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Mental health illnesses that are popular in men

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Mental health illnesses that are popular in men

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This article shows warning signs and what men could be diagnosed with.

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Overview

While mental illnesses affect both men and women, the prevalence of mental illnesses in men is often lower than women. Men with mental illnesses are also less likely to have received mental health treatment than women in the past year. However, men are more likely to die by suicide than women, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Recognizing the signs that you or someone you love may have a mental disorder is the first step toward getting treatment. The earlier that treatment begins, the more effective it can be.

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While mental illnesses affect both men and women, the prevalence of mental illnesses in men is often lower than women. Men with mental illnesses are also less likely to have received mental health treatment than women in the past year. However, men are more likely to die by suicide than women, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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Joe Wicks is an influencer with 1.8 million followers on Instagram and nearly 400,000 subscribers on youtube. This article shows how Joe Wicks helps people keep healthy and fit. By doing this it lifts peoples spirits up especially during lockdown, and helps peoples mental health state.

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The gold-paved road from Instagram personality to multi-platform business mogul is well trodden. Hundreds have traversed it and found their fortunes along the way - a book deal here, an endorsement there, perhaps even a supermarket range to boot. But no one has hurtled down this highway farther, faster or with greater financial success than Joe Wicks. And that has always seemed, well, just a little bit annoying.
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I have watched Wicks' double-tapped journey with both fascination and barely concealed exasperation. Scarcely four years ago, he was but another anonymous personal trainer, stood outside Richmond station pushing flyers for his daily Rumble in the Park bootcamps. Today, he is the de facto face of health and fitness in the UK. And that face is everywhere.

Unless you've been training under a rock in recent years, you'll be familiar with the man's oeuvre. Perhaps you recognise him from his Channel 4 TV show, The Body Coach. Or maybe you've clocked his fitness column in The Sun. Or listened to his podcast. Or seen his advertising campaigns for Uncle Ben's rice. Maybe you were one of the 150,000 people who have signed up to his 90 Day Shift, Shape and Sustain nutrition plans.
(Related: Joe Wicks' six lean eating tips)
No? Well, chances are you're one of the 1.8 million people who follow him on Instagram or 321,000 subscribers on YouTube. No wait, you could be one of the two million-plus who have purchased his Lean In 15 cookbooks - you know, the ones that made him the bestselling author of 2016. You get the gist. You know exactly who he is.

Fairly or not, this ubiquity has grated on me. There's the speed and apparent ease of his success. Then there's the suspicion he's just another unqualified 'grammer, exploiting gullible followers in order to make a quick buck. And, while we're at it, you have that voice - a fast-forward mash-up of Jamie Oliver and David Beckham.
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The question that's always struck me is this: why him? Why, when there are literally thousands of other PTs and nutritionists out there, almost all with Instagram accounts, not to mention credentials, has Joe Wicks become the foremost authority on all things food and fitness? Just - why?

So I decided to find out.

Setting The Pace

We meet on a sunny spring day at an Argentinian steakhouse in Richmond. It's lunchtime, and while my list of achievements thus far amounts to showering, dressing and not missing my train, Wicks has already racked up another landmark day in a litany of landmark days. He has just taken delivery of three plaques - one platinum, two gold - to mark the continuing success of his Lean in 15 cookbooks. A little earlier, he led the first of what he hopes will be many School Workout sessions - a 15-minute HIIT session broadcast simultaneously on YouTube and Facebook Live. An estimated 1200 schools from around the world took part, enticed by no other PR push than his social media channels. Needless to say, he is buzzing.
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"It's a great start, and it's what I love doing," says Wicks, who is decked out in head-to-toe workout gear, consisting of black Nike Huarache trainers, white gym socks, black shorts and a grey Body Coach T-shirt. "I'd love to go to all these schools and do the whole campaign thing, but it's not practical. I'd only be reaching 100 kids a day; today I reached 120,000. If you can get them exercising and eating well from a young age, then I reckon it proper changes the shape of their lives."

His words spill out at a dizzying pace as he talks me through the workout, how the teachers are getting involved, the positive response on Twitter and the importance of disrupting children's sedentary lifestyles. "When kids get in from school, they're just sitting on their phones and laptops," he says. "If you don't get them thinking about fitness now, they'll struggle to break those habits later in life."
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Wicks didn't receive a fee for this School Workout. In fact, he doesn't receive a fee for most of the content he fires out across multiple digital platforms. This is curious behaviour for a professional Instagrammer - a breed for whom monetisation is as essential as oxygen. So why bother? "Because I enjoy it," he says plainly. "It's a new project for me. Even when I was a PT and a bootcamp owner, it was the same thing. I love getting a really unfit person who hates exercise, feels shit about themselves, then taking them on that journey. Whether it's six weeks or six months, it's about getting them in better shape."

As he rattles off more plans to work with schools, bus drivers and the NHS (he seems to form ambitious ideas faster than he's able to describe them) it's even more difficult comprehending how far he's come in so little time. But Wicks takes a pragmatic view: "A lot of people want success straight away. As soon as they have the followers, they want to sell them stuff. But that wasn't my incentive," he explains.

"My profile grew more organically. Not a lot of people know this but I actually sent 20,000 tweets before I made a single penny off of social media. I never had a strategy to build a community, to become an author, to get on TV, to have this company. It just happened."

The Money Shot

The game-changing moment came when Instagram introduced video. That's when Wicks began his #LeanIn15 recipe series. These are the ones where you'll find him shouting the names of ingredients while unceremoniously tossing them into a pan. The central conceit is that viewers can learn in 15 seconds how to cook a healthy meal that will take less than 15 minutes to prepare. "That's when my followers started rocketing," he acknowledges. "Instagram video allowed me to put my personality across. And that led to the book deals. It changed my life completely."
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The Lean In 15 videos may have been crude and unproduced - he simply holds his phone with one outstretched hand while throwing food with the other - but his approach to engaging with his audience was (and remains) anything but. "I became obsessed," he says. "In order to become social and build a community, I had to become really antisocial." He pulls out his phone, cranes his neck over it and mimes furiously tapping at the screen. "I'd be wanting to answer everything, sneaking off to the toilets to reply to stuff because people around me like my mum found it annoying. I was so engaged. I was like, I've got to do this, I've got to record this meal, I've got to post this... It was full on. Friends were like: what's the point, why are you doing it? But I kept going."

It's doubtful his mother is still complaining. After all, this fevered phone-bashing enabled him to buy her a house down the road from the council estate where the family had rented for years. Wicks' videos gained a substantial following - a following that hungrily bought into his subsequent Shift, Shape and Sustain transformation plans, this time sold at £147 a pop. "I used to do bootcamps five days a week, on top of 25 hours of PT. I was busy and I loved it, but I knew I was going to burn out one day," he says. "So when I released the plan I thought, if 10 people per month sign up to this, maybe I can do less PT and have the odd night out."
(Related: Why wellness is sick to the core)
Ironically, Wicks had to wait a while for that coveted night on the tiles. To say he miscalculated just how popular his plan would grow is more than an understatement. Suddenly Wicks was working longer hours than ever before just to keep up with demand. "One person did it and achieved this amazing transformation," he says. "Then 10 did it, then hundreds were signing up. It became this huge thing."

Huge is about right. Roughly 400 new clients are stumping up the £147 fee every single day. With over 150,000 having signed up to date, that's well over £1 million a month of revenue flooding the company coffers. (He will later show me round the Richmond office space he has rented, from where a team of 40 Support Heroes - customer service reps, basically - answer clients' queries and provide added motivation. It's a long way from flyering outside the train station. Though also technically not: from the office's gym you can see the exact spot where he used to stand with his leaflets; from the kitchen he has a view of the park from where he ran his bootcamps.)
(Related: Should you go to bootcamp?)
Even so, Joe Wicks is not the sort to grow complacent. He's all too aware of how fickle the online world can be. "The fact is I could become irrelevant really quickly," he acknowledges. "Someone could come along and be awesome and suddenly I'm nobody. So you've got to work at retaining the attention of the audience and keep them engaged." His answer is to take the phrase 'out of sight, out of mind' literally and make himself as visible to his audience as possible. "It's full on. I'm pretty much on a hamster wheel," he admits. "I do Facebook Lives, Q&As, then Instagram and Snapchat stories every day. Then there's one YouTube video a week, plus a Lean In 15 recipe every day." The exhaustion is more than mental. "My hip's hurting, but I've got to push through. I've got to have an injection [for the pain]. I push myself. It's tough. But I don't ever think it's too much."

Uncommon Sense

Of course, Wicks is by no means the only Instagrammer spinning away inside a pixelated wheel of his own making. From Kayla Itsines and 'Deliciously' Ella Woodward, through to the Hemsley sisters, Madeleine Shaw and Clean Eating Alice, there's a small army of lean, keen and unfailingly good-looking people sharing their every meal and gym session. But nuance aside, there is one very obvious difference between them: and that's the appendage between his legs. While Woodward and Itsines sit atop a multi-tiered pyramid of wellness queens, Joe Wicks stands alone on his Y chromosome plinth.

I ask why he thinks this might be. "I'd say it comes down to personality and being able to relate to people and connect in a way that's fun and inspiring," he says. "At the end of the day, all of us are trying to do the same thing, but maybe the tone is different. I just try and put out a really positive message." While one suspects there's rather more to it, he isn't kidding about the positivity. In person, Wicks is only slightly less excitable than his social media presence suggests. When he speaks about his business and his ambitions he does so with genuine passion, maintains eye contact at all times during conversation, is unfailingly polite to the restaurant's waiting staff, and relentlessly upbeat and optimistic at all times. I'd expect this sort of unwavering positivity to needle. But it doesn't. It's actually rather engaging.
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I'm not going to be suckered in that easy, though. Behind many wellness gurus' saccharine facades lies a joyless commitment to restrictive dieting and that grubbiest of dietary ideals: clean eating. "I don't conform to it," says Wicks emphatically. "In my new book, I've got a chocolate fondant and a sticky toffee pudding. I'm realistic: I'll have a drink, and I'll have a burger on the way home. That's the real world. I think some of the clean-eating people might be a little too angelic. They sit on this pedestal where they're perfect and don't get tempted by treats. But you know they're having a bar of chocolate every now and again."

Wicks refuses to demonise dairy or gluten - or anything else for that matter. Today, he's taking full advantage of the Argentinian fare on offer, devouring an enormous steak with a generous side of mash. The more he speaks about nutrition, the more sensible he sounds. "With the Lean In 15 books I was adamant I didn't want to mention calories because I don't want people to count calories. People shouldn't give themselves a hard time. You don't need to know how many grams of carbs you're going to need per kilogram of bodyweight. Just cook three meals a day and you'll be fine. Try not to eat out all the time. If you do, choose something healthy some of the time."
(Related: 8 of the best ways to eat eggs)
When it comes to his own training, he says, he practises what he preaches:"I don't believe in fooling my followers into thinking I'm only doing one workout a day if really I'm doing three hours. In fact, the opposite is true. I'm busy, so I'm literally doing 30 minutes, probably five times a week. At my gym I've only got ropes, kettlebells and a few dumbbells, so I'm not doing any heavy lifting. And I'm into sprints." This much is verified by the two-lane, 15m track in the middle of his office.

During our afternoon together, Wicks never veers into pseudoscience and nutritional quackery, a common trait among his contemporary influencers. Instead, his message is simple: exercise more, eat better. You can have that kebab after a big night out, but if you do, undo some of that damage the next day down at the gym. Clearly he isn't reinventing the wellness wheel; but crucially, neither is he claiming to.

He's simply trying to cut through the noise of fad diets, juice cleanses and clean-eating dogma, and encouraging hundreds of thousands of people to take better care of their bodies. And when you put it like that, what's not to like?

Raising The Bar

It would be all too easy to credit Wicks' success to one of timing. Equally, while looking uncannily like Jon Snow just stepped out of a salon won't have done him any harm, it's not a credible explanation for his meteoric rise. What really sets him apart, I discover, is his drive. Spend any length of time with Joe Wicks and it becomes clear that he is a highly ambitious entrepreneur. When our conversation flits from British Military Fitness to Ed Sheeran, it's not the subjects' intrinsic merits the he focuses on so much as their success stories. He admires people who have excelled in the world of business and he strives to emulate their achievements.
(Related: 5 fast ways to burn fat on a busy schedule)
So is this what it boils down to? A numbers game? Is it a case of more followers means more likes means more cash in the bank? Wicks claims not. "I'm not addicted to the likes, I'm addicted to the impact it's having on people and the feedback that I get every day," he says. "Take last night. Someone sent me a message saying their mum had lost five stone because of me. He thanked me. That's powerful shit. My main motivation is a desire to help people. I don't necessarily want to be famous, but I do want to be reaching millions."

Whether or not this amounts to one and the same thing is open to debate. However, it's this kind of zeal to positively influence the wellbeing of every person in the UK (which, by the way, is his stated aim) that has allowed him to accrue the sort of backing that prevents his next statement from sounding ridiculous:

"I want to do what Uber has done for travel, and what Airbnb has done for hotels," he says. "Spotify has done it for music, Amazon and Netflix have done it for movies. I want to do the same thing for fitness. I want to create somewhere that everybody comes to, a destination."
(Related: The best motivation for working out)
Here, somehow, his energy levels seem to go up a notch.

"All you see is unfit, unhealthy people. Everyone's unhealthy, everyone's got a belly. They're not doing well at all, they're not winning at life. So I want to try and tap into that at some point, whether it's a TV show or whether it's an online platform or a hub for people to come and learn about things and be inspired. I'm just going to keep doing what I'm doing. Because while I'm successful, it's still on such a small scale really. Think how big the world is. I'm just scratching the surface."

We pay up and take the short walk back to his office. He shows me the gym where he recorded today's School Workout, and then the kitchen that's home to his Lean In 15 videos. Enormous portraits of Wicks (painted by the performance artist Dave Sharp in 15 minutes, naturally) adorn the walls, along with motivational quotes and many a reference to 'midget trees' (his term of endearment for broccoli). Our time together is not his last engagement of the day. Next up he has a photo shoot for the cardboard cutouts that will hold volumes of his latest book and populate supermarkets up and down the country. Later he'll be attending an event to support the Teenage Cancer Trust.
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Looking out over the park where he began his career, he allows himself a rare moment of contemplation. He explains how he'd purposely set up camp near the road in the vain hope of attracting new members. It's this not-too-distant memory, he says, that prevents him from taking his newfound success for granted. "Mate, imagine, you're running a small bootcamp and then three years later you've sold two million books, you've got your own house, you've got an office with 50 staff. It's... well, it's amazing," he says, laughing to himself incredulously.

The joke, it would seem, is on me. And anyone else, for that matter, who has been naive enough to write Wicks off as a telegenic chancer. Or to take issue with the sound of his voice without listening to the substance of his words. His fitness philosophy is solid, his mastery of his media laudable, and his business savvy beyond reproach. Wicks' success has been built on hard graft and bucket-loads of sweat - his own, and that of the hundreds of thousands who perform his workouts, sign up to his plans and buy his books.

Before we part, I ask him how he'd like to be regarded, this most bright and resolutely male of Instagram stars. His response is typically keen yet humble: "I'd like to think the majority of people would say, 'He's done well. He's worked hard and he's achieved something. He's doing a good thing.'"

And you know what? He really is.
Photography: Hamish Brown, Styling: Eric Down

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How is mens and women mental health different?

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WOMEN

Women are more likely to have been treated for a mental health problem than men (29% compared to 17%).This could be because, when asked, women are more likely to report symptoms of common mental health problems. (Better Or Worse: A Longitudinal Study Of The Mental Health Of Adults In Great Britain, National Statistics, 2003)

Depression is more common in women than men. 1 in 4 women will require treatment for depression at some time, compared to 1 in 10 men. The reasons for this are unclear, but are thought to be due to both social and biological factors. It has also been suggested that depression in men may have been under diagnosed because they present to their GP with different symptoms, for example a range of physical, stress related symptoms. (National Institute For Clinical Excellence, 2003)

Women are twice as likely to experience anxiety as men. Of people with phobias or OCD , about 60% are female. (The Office for National Statistics Psychiatric Morbidity report, 2001)

MEN

Men are more likely than women to have an alcohol or drug problem. 67% of British people who consume alcohol at 'hazardous' levels, and 80% of those dependent on alcohol are male. Almost three quarters of people dependent on cannabis and 69% of those dependent on other illegal drugs are male. (The Office for National Statistics Psychiatric Morbidity report, 2001)

Differences in the extent of mental health problems

Mental health problems affect women and men equally, but some are more common among women. Abuse is often a factor in women's mental health problems. Treatments need to be sensitive to and reflect gender differences.

Various social factors put women at greater risk of poor mental health than men. However women's readiness to talk about their feelings and their strong social networks can help protect their mental health.

Women as guardians of family health

It is essential that women look after their mental health although busy lifestyles often make this difficult. Traditionally women have tended to take on the responsibility of looking after the health of members of their family as well as themselves. For instance women may shop for their family and choose what they eat or manage what their family do when they feel unwell. This role makes it particularly important that women understand how the choices we all make in everyday life can affect our mental health.

Women as carers

Carers can be women whether they care for their children, partner, parents, other relatives or friends. Women carers are more likely to suffer from anxiety or depression in the general population. just over half of people who care for a person with a mental health problem are women and the average age of carers is 50 - 64 years.

Social support

Women's friendships with other women help protect their mental health, providing a source of support, particularly in hard times or at times of loss or change. Mentally healthy women generally talk about their feelings more than men and more often have stronger social networks of friends and family. Good social support can play a part in preventing mental ill health and can help people recover from mental health problems.

Women's mental health

About 25% of people who die by suicide are women. Again, women's greater emotional literacy and readiness to talk to others about their feelings and seek help may protect them from suicidal feelings. Being a mother also makes women less likely to take their own life.

Women are particularly exposed to some of the factors that increase the risk of poor mental health because of the role and status that they typically have in society. The traditional roles for women from some ethnic groups living in the UK can increase their exposure to these risks.

The social factors particularly affecting women's mental health include:

more women than men are the main carer for their children and they may care for other dependent relatives too intensive caring can affect emotional health, physical health, social activities and finances

women often juggle multiple roles they may be mothers, partners and carers as well as doing paid work and running a household

women are over represented in low income, low status jobs often part-time and are more likely to live in poverty than men

poverty, working mainly in the home on housework and concerns about personal safety can make women particularly isolated

physical and sexual abuse of girls and women can have a long-term impact on their mental health, especially if no support has been received around past abuses.

Mental health problems affecting more women than men

Some women find it hard to talk about difficult feelings and 'internalise' them, which can lead to problems such as depression and eating disorders. They may express their emotional pain through self-harm, whereas men are more likely to 'act out' repressed feelings, and to use violence against others.

Depression

More women than men experience depression. One in four women will require treatment for depression at some time, compared with one in 10 men. The reasons for this are unclear, but are thought to include social factors such as poverty and isolation and biological factors such as the hormonal changes experienced by women. However, some researchers dispute the relatively low depression rate for men.

Post natal depression is believed to affect between eight and 15% of women after they have given birth.

Women's increased life expectancy means they are more likely than men to outlive their partner and move into residential care. This means they are more at risk of depression associated with psycho-social factors. Older people are often faced with more difficult life events and daily stresses than younger people and this may explain why they have a slightly increased risk of depression. Losses whether bereavement or losses associated with growing old such as loss of independence because of physical illness or disability can trigger depression.

Estimates suggest that 20% of older people living at home have symptoms of depression , rising to 40% for older people living in care homes. The majority of people affected are women. Those over the age of 85 are at particular risk.

Anxiety

Women are twice as likely to experience anxiety disorders as men. About 60% of the people with phobias or obsessive compulsive disorder are women. Phobias affect about 22 in 1,000 women in the UK, compared with 13 in 1,000 men.

Dementia

Two thirds of people with dementia are women. Risk of dementia increases with age, and women have a higher life expectancy than men.

Eating disorders

Eating disorders are more common in women than men, with young women most likely to develop one. 1.9% of women and 0.2% of men experience anorexia in any year. Between 0.5% and 1% of young women experience bulimia at any one time.

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)

Worldwide, more women are affected by PTSD than men, largely because women are exposed to more sexual violence. The risk of developing PTSD after any traumatic event is 20.4% for women and 8.1% for men.

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They struggled to get help online and didn't feel comfortable confiding in others

Pressures at school, social media and appearance all factors in causing issues

It has been shown that mental health plunges if youngsters don't get initial help

The majority of young people seeking mental health support struggle to find help, according to a new survey.

Three quarters of under-25s said they attempted to deal with their problems themselves or suppress them because they couldn't get the support they needed.

They struggled to find help online and did not feel comfortable confiding in friends, family or teachers, the YoungMinds survey found.

When asked what factors have had a significant impact on their mental health, the most common answer was pressure to do well at school or college (77 per cent).

This was followed by worrying about how they look (69 per cent) and problems with family (62 per cent) and friends (52 per cent).

Around a quarter of respondents (27 per cent) said spending too much time on social media was a significant factor.

The research also found that while many young people are left to confront mental health problems alone, only 17 per cent of respondents felt confident in their ability to manage their issues by themselves.

THE SIGNS YOUR CHILD MAY BE DEPRESSED AND WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT

Signs of depression in children can include:

Prolonged sadness

Irritability

Lack of interest in things they used to enjoy

Fatigue and exhaustion

Insomnia or sleeping too much

Poor concentration

Indecisiveness

Lack of confidence

Eating too much or too little

Inability to relax

Feeling guilty or worthless

Numb to emotions

Thoughts about suicide or self harming

Self harming

Some also have physical symptoms, like headache or abdominal pain.

Older children may misuse alcohol or drugs.

Depression in children can occur due to family issues, bullying, other mental-health problems, or physical, emotional or sexual abuse.

It can be triggered by one event, such as a bereavement, or a build-up of things.

If you suspect your child is depressed, try to talk to them about how they are feeling.

Let them know you are concerned and you are there if they need you.

If they will not talk to you, encourage them to reach out to another relative, teacher or family friend.

If this does not help, contact your GP, who may refer your child to a specialist mental-health service.

Friends are the most common source of support for young people seeking help with their mental health, with 71 per cent of those survey saying they had turned to one.

Parents were the second most popular support provider (63 per cent), while 53 per cent of respondents said they had used the internet to look for help.

Emma Thomas, YoungMinds' chief executive, said: 'These results show how hard it can be for young people to get help when they first start to struggle - and we know that the impact of leaving it too late can be devastating.'

The charity also revealed that 76 per cent of parents said that their children's mental health had deteriorated while waiting for support.

Ms Thomas added: 'We hear every day from young people who have been left waiting for support while their problems have got worse.

'Some tell us that they've started to self-harm, become suicidal, or dropped out of school because they can't get the help they need. The crisis in young people's mental health is real and it's urgent.'

It comes after an investigation revealed mentally ill children in England are being forced to travel hundreds of miles for NHS treatment.

More than 1,200 under 18s were admitted to inpatient units outside of their local area in 2017/18 because of a lack of beds.

One child even had to travel 339 miles (545km) for care - seven miles (11km) short of the distance between Brighton and Newcastle.

This comes after NHS England pledged in 2017 to end out-of-area mental health placements.

It also announced it was creating up to 180 new beds for children.

Psychiatrists have warned being sent away from home can slow a patient's recovery, with many already being 'distressed' and at risk of suicide or self harm.

The furthest distance one child was forced to travel in the first six months of 2018/19 was 333.8 miles.

The year before, the furthest recorded distance was 285 miles (458km).

Over the 12 months of 2017/18, 1,249 children were admitted to beds beyond their local area. This was defined as 'placement outside the geographical footprint covered by the specialised commissioning hub.' There are 10 hubs across the country.

WHAT DOES THE NHS LONG TERM PLAN SET OUT FOR MENTAL HEALTH AMONG CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE?

In total 587 young people were admitted to child and adolescent specialised mental health inpatient units away from home in the first six months of 2018/19 - the most recent figures available. It suggests the NHS is not on track to significantly reduce the number of children being sent away by the end of the year.

The issue is worst in the Midlands, South East and London, where 'several' children had to travel more than 250 miles (402km) for treatment.

In the South, 84 children trekked between 100 miles (160km) and 200 miles (321km) for inpatient care.

And in the Midlands and East of England, 25 children were forced to go between 100 and 150 miles (241km) for treatment.

A further 2,101 children and young people in England were treated within 100 miles of their homes.

NHS figures show nearly 14 per cent of children aged five to 15, or one in seven, have an 'identifiable' mental health condition - up a fifth in two decades.

Children with conditions such as depression and anxiety and eating disorders are meant to be referred to Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services, where they are seen by psychiatrists, therapists and social workers.

- For confidential support call the Samaritans on 116123 or visit a local Samaritans branch. See www.samaritans.org.

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Majority of young Brits seeking mental health support can't find help

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They struggled to get help online and didn't feel comfortable confiding in others Pressures at school, social media and appearance all factors in causing issues It has been shown that mental health plunges if youngsters don't get initial help The majority of young people seeking mental health support struggle to find help, according to a new survey.

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At any one time, it is believed that one in five women (19.7%) and one in eight men(12.5%) are diagnosed with a common mental illness, such as anxiety, depression, panic disorder or obsessive compulsive disorder.
Most men don't talk about mental health as they have a certain stereotype to not show emotions. Therefore, it's more popular to talk about mental health in women then men. However, a lot of men suffer from depression etc.