Facts about Mental Illness

• One in four adults—approximately 57.7 million Americans - experience a mental health disorder in a given year. One in 17 lives with a serious mental illness such as schizophrenia, major depression or bipolar disorder and about one in 10 children live with a serious mental or emotional disorder.
• Major depressive disorder affects 6.7 percent of adults, or about 4.8 million American adults. This is the leading cause of disability in the United States
  and Canada in ages between 15-44.
• Anxiety disorders, including panic disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), generalized
  anxiety disorder and phobias, affect about 18.7 percent of adults, an estimated 40 million individuals. Anxiety disorders frequently
  co-occur with depression or addiction disorders.
• Fewer than one-third of adults and one-half of children with a diagnosable mental disorder receive mental health services in a given year.
• More hospital beds are occupied by persons with serious mental illness than by persons with cancer, lung disease, and heart disease combined.
• In the United States, the annual economic, indirect cost of mental illness is estimated to be $79 billion. Most of that amount - approximately $63 billion - reflects the loss of productivity as a result of illnesses.

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