Olympic champion speaks out about experience of depression as new figures reveal mental health crisis among girlsDame Kelly Holmes has spoken about how she self-harmed at the height of her athletic career as figures emerged showing that mental health problems are rising sharply among teenage girls and young women. Mental health specialists said it was a “deeply worrying” trend that was far less pronounced among boys of the same age. Holmes shared an image taken immediately after she was injured during the World Athletics Championships in 1997. She added: “The scissors were in the bathroom and I used them to release the anguish that I had. There is always a light at the end of the tunnel.”Becky Randall, the co-founder of Health and Wellbeing Live, said: “[Kelly] struggled but she kept going.

Source: The Guardian September 24, 2017 16:18 UTC