Bullring hosted the first Breakfast Club in partnership with Birmingham Mind. The event was presented by Free Radio's Sparky and speakers included local rapper Smiiffy, Virtual X's Creative Director and Mike Jeffries, a representative from Birmingham Mind.
Below are some of the statistics that were discussed during the event.
Provided by National Mind and Statistics
· THIS WEEK IN THE UK
· 104 people will take their own life
• 250,000 people will visit their doctor about a mental health problem
• 750,000 prescriptions for antidepressants will be issued
• ACROSS THE UK
• Only 14% of people report living with high levels of good mental health
• More than 4 in 10 people say they have experienced depression
• Over a quarter of people say they have experienced panic attacks
• Nearly 3 in 4 people living in the lowest household income bracket report having experienced a mental health problem, compared to 6 in 10 of the highest household income bracket.
• Nearly two-thirds of people say that they have experienced a mental health problem . This rises to 7 in every 10 women, young adults aged 18-34 and people living alone.
Compiled by the Men’s Health Forum, June 2016 (Updated January 2017.)
• Men account for just over three out of four suicides (76%) from the ONS total figure for suicides of 6,188 in 2015.
• 12.5% of men in the UK are suffering from one of the common mental health disorders
• Men are nearly three times more likely than women to become alcohol dependent (8.7% of men are alcohol dependent compared to 3.3% of women).
• Men are more likely to use (and die from) illegal drugs
• Men are less likely to access psychological therapies than women. Only 36% of referrals to IAPT services are men.
• There is considerable debate about the true level of common mental health disorders in men - In a 2016 survey by Opinion Leader for the Men’s Health Forum, the majority of men said that they would take time off work to get medical help for physical symptoms such as blood in stools or urine, unexpected lumps or chest pain, yet fewer than one in five said they would do the same for anxiety (19%) or feeling low (15%)
• Men report significantly lower life satisfaction than women in the Government’s national well-being survey – with those aged 45 to 59 reporting the lowest levels of life satisfaction.
• 73% of adults who “go missing” are men
• 87% of rough sleepers are men
• Men are nearly 50% more likely than women to be detained and treated compulsorily as psychiatric inpatients
