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The World Health Organization admitted that the very lockdown policies it advocated for have resulted in a rise of mental health issues.

The World Health Organization admitted that the very lockdown policies it advocated for have resulted in a rise of mental health issues.

The lockdown restrictions have seen a record number of children being referred mental health specialists in Britain.

7 May 2021 The proportion of people over the age of 16 who have experienced some form of depression has more than doubled since before the Chinese coronavirus pandemic. Figures released on Wednesday by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show that between January 27th and March 7th, 21 per cent of over-16s, which the ONS describes as “adult”, in Great Britain had “experienced some form of depression”. The British government’s statistics authority noted it was “more than double” that observed before the coronavirus pandemic, when between July 2019 and March 2020 that figure...

Number of Pre-Teens Self-Harming Doubles in Six Years 16 Feb 2021 The number of children aged nine to 12 self-harming in the UK has doubled in just six years, with indications that mental health problems are increasing amongst the very young. According to BBC Radio 4’s File on 4 programme, the number of pre-teens attending hospital after intentionally injuring themselves rose from 221 in 2013-14 to 508 in 2019-20. With population growth factored in, it results in a rate of self-harm for this age-range having doubled. Professor Keith Hawton, a specialist in suicide and self-harm at the Uni...