As the new school and college year gets under way, figures released last month show that three quarters of young people (77 per cent) with mental health problems have missed out on education.
The survey, by mental health anti-stigma programme Time to Change, also shows that for one in four students (24 per cent), the reason they did not go into school or college was because they were worried what other people would say about their mental health.
More than 3,000 people who have experienced mental health problems while in education were questioned as part of the survey. Fifteen per cent said they had experienced bullying as a result of mental health problems and 16 per cent revealed they had lost friends because they had opened up about their mental health problems. Furthermore, nearly a third of the students (31 per cent) had been on the receiving end of derogatory language, with respondents citing, “crazy” “mental” and “attention-seeking” as some of the most common terms used.
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