The cost of living crisis is deepening mental health problems for many people in the UK, with financial stresses rising rapidly just at the point when the pandemic, and the threat of isolation and lockdown, appeared to be subsiding.
Soaring inflation, coupled with uncertainty about jobs and income, is causing people to have to make “impossible choices” between heating and eating, and putting “huge pressure” on those with mental health problems, says Vicky Nash, head of policy and campaigns at Mind.
