Campaign to improve mental health: cheers for the Sunday Express

Go to homes across Britain, and you'll find people struggling with mental health.A teenager with an eating disorder. A parent with a drinking problem. A friend who depressed.One of every four people suffering from these kinds of circumstances. Millions of families and deal with it every day. Even now, as a society, we still do not talk about it.Too often swept under the carpet these experiences - to deal with behind closed doors. Britain is a country open and compassionate, but we British are very special people - preferably in many cases to put on a brave face instead of the request cheers 3 help.So told the Sunday Express to address the biggest taboo in Britain. Over the coming months will crusade for better mental health lift the lid on the hidden suffering.It is the task of following the call: to remind us that improving mental health in the country is everyone's responsibility. And not only because it is the largest single cause of disability in the United Kingdom. Also costing us more than a year £ 100billion when you add in time to stop working, and Bill benefits. In addition, it costs all of us when prisoners with conditions of treatment to go ahead for reoffend.Last year I launched the Government's strategy (CF) for Mental Health with my colleague Paul Burstow. Our goal is simple but ambitious: For mental health and a long time and was a cousin of the poor in the national health system. We want to put them on an equal footing with physical health so that everyone gets the support it need.Through huge new investments, and we are rolling out. Modern treatments and one of the most effective modern treatments - to help a million people by the year 2014. We also realize that help is at a greater number of young people, because half of the world who suffer with mental health to do so before they're even 14. We provide additional funding to ensure our forces can gain access to better treatments, both when they are still in service or when they leave.