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The Mirror has carried out exclusive analysis to assess the state of the nation’s mental wellbeing - including how many people are depressed and on anti-depressants living near you.

It was undertaken to recognise World Mental Health Day - which is held on this date (October 10) every year.

If you've ever wondered what mental health care is like near you in England - now you can find out using our easy-to-use widget.

Just type in your post code below and you will get a score for your region.

It will also tell you the percentage of adults with depression that live near you - and the number of antidepressant prescriptions made last year.

It also identifies the number of people locally in touch with mental health care professionals and receiving treatment.

And the percentage of people who reported that their level of anxiety and/or depression fell signifcantly.

Our survey identified that Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale - in the north of England - have the worst mental health problems in England.

Our analysis lays bare just how bad mental health is in these towns north of Manchester - it had the worst score overall based on these four measures out of more than 200 NHS areas in England.

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The Mirror’s exclusive analysis also identified Stoke, Tameside and Glossop, Blackpool and St Helens as having serious issues with mental health.

Eighteen out of the bottom twenty areas were in the North of England, with Stoke and North Staffordshire the other two.

Thanet in Kent had the worst mental health in the south of England.

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Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale had a very high rate of adults suffering from depression.

Some 10.6% of adults were battling depression in the area, according to the latest figures available on Public Health England’s data atlas - the fifth highest in the country.

Worse, separate data from the NHS shows that very few people in the area make a recovery from anxiety and depression when they get treated.

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The latest data from the NHS shows that a very low 17.6% of people who finished treatment for mental health in Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale posted a ‘reliable recovery’ in 2014/15 - the worst figure in the entire country.

The recovery rate is measured via questionnaires that are given to patients asking them to rate their levels of anxiety and depression.

If they feel significantly less anxious or depressed and if their overall level of anxiety and depression fall within ‘normal’ levels then they are said to have recovered reliably.

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That meant that almost five in six people who went into treatment in Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale either got worse, didn’t feel any significantly different or didn’t feel better reliably enough by the end.

It had the seventh highest rate of people in contact with mental health services and a relatively high rate of antidepressant prescriptions.

The table of the worse regions for mental health is as follows:

Mental health rank in England, where 1 = worst, out of 209 Clinical Commissioning Groups.

1. NHS Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale CCG

2. NHS Stoke On Trent CCG

3. NHS Tameside And Glossop CCG

4. NHS Blackpool CCG

5. NHS St Helens CCG

6. NHS North Manchester CCG

7. NHS Knowsley CCG

8. NHS Liverpool CCG

9. NHS Blackburn With Darwen CCG

10. NHS Oldham CCG

11. NHS South Manchester CCG

12. NHS South Sefton CCG

13. NHS Salford CCG

14. NHS Lancashire North CCG

15. NHS North Staffordshire CCG

16. NHS Scarborough And Ryedale CCG

17. NHS Durham Dales, Easington and Sedgefield CCG

18. NHS Barnsley CCG

19. NHS Stockport CCG

20. NHS Greater Preston CCG