Mental Health Soundbites...

Mental Health Soundbites
Louis Appleby, National Director for Mental Health Services

'Around 50% of lifetime mental illness starts before the age of 14 and continues to have a detrimental affect on people’s lives. Potentially half of these problems are preventable.'

'The New Horizons vision is about promoting better mental health
and well-being. It is also about high quality, responsive
services, that intervene early and effectively to lessen the long-term effects
of mental ill-health. Services that are focused not only on treatment outcomes,
but on wider quality of life issues, strengthened by efforts to promote social
inclusion and tackle stigma and discrimination of every kind.'

'Poor mental health is already believed to cost the economy £77billion
a year, with the King’s Fund predicting that the cost in terms of GDP will
double to over 10% by 2026. The indirect costs of poor mental health
include poor educational attainment, unemployment
and increased crime and anti-social behaviour.'