Mental Health
The facts and figures around Mental Health
About a quarter of the population will experience some kind of mental health problem in the course of a year, with mixed anxiety and depression the most common mental disorder in Britain:
•Women are more likely to have been treated for a mental health problem than men and about ten percent of children have a mental health problem at any one time
•Depression affects 1 in 5 older people
•Suicides rates show that British men are three times as likely to die by suicide than British women and self-harm statistics for the UK show one of the highest rates in Europe: 400 per 100,000 population
•Anxiety is one of the most prevalent mental health problems in the UK and elsewhere, yet it is still under-reported, under-diagnosed and under-treated.
•Only 1 in 10 prisoners has no mental disorder.
•People with mental health problems are up to ten times more likely to become victims of crime than the general population.
•In 2013/14 there were 44,480 hate crimes recorded by the police, of which 1,985 (4%) were disability hate crimes.
Support & Getting Help
Merseyside Police is continuing to support Mersey Care and mental health services across the region – find out more about what we are doing here.
Getting help
Support is available through a number of organisations such as;-
• Samaritans
Telephone: 08457 90 90 90 (24 hours a day)
•Website: www.samaritans.org
• Mind Info line
Telephone: 0300 123 3393 (9am-5pm Monday to Friday)
•Website: www.mind.org.uk
• Rethink Mental Illness Advice Line
Telephone: 0300 5000 927 (10am-2pm Monday to Friday)
•Website: www.rethink.org
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