Mental Illness
www.nimh.nih.gov
An overview of statistics for mental illnesses. Mental illnesses are common in the United States. One in six U.S. adults lives with a mental illness (43.4 million in 2015). Mental illnesses include many different conditions that vary in degree of severity, ranging from mild to moderate to severe.

Prevalence of Any Mental Illness (AMI)

Figure 1 shows the past year prevalence of AMI among U.S. adults.
    In 2022, there were an estimated 59.3 million adults aged 18 or older in the United States with AMI. This number represented 23.1% of all U.S. adults.
    The observed prevalence of AMI was higher among females (26.4%) than males (19.7%).
    Young adults aged 18-25 years had the highest prevalence of AMI (36.2%) compared to adults aged 26-49 years (29.4%) and aged 50 and older (13.9%).
    The prevalence of AMI was highest among the adults reporting two or more races (35.2%), followed by White adults (24.6%). The prevalence of AMI was lowest among Asian adults (16.8%).
  • IronBird@lemmy.world
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    10 hours ago

    also…a complete (intentional) destruction of any sort of community via unaffordable housing (housing was more affordable during the great depression, than right now…), fostered social seperation/bubbles via algorithms, and backstabbing speculation drive that has infested every level of our economy and government to breed distrust, and of course nonexistent healthcare/job security for large sections of the population which increases stress (a known trigfer for underlying mental conditions)…