This week on social media, we gave you some staggering facts and information on mental health for Mental Illness Awareness Week and Suicide Prevention Awareness Month.
- 1 in 4 adults, 61.5 million Americans, experiences mental illness in a given year. One in 17, about 13.6 million, live with a serious illness such as schizophrenia, depression, or bipolar disorder. With statistics like those, you probably know someone suffering.
- Approximately 20% of kids ages 13-18 experience severe mental disorders in a given year.
- 70% of the youths in juvenile justice systems have at least one mental health condition, and 20% live with a severe mental illness.
- Approximately 1.1% of American adults, or 6.1 million people, live with bipolar disorder.
- Approximately 6.7% of American adults, or about 14.8 million people, live with major depression.
- 18.1% of American adults, or 42 million people live with anxiety disorders such as panic disorder, OCD, PTSD, and phobias.
- About 9.2 million adults have reoccurring mental health and addiction disorders.
- 26% of homeless adults live with serious mental illness, and 46% live with severe mental illness and/or substance abuse disorders.
- Approximately 20% of state prisoners and 21% of local jail prisoners have a “recent history” of mental health conditions.
- Approximately 60% percent of adults and half the youth with a mental illness got no help for it in the last year.
- Mood disorders like depression are the 3rd most common cause of hospitalization in the U.S. for both youths and adults.
- Serious mental illness costs America $193.2 billion in lost earnings per year.
- Suicide is the 10th leading cause of death in the U.S. above homicide, and the 3rd leading cause of death for ages 15 to 24.
- Military members are less than 1% of the population, but vets represent 20% of suicide. Each day 22 vets die from suicide.