There is a mental health crisis in the creative industry; it needs to be fixed!

The likelihood of a mental health problem in the creative sector is three times that of the general population.

Calm installed 84 male suicide sculptures on ITV Tower to raise awareness of the number of men who take their lives every week.

The most common diagnosed disorders were anxiety (36%) and depression (32%).

What is really worrying is that there are high proportions (60%) reported having had suicidal thoughts, 37% had made a plan for suicide and 16% of workers had made a suicide attempt in their lifetime.

For an industry that talks a lot about workplace culture; isn’t time we started actually giving a fuck about our staff and their mental wellbeing?

Start the conversation today; it could save a life!

*Research was released by Ulster University in March 2018.