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Not mad – just sad

O uch.

That was my feeling last month, listening to Mel Stride, the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, at the Conservative Party conference.

Mr Stride said growing social awareness of mental-health problems is itself contributing to a rise in diagnoses and an increase in unemployment.

Figures from the Office for National Statistics for August this year showed that the number of adults with anxiety or depression who are no longer working jumped by 43 per cent to 1.35

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