1 May. One in Five.
Today, I am asking you to sit with 20%. Not as a number. As people. That is 1 in 5 Australians who experienced mental ill-health in the past 12 months, an estimated 4.3 million people. Over a lifetime, more than 40% of us will experience a mental disorder. The cost of doing too little is enormous. Mental illness costs Australia up to $220 billion every year. Yet only a small share of health funding goes to mental health, and even less to research. At One in Five, we believe research is the...