Averil Leimon: Stressing the obvious

On World Mental Health Day, we are yet again lamenting the levels of stress, rampant in the UK. Statistics that represent a loss to employers of tens of billions annually, wash over us, too huge to make any sense. Perhaps the fact that one in six of us reported mental health problems in the last week alone, makes it more real. The loss to individuals of quality of life, to businesses of skilled talent, through poor functioning presenteeism, or sickness absence and to our economy, is staggering but we have heard it all before. And one intervention after another, a plethora of reports a...