* News * UK * Mental health crisis: 45 million working days LOST due to stress, anxiety and depression Mental health crisis: 45 million working days LOST due to stress, anxiety and depression MORE than 45 million working days have been lost due to stress, anxiety and depression in the past three years. -- PUBLISHED: PUBLISHED: 00:01, Sun, Apr 17, 2016 Stressed woman GETTYLast year alone a record 17 million working days were lost, costing the economy at least £2.4billion -- Last year a TUC study revealed that someone in Britain is made ill by stress at work every two minutes. IFRAME: -- eoId=4756626732001 Stressed person GETTY A TUC study revealed that someone in Britain is made ill by stress at work every two minutes -- Mr Farron It warned that the mental symptoms of stress range from sleeplessness and listlessness to clinical depression and even suicide. TUC general secretary Frances O’Grady said: “People don’t get ill from stress because they are weak but because employers aren’t doing enough to remove or control its causes. “Pressures of long working hours and low job security are being felt in offices, hospitals, schools and -- “Much more needs to be done to stop bosses treating their staff like machines. It’s in no one’s interests to have stressed out workforces. People who experience high anxiety are less productive and are more likely to take time off.” Stressed woman GETTY About 244,000 new cases of work related stress and depression were diagnosed in the UK last year Stressed woman GETTY Anxiety UK claims there are many more victims who are suffering in silence About 244,000 new cases of work related stress, depression or anxiety were diagnosed in the UK last year – 668 a day or one every 2.1 minutes. -- * Best foods to help you sleep * 10 ways to DE-STRESS your hectic life * Soaring levels of sick days in the civil service -- Brexit Christmas tips stress free festive period Christmas tips stress free festive period NEVER let the in-laws in the kitchen: Tips for a stress-free Christmas revealed