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think.” Around one in 10 women typically experiences a mental illness when pregnant or in the first year after giving birth.
Amid an upsurge in worries over the virus the duchess wanted to encourage women to seek help and support from
NHS maternal mental health experts.
She said: “Parents do need to go out and reach out to those who can support them, particularly those who can provide knowledgeable resources as well.
“It’s important to access and reach out for help when you do need it.”
She also advocated talking to others at the same stage of parenthood.
She said: “You speak to six mums and all of you realise you are going through the same thing.
“Before that, you’re worried that you’re the only one who’s going through it.
“You may feel that you’re the only one actually experiencing something.
“But to be able to share it does provide that normality and normalising of some of these anxieties and these worries.”
● For more information visit bestbeginnings.org.uk/charities-uk-support made it “more likely” the Government would deal with the pandemic successfully, with only 14 per cent saying “less likely”.
But there was nervousness about relaxing the lockdown, with more than six in 10 people (62 per cent) being “worried that if the current measures are relaxed at all, it will do worse damage to the UK’S economy and overall health”.
There is also significant confidence in the scientific advice the Government uses as the basis for its decisions. More than one in five people (22 per cent) were highly confident, 67 per cent were moderately or somewhat confident, and just 12 per cent were not at all confident about it.
However, just one in three people (34 per cent) were optimistic the economy could quickly recover when the lockdown ends. Nearly half (48 per cent) were not.
The poll also confirmed that the World Health Organization (WHO) has taken a hammering as a result of the crisis.
Six out of 10 Britons (57 per cent) said the pandemic had “highlighted the failings” of the WHO and shown “why it needs to be replaced with something else”.