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The impact of social factors on mental health

The charity, Mind, has warned that half of people with poor mental health have suffered suicidal thoughts and are particularly badly affected by welfare cuts to housing and social care.
More than 1,500 people who have used mental health services in the last two years were surveyed on behalf of Mind.
The government said it had increased mental health funding to an estimated Β£11.7bn last year.
Joanna Gosling spoke to Sue Jackson, who has suffered with mental health issues, Tom Pollard, Mind’s policy and campaigns manager, Jake Mills, who tried to take his own life after getting into problems with money and has since started a charity to help others and Anne Thorn, whose son took his own life - at the inquest into his death the coroner said that worry over his debt had been a major contributory factor.

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