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Between 10 and 20% of women in the UK develop a mental illness during pregnancy or within the first year after having a baby.
Most sufferers are unemployed and on benefit; there is an increased risk of suicide; life expectancy is lower; and their children are more likely to develop a mental illness and be taken into care.
Prof Lesley Regan, the president of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, said: "Around one in five women develop a mental illness during pregnancy or in the first year after delivering their baby, and one quarter of all maternal deaths between six weeks and a year after childbirth are related to mental health problems.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDCC) find that about half of U.S. adults will develop a mental illness during their lifetime.
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These children report a higher risk of developing a mental illness than other children.
When a college student develops a mental illness, she said, friends are often the only ones who notice.
In the best study following children from an early age, nine out of 10 who were maltreated had developed a mental illness by the age of 18.
The launch of TV series such as 'My Mad Fat Diary' have raised the profile of mental illness but unfortunately this hasn't lead to universities being any more prepared than I was when I developed a mental illness.
And let me just give you a more concrete example what might happen in terms of someone who develops a mental illness: they may not be able to work, for example, because of the illness directly, or because of the significant discrimination associated with having a mental illness.
I'm surprised that this highly visible effect of inequality isn't discussed more often, given what we know from other statistics: the poorest fifth of adults are at significantly higher risk of developing a mental illness, while a 2011 survey suggested that people from minority ethnic backgrounds are six times more likely to be admitted to hospital because of mental health problems.
"I think this young man is developing a mental illness of hypomanic nature," he wrote in his report.
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