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For better mental health
Photo: Robert Nunn/Health Media and Sport Limited. Mind will launch a major new campaign on 12 May 2008 as part of Mind week 2008, our annual awareness–raising event. The campaign will highlight the high levels of debt among people with experience of mental distress. In the red: Debt and mental health
It is difficult to disentangle the inter–relationship between debt and mental health, but the links are clear. Being in debt can negatively affect a person’s mental health, while living with a mental health need increases the likelihood of falling into debt. Mind commissioned the Royal College of Psychiatrists to carry out a new piece of research in this area in December 2007 and January 2008. The research involved a survey of the experiences of debt among 1,804 people living with mental distress or using mental health services. The survey focused on their use of credit and loans over the preceding 12 months, and the impact of debt problems on health and quality of life. It also considered the respondents’ experiences – good and bad – of contact with banks, lenders and creditors, and their perception of the support available to those living with debt and mental health problems. In addition, qualitative data were gathered during a series of eight focus groups that were held across England and Wales in January and February 2008 involving 56 people with experience of debt and mental health. The report detailing the research and its findings is published on 12 May 2008. Mind will be calling on the financial industry and other creditors to work with money and debt advice services, with support from the health and social care sector, to address this pressing issue. For more information about the campaign and how you can get involved, contact Mind’s Campaigns team via action@mind.org.uk or 020 8215 2424. Infolink: Mind, 15–19 Broadway, London E15 4BQ. Telephone: 020 8519 2122. Telephone MindinfoLine: 0845 766 0163. Email: contact@mind.org.uk. Website: www.mind.org.uk. From your browser | Email the page | Email the page link | Print the page | Add page to favourites Handy guide to wellbeing series | For you, family and friends
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