One in four people will experience some type of mental health issue in the course of a year.
One in six people will have depression at some time in their lives. Depression is most common in people aged 25-44.
One in ten people are likely to have a 'disabling anxiety disorder' at some stage in their life. For manic depression and schizophrenia this figure is one in a hundred.
Six per cent of boys and sixteen per cent of girls aged 16-19 are thought to have some form of mental health problem.
Seventy five per cent of all suicidesare by men. Twenty per cent of all deaths of young people are by suicide.
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