Some interesting facts about mental health.

In the UK employers loose over £1000 for every person they employ, through mental ill health.

The total cost to businesses in the UK is £25.9 Billion a year, that’s Billion with a B.

In the UK 70 million sick days a year are lost to mental ill health, things such as depression, anxiety and stress. This could just be the tip of the iceberg how many people phone there employer saying they have a migraine or something too worried about the resulting prejudice if they said they couldn’t come to work because they were too depressed.

It has also been estimated that over £15 billion is lost in productivity due to people who continue to work even though they are suffering form some form of mental health problem.

The good news is mental health problems are like physical health problems, they can be treated and most people recover. We tend to always hear about the worst cases, which does little for the morale of people who are trying to recover.