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The National Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare's infographic about mental illness
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A1 in 5 people suffer from mental illness; approximately 57.7 million Americans every year.
49%
$80 billion
Among Medicaid beneficiaries
with disabilities, 49% have a mental illness.
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Mental illness affects everyone across age, sex, and race.
Prevalence of Serious Mental Illness Among U.S. Adults by Sex, Age, and Race in 2008
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grade for mental healthcare
eMental illness drains our economy
of more than $80 billion every
year; 15% of the total economic
burden of all disease
f A recent study estimates that serious mental illnesses cost society $255.4 billion annually in lost earnings in the U.S.
– $255.4 billion
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More than half of all prison and jail inmates have a mental health problem
of all social security
disability payments are for
individuals with mental illness
IUp to of homeless adults
suffer from chronic alcoholism,
drug addiction, mental illness or
some combination of all three.
2 3 1 4
United States
B
Mglobally, 3 of the 6 leading
disabilities are due to mental illness
(depression, schizophrenia and
bipolar disorder)
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Our nation’s community behavioral health
organizations employ more than 250,000
people who care for 8 million adults and
children with mental and addiction disorders
Mental health treatments work
YeT go without treatment, mostly because of
inability to access care and stigma
These success rates are comparable to those for physical health care.
Major depression,
panic disorder,
OcD
bipolar Schizo-phrenia
Up to 90% of people
being treated recover
In the public system, those
with serious mental illness die
25 years sooner than the general population –
men at about age 53 and women at age 59
More than 36,000
die by suicide every year.
That’s like losing the
population of green Bay,
Wisconsin every three years.
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80%
70-80%
60-70%
41-52%
Success Rates
What you can do
asthma and diabetes
cardiovascular disease
heart disease
70% 60%
250,000 professionals
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Take a Mental health first Aid course www.mentalhealthfi rstaid.org
Advocate for better resources for mental health www.thenationalcouncil.org/cs/advocate_now
Talk to your doctor about your mental health
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effects of Mental Disorders on earnings in the United States: results from the National comorbidity Survey effects of Mental Disorders on earnings in the United States: results from the National comorbidity Survey
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