If you walk into a secondary school with 1,000 pupils, you are likely to find 50 who are seriously depressed, 100 in significant distress, up to 20 with an obsessive-compulsive disorder and up to 10 girls with an eating disorder.
These figures, from the children's mental health charity Young Minds, are backed up by others from the Government. According to Office for National Statistics research in 1999, 13 per cent of boys and 10 per cent of girls aged 11 to 15 suffer from a "significant mental health disorder". And NOP research commissioned by Mind Out For Mental Health, the Department of Health's anti-stigma campaign, shows that a quarter of 15 to 21-year-olds are worried about the mental health of a young person they know.
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