Common mental disorder: experience and treatment 2014

This statistic displays the experience and treatment of common mental illness in the last 12 months in England in 2014, by gender. In the past year 20 percent of men and 22 percent of women took medication for a diagnosed common mental disorder.

Experience and treatment of common mental disorders in past year in England in 2014, by gender*

Characteristic	Men	Women
Experience condition**	50%	50%
Took medication only	20%	22%
Had therapy or other treatment only	7%	7%
Both medication and therapy/other treatment	14%	15%
No medication/treatment	59%	56%

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Release date

December 2015

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Region

United Kingdom (England)

Survey time period

2014

Number of respondents

1,322*

Method of interview

Omnibus survey

Supplementary notes

* Weighted bases where n (men)=456 and n (women)=866.

The source provides the following information:
* "Common mental disorders include phobia, panic attacks, post-traumatic stress, generalised anxiety disorder, depression (including post-natal depression) and obsessive compulsive disorder.
** Experience of a condition may be reported independently from whether or not any medication or treatment was received. Therefore the category 'experience condition' may or may not overlap with the next four mutually exclusive categories relating to medication or treatment.

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