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Mental health in the UK


Overview

Suicide

Self-harm

LGBTQ+

Minority ethnic

Facts and figures about our Shout 85258 text support service

References

(1) McManus S, Bebbington P, Jenkins R, Brugha T. (eds.) (2016). Mental health and wellbeing in England: Adult psychiatric morbidity survey 2014

(2) Hard Edges: Mapping Severe and Multiple Disadvantage in England

(3) McManus S, Bebbington P, Jenkins R, Brugha T. (eds.) (2016). Mental health and wellbeing in England: Adult psychiatric morbidity survey 2014

(4) ONS. Suicides in England and Wales: 2021 registrations

(5) McManus S, Bebbington P, Jenkins R, Brugha T. (eds.) (2016). Mental health and wellbeing in England: Adult psychiatric morbidity survey 2014

(6) https://www.manchester.ac.uk/discover/news/steep-rise-in-self-harm-among-teenage-girls/

(7) Sexual Minorities in England Have Poorer Health and Worse Health Care Experiences: A National Survey (2015)

(8) ONS: Sexual Orientation, UK, 2018

(9) Stonewall (2017)

(10) Joseph Rowntree Foundation. Poverty rates among ethnic groups in Great Britain.(2007) https://www.jrf.org.uk/report/poverty-rates-among-ethnic-groups-great-britain

(11) Mental Health Foundation. Mental Health Statistics: Poverty https://www.mentalhealth.org.uk/statistics/mental-health-statistics-poverty

A snapshot of our Shout 85258 data

Age of texters 2020

Daily number of conversations

Main issues people texted Shout 85258

Daily number of texters

Ethnicity of texters

Gender of texters