An estimated 26.2
percent of Americans ages 18 and older - about one in four adults - suffer
from a diagnosable mental disorder in a given year. This figure translates
to 57.7 million people.
Anxiety
Disorders
Anxiety
Disorders are the most common mental illness*in
the U.S. affecting 40 million (18.1%) of the adult U.S. population (age
18 and older) in a given year.
Anxiety disorders
frequently co-occur with depressive disorders or substance abuse. Most
people with one anxiety disorder also have another anxiety disorder.
Types of disorders -Numbers and percentages refer to adult U.S. population affected:
- Generalized Anxiety
Disorder: 6.8 million, 3.1%.
- Obsessive Compulsive
Disorder: 2.2 million, 1.0%.
- Panic Disorder:
6 million, 2.7%.
- Posttraumatic Stress
Disorder: 7.7 million, 3.5%.
- Social Anxiety
Disorder: 15 million, 6.8%.
- Specific Phobia
affects: 19 million, 8.7%.
- Any Phobia (Social
Anxiety Disorder, Specific Phobia, Agoraphobia) affects 36 million (16.3%)
of adult Americans.
Bipolar Disorder
Bipolar
disorder affects approximately 5.7 million American adults, or about 2.6
percent of the U.S. Population age 18 and older in a given year.
Bipolar disorder is
commonly misdiagnosed. The average patient receives 3.5 misdiagnoses and consults four physicians before obtaining
an accurate diagnosis.
Bipolar disorder
and suicide
- Approximately 1
in 5 people with bipolar disorder eventually commit suicide, a rate
30 times higher than the general population.
- 20-50% of people
with bipolar disorder attempt suicide **at
least once.
Depression
- More Americans
suffer from depression than coronary heart disease (7 million), cancer
(6 million) and AIDS (200,000) combined.
- Approximately 20.9
million, or about 9.5 percent of American adults have a depressive disorder
in any given year.
- Major depressive
disorder affects approximately 14.8 million American adults, or about
6.7 percent of the U.S. population age 18 and older in a given year.
- Major Depressive
Disorder is the leading cause of disability in the U.S. for ages 15-44.
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Suicide
- Every 18
minutes in the United States, someone dies by suicide.
- In 2002,
there were 31,655 suicides in the United States.
- More than
90 percent of people who kill themselves have a diagnosable mental
disorder, commonly a depressive disorder or a substance-abuse
disorder.
- In 2002,
132,353 individuals were hospitalized following suicide attempts.
- Suicide is
the eighth leading cause of death for all U.S. men.
- Males are
four times more likely to die from suicide than females.
- Suicide is
the third leading cause of death among young people ages 15 to
24 (second leading in some western states.)
- In 2001,
5,393 Americans over age 65 committed suicide. Of those, 85% (4,589)
were men and 15% (804) were women.
- The highest
suicide rates in the U.S. are found in white men over age 85.
- Suicide rates
in the United States are lowest in the winter and highest in the
spring, despite popular reports to the contrary.
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Sources
American Foundation for Suicide Prevention
Anxiety
Disorders Association of America
Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is one of the 13 major operating
components of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS),--National
Center for Health Statistics
Mental Disorders
in America, a report by The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH),
a component of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Mental Health America
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