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'Stigma still attached' to mental health problems
Published: 10/09/08
People suffering from mental health problems still suffer from illegal discrimination, it has been claimed.In news to interest those with legal jobs, mental health charity Mind said that stigma and prejudice are still being faced by those with problems such as depression.
Policy officer Alison Cobb explained that despite increased awareness, the problem extends "from discrimination in the workplace to rejection from their own friends and family".
She said that evidence that depression might be increasing could just be because people are more willing to come forward about it and doctors are increasingly able to diagnose it.
According to the Mental Health Foundation, a quarter of people will experience some kind of mental health problem in the course of a year.
Women are more likely than men to have received treatment for a mental health problem.
In addition, about ten per cent of children have a problem with mental health at any one time, while one in five older people living in the community and two in five living in care homes suffer from depression.
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