One in four people will experience a mental health problem.
Slough Borough Council along with Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust and Berkshire East PCT, has launched a campaign to raise awareness of how many people will have a mental health problem.
The campaign also aims to help stop the stigma and discrimination people with mental health problems face.
Frank Toner, assistant director health and social care, said: “Despite the fact that mental health problems affect one in four of us, it is still stigmatised.
“People still won’t talk about it, won’t acknowledge it and are often unsympathetic to sufferers in a way they wouldn’t be if it was a physical illness.
“We want to raise awareness of the fact that a quarter of people will have some sort of mental health problem in their lives – whether mild depression or severe and enduring mental illness.
“It can happen to anyone, but the negative attitudes others show can be more disabling than the illness itself.”
The campaign surrounds World Mental Health Day which is on Wednesday October 10, 2007.
See the person not the label.
External websites of organisations and groups involved in helping people in Slough who are experiencing mental health problems.
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