Some Horrifying Facts About Mental Disorders

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Some Horrifying Facts About Mental Disorders
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Spectrum Psychiatry
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One out of four adultsan average of 58 million
Americans are victims of mental disorders in a
certain year. One out of 17 lives with severe
mental illness like schizophrenia, depression or
bipolar disorder and about one out of 10 children
survive with stern mental disorders. About 2.4
million Americans, that results to 1.1 percent of
adult population suffer from schizophrenia.
5.7 million American adults are affected by
Bipolar disorder that equals to 2.6 percent of
the adult population.
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About 15 million American adults are affected
by various mental disorders. The World Health
Report presented in 2004 states that depression
is one of the principal cause of disability in
the United States as well as Canada. Anxiety
disorders, accompanied by panic disorder,
obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD),
post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD),
generalized anxiety disorder, affect about 18.7
percent of adults that equals to 40 million
persons. Anxiety disorders mostly team up with
depression or addiction disorders. About 5.2
million adults have mental disorders along with
addiction disorders. 31 percent of adults who use
homeless services have blend of these situation.
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Almost half of mental illness that lasts for
lifetime begin by 14 years and three-fourth by
24. In spite of resulting treatments, there are
long gapsat times decadesbetween the arrival of
symptoms and when people go for treatment.
Less than one-third of adults and half of
children with a mental disorder that can be
cured, receive proper services regarding mental
health. United States suffer a yearly cost of
mental illness of 79 billion approximately. Most
of the amount nearly 63 billionis towards the
loss of productivity due to illnesses.
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The risk of having chronic medical conditions
increases for the people existing with severe
mental illness. Adults with deep mental illness
die almost 25 years earlier than other people,
mostly due to medical conditions that can be
treated. Suicide is one of the leading causes
of death in the Unites States and the most common
cause of death for people aged between 10-24
years. Almost 90 percent of those who suicide
have a curable mental disorder. A report from
July 2007 indicated that male veterans are twice
as likely to die by suicide as compared with
others in the general United States population.
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24 percent of state prisoners and 21 percent of
local jail prisoners are victims of mental
illness. 70 percent of youth in juvenile justice
systems have at least one mental disorder and at
least 20 percent have experienced functional
disorders due to serious mental illness. Over
50 percent of students with a mental disorder
drop out of high school making it the highest
dropout rate due to any disability.
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