How common are mental health problems?

• 1 in 4 people will experience a mental health problem of some kind each year in England.
• 1 in 6 people report experiencing a common mental health problem
  (like anxiety and depression) in any given week in England.
  
  

In any given week in England:

• Mixed anxiety and depression: 8 in 100 people
• Generalised anxiety disorder (GAD): 6 in 100 people
• Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD): 4 in 100 people
• Depression: 3 in 100 people
• Phobias: 2 in 100 people
• Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD): 1 in 100 people
• Panic disorder: fewer than 1 in 100 people.
  
  

Suicidal thoughts and self-harm
Over the course of someone’s lifetime;

• 1 in 5 people have suicidal thoughts.
• 1 in 14 people self-harm.
• 1 in 15 people attempt suicide.

Women are more likely to have suicidal thoughts
   and make suicide attempts than men,
   however, men are 3 times more likely to take their own life than women.
In fact, suicide is now the biggest killer of men under 50.

Mental Health and young people 

• 20% of adolescents may experience a mental health problem in any given year.
• 50% of mental health problems are established by age 14 and 75%by age 24.
• 10% of children and young people (aged 5-16 years) have a clinically diagnosable mental problem BUT
• 70% of children and adolescents who experience mental health problems have not had appropriate interventions at a sufficiently early age.