Some Alarming Facts About Mental Illness In America

Mental illness is a increasingly widespread in the U.S., affecting around one in five American adults every year, according to survey from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration Of the 45.6 million adults who had diagnosable mental illness in 2011, 11.5 million had serious mental illness. Other surveys put those numbers even higher. Mental illness has been on the rise over the past few decades. Between 1987 and 2007, the number of people with mental disorders that qualify...