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Why are mental health problems so common?

Nick Clegg's told 5 live Breakfast how the government's going to improve access to therapy for young people.

One in four of us experience a mental heath problem at some point in our lives. One in four women and one in 10 men are affected by depression, while three children in every classroom have a mental health problem.

Nicky Campbell takes calls on what it's like to have (in some cases very serious) mental health problems and to work in hospitals or counselling.

Hear from people who had spent years trying to cope with mental illness in their family and one man who had been brought up in a very wealthy family, had a good job but ended up homeless because of his depression.

A number of the people we hear from blame the care and support system. Some callers say that mental health problems are, in origin, like physical ones (they start with a chemical imbalance, for example), and a failure to understand this is part of the problem.