Mental disorders affect one in four of us over a lifetime. It’s a huge cost to our health care systems and to the global economy, and it affects some of the world’s most vulnerable people.
Yet it is severely underfunded, leaving millions of people without treatment.
In 10 things to know about mental health, we demonstrate why we urgently need funders and governments to prioritise spending on this much neglected issue.










Jessica Mackenzie, Christie Kesner, Louise Ball, Hannah Caddick