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Rethink Mental Illness is a mental health charity in England. Its mission statement is "Working together to help everyone affected by severe mental illness recover a better quality of life." The organisation was founded in 1972 by relatives of people diagnosed with schizophrenia, following an article by a journalist whose son had been diagnosed. The operating name of 'Rethink' was adopted in 2002 but the charity remains registered as the National Schizophrenia Fellowship, although it no longer focuses only on schizophrenia. The operating name was expanded in 2011 to be more self-explanatory.〔Gareth Jones, (Rethink rebrands to clarify its role ), 19 September 2011. Retrieved 23 September 2011.〕 Rethink now has over 8,300 members, who receive a regular magazine called Your Voice. The charity states that it helps 48,000 people every year, and is for caregivers as well as those with a mental disorders. It provides services (mainly community support, including supported housing projects), support groups, and information through a helpline and publications. The Rethink website receives almost 300,000 visitors every year. Rethink carries out some survey research which informs both their own and national mental health policy, and it actively campaigns against stigma and for change through greater awareness and understanding. It is a member organisation of EUFAMI, the European Federation of Families of People with Mental Illness. Mark Winstanley is the chief executive. 〔https://www.rethink.org/media-centre/2014/03/jonathan-trott-not-depressed-response-from-rethink-mental-illness〕 He succeeded Paul Jenkins in March 2014.〔http://uk.linkedin.com/pub/paul-jenkins/9/501/4bb〕 ==Campaigns== Rethink Mental Illness was instrumental in promoting the new early psychosis paradigm in 1995 when they linked with an early psychosis network in the West Midlands, called IRIS (Initiative to reduce impact of schizophrenia).〔(History of the Early Psychosis Declaration ), IRIS-initiative.org.uk. Retrieved 23 September 2011.〕 This then led to the Early Psychosis Declaration by the World Health Organization〔(Early Psychosis Declaration ), IRIS. Retrieved 23 September 2011.〕 and the subsequent formation of early psychosis services as part of mainstream health policy.〔(Early Intervention development programme ), IRIS. Retrieved 23 September 2011.〕〔(IRIS Initiative in the UK ), California Council of Community Mental Health Agencies. Retrieved 23 September 2011.〕 Amongst its recent campaigns Rethink has urged the government to look at the mental health risks of cannabis, rather than "fiddle with its legal status". Cannabis was downgraded from a Class B to a Class C drug in 2004, making most cases of possession non-arrestable. However, Rethink wants government support for new research into the relationship between severe mental illness and cannabis. They have publicly stated, in response to George Michael's advocacy of the drug, that cannabis is the drug "most likely to cause mental illness". Rethink was both criticised and congratulated for commissioning a statue of Sir Winston Churchill in a straitjacket, which was unveiled in The Forum building in Norwich on 11 March 2006. This was part of Rethink's first anti-stigma regional campaign. The statue was intended to show how people in today's society are stigmatised by mental illness, based on claims that Churchill suffered from depression and perhaps bipolar disorder. However, the statue was condemned by Churchill's family, and described by Sir Patrick Cormack as an insult both to the former prime minister and to people with mental health problems. Although straitjackets have not been used in UK psychiatric hospitals for decades, a sufferer from bipolar disorder identified with "the straitjacket of mental illness" and commended the image. Nevertheless, in response to the complaints, the statue was removed. In 2009 Rethink launched ''Time to Change'', a campaign to reduce mental health discrimination in England, in collaboration with ''MIND''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rethink Mental Illness」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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