One in four adults-57.7 million Americans-experience a mental health disorder in a given year. One in 17 lives with a serious mental illness , such as schizophrenia, major depression, or Bipolar disorder and about one in ten children have a serious mental or emotional disorder.

-About 1.1% of the adult population live with schizophrenia.
-Bipolar disorder affects 5.7 million adults approximately 2.6% of the adult population per year
-Major depressive disorder affects 6.7% of adults, or about 14.8 million Amer. adults.This is the leading cause of disability in the U.S and Canada in ages between 15-44 years.

-Anxiety disorders which include panic disorder, OCD, PTSD, generalized anxiety disorder, and phobias, affect about 18.1% of adults an estimated 40 million individuals.Anxiety disorders co occur with depression.

-AN estimated 5.2 nmillion adults havve co-occuring mental health and addiction disorders. Of adults using homeless services , thirty one percent reported having a combination of these conditions.

-Half of all the lifetime cases of mental illness begin by age 14, three quarters by age 24 years. Despite effective treatments, there are long delays sometimes decades between frist onset of symptoms and when people seek and retrieve treatment.

-Fewer than one-third of adults and half of children with a diagnoseable mental disorder receive any mental health services in a given year.

– In the U.S, the annual economic, indirect cost of mental illnesses is estimated to be 79 billion. Most of that amount-approximately 63 billion-reflexs the loss of productivity as a result of illness.

-Individuals with serious mental illness face an increased risk of having chronic medical conditions. Adults with serious mental illness die 25 years younger than oyher Americans , largely due to medical conditions.

-Suicide is the 11th leading cause of death in the U.S and the third leading cause of death for ages 10-24 years. More than 90% die from suicide have a mental disorder.

-A nationwide report indicated that male veterans are twice as likely to die by suicide as compared with their civilian peers in the U.S

-Over 50 % of students with a mental disorder 14 years and older drop out of high school- the highest drop out rate of any disability group.