A report produced by Platform 51 (see previous item), entitled ‘Women like me: supporting wellbeing in girls and women’, warned there is evidence that women’s mental health is getting worse. ‘Policy makers need to act now to address this crisis in women’s mental health. In summary it states that ’Generations of women are in crisis due to relationship breakdown, bereavement or debt, and one in three has taken anti-depressants. More than 15 million women have suffered mental health problems of some kind, and are twice as likely as men to be depressed’. The group called on ministers to review the ‘over-reliance’ on anti-depressant drugs to treat mild and moderate mental health problems and to make counselling and psychotherapy more easily available to women.

Pray: for the recognition of problems in the care given to women’s mental health. (Ps.69:19)

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