Welcoming people with mental health problems into mainstream market research
Ruth Stevenson
Ruthless Research
The incidence of mental health problems
There are many different kinds of mental health problems that people experience to varying degrees. These include anxiety, dementia, depression, bipolar disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, schizophrenia, self-harm and stress.
According to the Mental Health Foundation (2011) one in four people will experience some kind of mental health problem in the course of a year; mixed anxiety and depression is the most common mental disorder in Britain; and the UK has one of the highest rates of self-harm in Europe, at...