Approximately one in six  adults at any time is experiencing mental health problems. - TRUE

Mental illness is as common as asthma.  It can range from high levels of anxiety to deep depression to more severe illness such as schizophrenia which affects fewer than one in a hundred people.

Mental illness severe enough to require professional help is as common as heart disease and three times as common as cancer.

Millions of working days are lost every year due to sickness absence due to mental disorder.