Websites
I have retired from my clinical practice, so I am not able to offer individual advice. However, there are many dedicated professionals working in a variety of organisations who are available to help if you have questions or concerns.
This is a list of some of the websites that may help you to deal with your own questions and concerns. It isn’t comprehensive, is mainly UK-based, and there may be excellent services available to you that I am unaware of. I haven’t attempted to make this an exhaustive list, but it’s a place to start.
All of these links are run by organisations that will ensure that they are reasonably up-to-date. If you find other helpful websites, do compare their advice with the advice available through these links. If it looks similar, you have probably found something you can trust. If the information on unlisted sites is very different from those in this list, treat it with caution.
I hope you will find the advice you are looking for, and with it the peace of mind that makes our difficulties endurable.
Mind is a British mental health charity that offers useful resources for a variety of situations, including low mood, anxiety, panic, and flashbacks or post-traumatic stress disorder. There is information about building resilience, and about different coping styles.
Becoming a registered Organ Donor ensures that, if the circumstances allow, your still-healthy tissues or organs can be used to improve someone else’s quality of life, or even save their life, after your death.
In the UK, organ donation is now an opt-out system. This means that next of kin will usually be approached if organ donation could be possible. They will be approached by organ donation specialist staff, who will be respectful and sensitive. Next of kin are not obliged to agree.
Would yours know your wishes?
We can help our next of kin to know that we had already thought about this, and agreed to it, by signing up at this website.
It’s quick. It’s free. It gives good information. Do take a look.
Outside the UK? Search ‘become an organ donor in …’ for where you live.
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