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A new study shows that experiencing a burglary is a serious threat afterbeforebyforfrominoftoup people's mental health. The survey is afterbeforebyforfrominoftoup the British charity Victim Support and the home security company ADT. Researchers interviewed 1,000 people who had been burgled. They found that a quarter afterbeforebyforfrominoftoup them suffered afterbeforebyforfrominoftoup anxiety or forms afterbeforebyforfrominoftoup depression, while a further 25 per cent felt saddened afterbeforebyforfrominoftoup the thought they could no longer protect their home and family. The researchers said that feelings afterbeforebyforfrominoftoup insecurity set in for many people afterbeforebyforfrominoftoup a robbery. They reported that 37 per cent afterbeforebyforfrominoftoup burglary victims suddenly became afraid afterbeforebyforfrominoftoup being mugged in the streets, something they had not feared afterbeforebyforfrominoftoup being burgled.

Professor Paula Nicolson afterbeforebyforfrominoftoup the British Psychological Society warned that people and the police underestimate how serious a crime burglary is. Many people fail to realise it can leave people traumatised. She said: "Burglary is frequently seen as a minor crime – one that may be resolved and forgotten afterbeforebyforfrominoftoup the victim….However psychologically and emotionally the experience afterbeforebyforfrominoftoup being burgled is likely to have a severe emotional outcome afterbeforebyforfrominoftoup many victims who were, afterbeforebyforfrominoftoup to then, leading ordinary lives." She added the undue trauma resulted afterbeforebyforfrominoftoup some people afterbeforebyforfrominoftoup "the compulsion to move house, depression, anxiety, sleeplessness and even marital breakdown".