Anyone can experience mental health problems, but it can be difficult to know where to find help, or how to offer your support.
DID YOU KNOW?
MENTAL HEALTH STATISTICS ACROSS A LIFETIME
- 1 in 6 adults in the past week experienced a common mental health problem such as anxiety or depression. *1
- 50% of mental health problems are established by age 14 and 75% by age 24. *2
- 300,000 people a year leave the workplace because of mental health problems. *3
- 68% of women and 57% of men with mental health problems are parents. *4
- Working people with mental health problems contribute £226m a year to the UK economy – that’s 12.1% of GDP. *5
- In 2017/8 mental health problems accounted for 15.4 million sick leave days in the UK. *6
- Depression affects around 22% of men and 28% of women aged 65 years and over. *7
- Last year we found that 30% of all adults have felt so stressed by body image and appearance that they felt overwhelmed or unable to cope. *8
Sources:
*1 Kessler RC, Berglund P, Demler O, Jin R, Merikangas KR, Walters EE. (2005). Lifetime Prevalence and Age-of-Onset Distributions of DSM-IV Disorders in the National Comorbidity Survey Replication. Archives of General Psychiatry, 62 (6) pp. 593-602. doi:10.1001/archpsyc.62.6.593.
*2 McManus S, Bebbington P, Jenkins R, Brugha T. (eds.) (2016) Mental health and wellbeing in England: Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey 2014. Leeds: NHS Digital. Available at: http://content.digital.nhs.uk/ catalogue/PUB21748/apms-2014-full-rpt.pdf
*3 Thriving at Work: the Stevenson/Farmer review on mental health and employers (2017)
*5 Mental Health Foundation (2016). Added Value – Mental Health As A Workplace Asset. https://www.mentalhealth.org.uk/addedvalue