In this essay, I will summarise and discuss the two newspaper articles on mental health.
Article 1: Exclusive: Britains 100bn mental health crisis by Lakhani (2010)
Article 2: Can you read yourself better? How GPs may prescribe a self-help book by Lewis (2013)
The essay will include the extent of the problem of depression and anxiety, the causes of depression and anxiety, the treatment of depression and anxiety, using drug medication, the role drugs play in the bio psychosocial treatment and other type of treatment that relates to mental health.
In society, in less extreme cases people suffer from some kind of mental illness; the most commonly known mental illnesses are depression, anxiety and stress. However, the more extreme cases show that the UK has one of the highest rates of self harm of 45,000 people a year mostly due to mental illnesses (Lakhani, 2010)…(short extract)