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Mental health is the result of our emotional and physical needs being met well – using the resources nature gave us. When they are not met well, for whatever reason, individuals and families experience stress overload with an increase in various expressions of emotional arousal – anger, anxiety, trauma, depression, greed and addiction. This can lead, in turn, to illness and social problems that impact on the whole of society.

This definition is taken from the Radical Psychology Television website, which is founded on the new approach to emotional health and clear thinking... The Human Givens Approach.

Did you know? 10 Mental Health Facts to make you think

In the UK, there are more suicides on Mondays than on any other day of the week.

1 in 10 people will have some form of depression at any one time.

By the year 2020, it is estimated that depression will be second only to
heart disease as an international disease and disability burden.

Around half of all people with depression do not go to their GP. Two-thirds
of those who do see their GP present with physical ailments or sleeping
problems rather than psychological symptoms.

In 2002 / 2003, the economic and social cost of mental health problems in
England stood at £77 billion.

Among teenagers, rates of depression and anxiety have increased by 70 per cent in the past 25 years.

40 per cent of older people living in care homes are depressed.
Approximately 2 million people of working age in Britain are currently
taking psychiatric drugs.

Job applicants with a diagnosis of diabetes are significantly more likely
to be offered a position than applicants with a diagnosis of depression,
all other factors being equal.

One in ten children aged 5 to 15 experience clinically defined mental health problems.