Having a mental illness doesn’t mean you can’t work – I’m proof | Hannah Jane Parkinson

Government research has confirmed that mental health costs the nation £99bn. It doesn’t make financial sense for employers to discriminate

It’s official. The government-commissioned Thriving at Work report has found that many of us are not, in fact, thriving at work. About 300,000 of us with long-term mental health problems lose their job each year in the UK. For me, this is news alongside sky is blue; Liverpool FC are perpetually underachieving; David Davis understands the Brexit process as much as he does superstring theory.

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There’s a crisis safety net when individuals reach the nadir, and that’s it

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