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• 80% of teenage girls suffer serious mental illness after sexual assault

  22-07-2018 18:09
  Study finds victims had anxiety, depression and post-traumatic stress disorder months after being assaultedFour out of five teenage girls who have been sexually assaulted are suffering from crippling mental health problems months after their attack, new research has found.
  Victims were found to have anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder and other serious conditions four to five months after being assaulted.Related: 'The ways we are taught to be a girl': a writer reckons with childh
  
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• 80% of teenage girls suffer serious mental health problems after sexual assault

  22-07-2018 18:09
  Study finds victims had anxiety, depression and post-traumatic stress disorder months after being assaultedFour out of five teenage girls who have been sexually assaulted are suffering from crippling mental health problems months after their attack, new research has found.
  Victims were found to have anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder and other serious conditions four to five months after being assaulted.Related: 'The ways we are taught to be a girl': a writer reckons with childh
  
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• Our mental health is fracturing. Here’s what I wish I’d done...

  22-07-2018 06:59
  Britain is failing to cope with unprecedented levels of depression. But we can take action to make our own lives betterWe are fighting the wrong war. People are suffering from mental distress on a scale perhaps never seen before. They wait months for cursory medical intervention, and have to travel hundreds of miles for a rare inpatient bed. In response, all government does is promise something it can’t and won’t deliver: parity of esteem.Our mental health is fracturing, here and now
  
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