Miserable Brits need treatment

"A network of 250 treatment centres staffed by 10,000 therapists are needed urgently to tackle the epidemic of unhappiness that is Britain's "biggest social problem", a senior Government adviser says today. The Labour peer and adviser to No 10, Lord Layard...said: 'At any one time there are one million people with clinical depression and four million with clinical anxiety states. At present, people with depression or anxiety generally get pills or nothing. Only one in 10 people with these conditions get to see a therapist.'"

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