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Social Services Mental Health
There
are many services in Kensington and Chelsea for anyone who is concerned about
their own or someone else’s mental health. This includes feelings of unhappiness
or anxiety as well as more formal and perhaps diagnosed mental health problems.
Approximately one in ten people will suffer from mental illness in any one year. This is a significant number of people, yet often we feel afraid and alone; afraid that no one will understand us, that what we are experiencing is unusual and out of the ordinary. We may even feel some embarrassment or shame.
We want to help you to work out what you need and to plan how you want your needs met. Go to Individual Budgets
The term mental illness covers a range of different problems. At some point in our lives it is likely that we will all experience some form of mental distress, for example after some life changing event. The difference between these unpleasant but normal feelings and mental illness is often the intensity and duration of these feelings.
The Mental Health Act Commission has statutory responsibilities to monitor the operation of the Mental Health Act 1983 and, in particular, the care and treatment of patients detained in hospital under the Act (‘sectioned’).
In October 2002 two members the Mental Health Act Commission visited Kensington and Chelsea Social Services, for more information see Report, Recommendations and Action Plan
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