NATIONAL PERCEPTIONS FORUM

(The organisation formerly known as the National Voices Forum)

UK user led organisation run by mad people for mad people.

The Voices PERCEPTIONS Forum is a forum which gives an active voice to people who hear voices in the head, people who have perceptions which the normal people aren't able to observe, people with schizophrenia, psychosis, paranoia, mental illness, hebephrenia, mania, schizophrenic spectrum disorders, and other forms of madness.

Issue 31 published (last updated) 2008/01/15 and hosted by www.lowtech.org

Who Are We ? a UK mental health service user group. What's a service user group?
Schizophrenia - an Inside View Madness explained. You know it makes sense.
Our magazine a mental health service user published Magazine	PERCEPTIONS
Words / Art / Sounds (by subject) also see FULL LIST Mad people (service users) are brilliantly creative. Well-known fact.
Personal Pages We speak for ourselves. Our own personal web pages.
EVENTS Various gloriously-successful conferences, gigs, dinners, stage shows, and tea parties we have arranged.
Site Index Also see What's New Index Take a look at how much amazing stuff there is in this site!
LINK PAGES Links to other mental health related sites, and other places as well!
MAD GAME Hunt the Hallucinatory Mice! Do they really exist?
Contact Us Write to us. We might write back.
Join Us Join this well-known UK service user network forum user group.	Welcome !

Help! Voluntary donations requested	£ $ € We're short of money! Please Help!

The Perceptions Forum is one of the most notable mental health service user groups in the UK. This user led website is continually being constructed by ZYRA who is a paranoid schizophrenic mental patient, although some folk prefer to describe people as (ex)service users, and other politically correct terminology by which to talk about madness. Please don't be put off by language. The issues more more important. We at Perceptions Forum are very friendly and will make you welcome! [Take a Look Inside]

Meanwhile, website construction... (ABOUT Perceptions/Voices Forum website)

Counter provided FREE by www.digits.com

Statistics by the artist formerly known as Nedstat: - International Perceptions Forum?

Site promoted to search engines by AddMe

This site has been safeguarded against infestation of Microsoft SmartTags by the inclusion of the line: <meta name="MSSmartTagsPreventParsing" content="TRUE"> in the header of every page, so if you see any, let us know!

Printer-Friendliness Note: The curious background colours on some of the pages may PLAY UP YOUR PRINTER if you try to print the pages! Sorry about that! This was discovered a while ago, and it's not a serious problem really, and if it happens, here's what to do:

1. e-mail us and mention it.
2. Save the page
3. Open the saved version with Notepad and change the line that starts <body bgcolor="#... to just <body>
4. Have another go at printing the saved version

Have fun exploring this intriguing website! This is, so we hear, once of the most notable user-led websites in the world. To see how much interesting stuff there is here, see the Perceptions Forum Site Index. There are quite a lot of pages at this site and it will take a while to change them to PERCEPTIONS FORUM, so don't be surprised if you see "VOICES Forum" mentioned here and there!

National Perceptions Forum is a Service User/Survivor run Organisation funded by Rethink. Registered in England Number 1127970. Registered Charity Number 271028. Registered Office 28 Castle Street Kingston-upon-Thames Surrey KT1 1SS. Rethink is the operating name of National Schizophrenia Fellowship, a company limited by guarantee.

Please note that although Perceptions Forum is funded by Rethink, it is not controlled by Rethink!