New figures released to Newstalk Breakfast show there were over 2,000 more appointments scheduled with HSE’s mental health services compared to this time last year. 

There were 105,403 appointments including face to face, online and phone between January and the end of June 2020 compared with 103,276 for the same period in 2019. 

Stella O’Malley, psychotherapist and author of 'Fragile' joined us.