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1 in 4 Scots will experience a mental health problem at some point in their lives. If it doesn't happen to you it will happen to someone you know.
A high level of stigma about mental health problems exists within Scottish society. Stigma and discrimination are unjustified, unfair and can be illegal. For some people, the stigma can be more distressing than the symptoms of their mental illness.
Over 80% of people with mental ill health make a full recovery.
The overwhelming majority of people with mental health problems are neither violent or dangerous. People diagnosed with schizophrenia are 100 times more dangerous to themselves than to others.
The average secondary school of 1,000 pupils will have 50 students with depression, 10 affected by eating disorder and 5-10 attempting suicide in any one year.
About a quarter of Scotland’s population is under the age of 19. At any one time about 10% of them, that’s 125,000 young people have mental health problems which are severe enough to interfere with their daily life.
Suicide is the second most common cause of death among people under 35.
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