Coping Stress Tolerance Pattern

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Coping Stress Tolerance Pattern 10
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Groups under stress?

• Stress is a mentally or emotionally disruptive
  or upsetting condition occurring in response to
  adverse external influences and capable of
  affecting physical health, usually characterized
  by increased heart rate, a rise in blood
  pressure, muscular tension, irritability, and
  depression.

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Help Lines

• Waukesha Memorial Nurse on Line
• Suicide prevention Hotline
• Teen Helpline
• Lawrence Center

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Statistics on Drug Abuse

• 73.5 of those in addiction treatment located in
  Wisconsin were male.
• 26.5 of the individuals in drug addiction
  treatment residing in Wisconsin during 2001 were
  female.
• The largest age groups admitted into to a drug
  rehab during 2001 in Wisconsin were between the
  ages of 36-40 (16.9).
• The second largest age groups attending drug
  rehabilitation in Wisconsin during 2001 were
  between the ages of 21-25 and 41-45 (13.9).
• 85.7 of the individuals in drug treatment
  located in Wisconsin during 2001 were Caucasian.

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Psychiatric Illness

• An estimated 22.1 percent of Americans ages 18
  and older - about one in five (or over 44
  million) adults - suffer from a diagnosable
  mental disorder in a given year.
• Many people suffer from more than one mental
  disorder at a given time. In particular,
  depressive illnesses tend to co-occur with
  substance abuse and anxiety disorders.
• Approximately 18.8 million American adults - or
  9.5 percent - ages 18 and over, will suffer from
  a depressive illness (major depression) each
  year.

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Suicide Rates

• More than 90 percent of people who commit suicide
  have a diagnosable mental disorder - most
  commonly a depressive disorder or a substance
  abuse disorder.
• Four times as many men than women commit suicide.
  However, women attempt suicide two to three times
  more often than men.
• The highest suicide rates in the US are found in
  Caucasian men over age 85. However, suicide is
  also one of the leading causes of death in
  adolescents and adults ages 15 to 24.

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Unemployment Rates for 2004

• Wis. Unemployment Rate 4.5
• U.S. Unemployment Rate 4.6