Common mental health problems such as depression, anxiety, phobias and obsessive-compulsive states affect one in six people at any one time.
Severe and enduring mental health problems such as schizophrenia affect about one in 200 people each year.
Concerns about mental illness are such that the Government has given a high priority to this area, along with coronary heart disease and cancers.
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