The Rise and Rise of Anxiety and Depression:
Anxiety and depression levels continue to rise and rise, despite the numerous national and local initiatives put in place to try and counter them.
The Psychiatric Morbidity Survey provides data on both treated and untreated mental health issues among adults in England. Their most recent survey results (from 2014, published in 2016), indicate that one in six adults in England has a common mental health disorder (which includes anxiety and depression). This translates to about one woman in five and one man in eight having a mental health disorder, and the rate has increased in women and remained largely stable in men.
Perhaps even more alarming is that rates of self-harming have increased in men and women and across age groups since 2007.
Despite all the programmes and talking, mental health issues such as anxiety and depression continue to increase and impact on more and more people. The human cost of all this anxiety and depression, and the impacts that go with it, can’t even be estimated.
Now, new data from America has suggested that there has been a generational shift in mood disorders towards certain age groups.