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MORE than a quarter of adults have been diagnosed with a mental illness at some point during their lifetime, figures released yesterday show.
The Health Survey for England found that 26 per cent of the more than 5,000 adults surveyed said they had been diagnosed with a mental health problem at some point.
Depression (including postnatal depression) was the most common diagnosed mental illness, at 19 per cent.
Rachel Craig, head of health surveys at NatCen Social Research, which collected the data, said: “This survey leaves us in no doubt as to the prevalence of mental ill-health in England.
“As many as one in four people suffer from a mental illness at some time in their lives and one in five with depression.
“Despite it affecting so many of us, prejudice against people with a mental illness still exists and there is some resistance to the provision of community care for people suffering with mental ill-health.”
