United States - The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) announced roughly 50 million people, or one in five, are disproportionately suffering from a mental illness. The majority of that number are either young adults or women.
Women are more likely than men to be affected, according to a survey conducted by the SAMHSA. Twenty-three percent of women and almost 17 percent of men have fallen prey to mental illness, while people between the ages of 18-25 suffer twice as much as those who are above the age of 50. Five percent of the population, just more than 11 million, suffer from a serious mental illness. Almost nine million adults say they had serious thoughts of suicide in the past year. Of those 2.5 million made plans to do so and just more than a million actually tried. Mental illness is described as mental, behavioral or emotional disorders, excluding developmental disorders and substance use.
Adults aren't the only ones who are going through the spike in mental illness. Eight percent of those between the ages of 12-17, almost two million, experienced major depression.
More than 67-thousand people took part in the study.
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