Did you know...

Every year mental illness or brain disease affects 1 in 4 of the UK population - that is 15 million people a year!

Mental illness and brain disease are 3 times as common as cancer.

80% of people with mental illness suffer from anxiety, depression, or stress.

77% of suicides are male.

Between 250,000 - 300,000 people in Great Britain suffer from schizophrenia. 10% commit suicide.

15% of people with manic depressive psychosis, personality disorders and alcohol dependency problems commit suicides.

9 in every 10 suicides involve mental illness.

Violence is not a symptom of schizophrenia.

0.01% of people with schizophrenia pose a risk to others.

The number of homicides and violent incidents (involving mental illness) has decreased in the last 25 years.