for friends and family.
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)
Explains obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), including possible causes and how you can access treatment and support. Includes tips for helping yourself, and guidance for friends and family.
Panic attacks
Explains what panic attacks are, including possible causes and how you can access treatment and support. Includes tips for helping yourself, and guidance for friends and family.
Paranoia
Explains paranoia, including possible causes and how you can access treatment and support. Includes tips for helping yourself, and guidance for friends and family.
Personality disorder
Explains personality disorder, why you might be given this diagnosis and how you can access treatment and support.
Phobias
Explains phobias, including possible causes and how you can access treatment and support. Includes tips for helping yourself, and guidance for friends and family.
Postnatal depression & perinatal mental health
Explains postnatal depression and other perinatal mental health issues, including possible causes, sources of treatment and support. Also gives advice for friends and family.
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
Explains what post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and complex PTSD are, and provides information on how you can access treatment and support. Includes self-care tips and guidance for friends and family.
Premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD)
Explains what PMDD is and explores issues around getting a diagnosis. Also provides information on self-care and treatment options, and how friends and family can help.
Psychosis
Explains what psychosis is, including possible causes and how you can access treatment and support. Includes tips for helping yourself, and guidance for friends and family.
Recreational drugs, alcohol and addiction
Learn how recreational drugs and alcohol can affect your mental health, including if you take psychiatric medication. Find support options for drug and alcohol addiction, and ways to help someone else with their drug and alcohol use.
Schizoaffective disorder
Explains what schizoaffective disorder is, including its symptoms and causes. Gives advice on how you can help yourself and what types of treatment and support are available, as well as guidance for friends and family.
Schizophrenia
Explains schizophrenia, including possible causes and how you can access treatment and support. Includes tips for helping yourself, and guidance for friends and family.
Seasonal affective disorder (SAD)
Explains seasonal affective disorder, including possible causes and how you can access treatment and support. Includes tips for helping yourself, and guidance for friends and family.
Self-esteem
Explains how to increase your self-esteem, giving practical suggestions for what you can do and where you can go for support.
Self-harm
Explains self-harm, including possible causes and how you can access treatment and support. Includes tips for helping yourself, and guidance for friends and family.
Sleep problems
Explains insomnia and other sleep problems, giving practical suggestions for what you can do and where you can go for support.
Stress
Explains what stress is, what might cause it and how it can affect you. Includes information about ways you can help yourself and how to get support.
Suicidal feelings
Explains what suicidal feelings are, including possible causes and how you can learn to cope.
Suicide attempt - how to cope after
Find information to help you cope after a suicide attempt - including how you may feel, what might happen afterwards, and where to find support.
Tardive dyskinesia
Explains what tardive dyskinesia is, what causes it and what you can do to manage it.
Trauma
Explains what trauma is and how it affects your mental health, including how you can help yourself, what treatments are available and how to overcome barriers to getting the right support. Also includes tips for people who want to support someone who has gone through trauma.
Everyday living
Living with a mental health problem can often have an impact on day to day life, making things that others might not think about a bit more difficult. We've put together these tips and guides to help you cope with everyday things like money, work, university and more.
Carers, friends & family - coping & support
Explains how to cope when supporting someone else, giving practical suggestions for what you can do and where you can go for support.
Christmas and mental health
Learn how Christmas might affect your mental health. Find tips on how to cope and ways to support someone else.
Coping with distressing events in the news
If you're struggling with things happening in the news, or the world - you're not alone. Read our tips on how to cope.
Food and mental health
Learn how different types of food and drink can affect how you feel. And find tips for managing your diet if you're feeling mentally unwell.
Housing and mental health
Explains how your mental health and your housing situation might affect each other. Includes information on your housing rights, support from your local council and other organisations.
Insurance cover
Explains how mental health problems can affect insurance cover, what your rights are, and how to choose the right cover for you. Includes a list of specialist insurance providers.
LGBTQIA+ mental health
Gives information about mental health support for people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, asexual or questioning (LGBTQIA+).
Loneliness
Explains loneliness, including the causes of loneliness and how it relates to mental health problems. Gives practical tips to help manage feelings of loneliness, and other places you can go for support.
Looking after your mental health online
Explains the benefits and challenges to your mental health of being online. Also has information on staying safe online, getting the balance right between your online and offline life, and finding reliable mental health information online.
Menopause and mental health
Learn how menopause can affect your mental health. There's tips on how to cope and information about treatment and where to get support.
Mindfulness
Provides information on mindfulness, how to practise it and how it can help with mental health problems.
Money and mental health
Gives information about the relationship between money worries and mental health, with suggestions on how to address them.
Nature and mental health
Explains the mental health benefits of nature and gives tips and ideas to try. Also provides information on formal ecotherapy programmes, and where to find out more.
Parenting with a mental health problem
Explains how to cope as parent with a mental health problem, giving practical suggestions for what you can do and where you can go for support.
Physical activity and your mental health
Information about how physical activity can help your mental health, and tips for choosing an activity that works for you, and how to overcome anything that might stop you from becoming more active.
Racism and mental health
If racism is affecting your mental health, we're here for you. Our information can help you understand the impact of racism – and choose how and where to seek help. If you're finding it hard to get the support you need, our tips can help you find a way forward.
Relaxation
Tips and exercises to help you relax.
Sleep problems
Explains insomnia and other sleep problems, giving practical suggestions for what you can do and where you can go for support.
Stress
Explains what stress is, what might cause it and how it can affect you. Includes information about ways you can help yourself and how to get support.
Student life
Explains how you can look after your mental health as a student, giving practical suggestions for what you can do and where you can go for support.
Wellbeing
Explains how to improve and maintain your mental wellbeing, whether you have a diagnosis of a mental health condition or not.
Workplace - how to be mentally healthy at work
Learn how you can be mentally healthy at work, with suggestions for what you can do and where you can get support if you experience poor mental health.