Now that Mental Health Awareness Week has drawn to a close, it is imperative that the conversations around mental health continues and grows.

Today marks the end of Mental Health Awareness Week in the UK, which has successfully sparked many conversations around the prevalence, treatment and stigma around the UK’s spectrum of mental health conditions, ranging from depression and anxiety to OCD.

But the conversation cannot stop. It is reported that one in five Brits suffer from symptoms of depression and the OECD has reported that mental illness costs the economy a staggering £94 billion annually.

With the number of adults suffering from mental health conditions and it being such a cost to the UK economy, we need to ask if the current mainstream treatments are working?

Research highlighting that the conversation is just beginning

Depression treatment specialists, Smart TMS, unveils exclusive research on the nation’s attitudes towards depression, mental health and its treatments.

The exclusive research found the following: