“I would cry and be upset and I just didn’t know why," reflected Chris Phillips from Carmarthen, on when he first realised something was not quite right with the way he was feeling. "Eventually I went to the doctors and they said I had depression, and I ended up having 12 counselling sessions."
Chris, from Carmarthen, is among the one in four people across Wales and England who now have mental health problems, most of whom don’t or can’t get the help they need.
A poll commissioned by the Royal College of Physicians in 2022 found that 60 per cent of people in Wales felt their health had been negatively affected by the ongoing cost-of-living crisis. For men, the issue of depression, anxiety and other problems associated with mental health seems to be particularly prevalent. You can get the latest WalesOnline newsletters e-mailed to you directly for free by signing up here.
