The short answer is a lot more common than you think.
The long answer:
- Nearly 1 in 5 Americans live with a mental health condition in any given year.
- Almost half of Americans will have a mental health condition at some point in their lives. Half of those will experience a mental illness by age 14.
- People who identify as women, BIPOC, and members of the LGBTQ+ community, are more likely to experience mental illness due to a variety of systemic barriers.
- Most people who experience mental illnesses do not receive treatment.
- Many people don’t even know they have a mental illness. It can take years from the time mental illness appears to the time it gets diagnosed—if it gets diagnosed at all.
Mental illness is treatable. In addition to medical treatments like medication and therapy, there are many lifestyle changes you can make to improve your mental health.
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- Ferrari et al. (2013). Burden of depressive disorders by country, sex, age, and year: findings from the global burden of disease study 2010. PLOS Medicine, 10(11). Retrieved from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24223526
- Kessler et al. (2007). Age of onset of mental disorders: A review of recent literature. Current Opinion in Psychiatry, 20(4), pp. 359-364. Retrieved from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1361014/
- Mental Health America. (2019). Quick Facts and Statistics About Mental Health. Obtenido de https://www.mhanational.org/mentalhealthfacts
- National Institute of Mental Health. (2019). Mental Health Information: Statistics: Mental Illness. Obtenido de https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/statistics/mental-illness.shtml
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