Statistics related to mental health disorders:

(From the National Institute of Mental Health)

• More than two million American adults are affected by schizophrenia each year, with one in 10 committing suicide.
• Schizophrenia is responsible for 22 percent of all mental illness costs in this country, yet only one percent of the population has the disease.
• Almost all people who commit suicide have a diagnosable mental disorder, most commonly depression or a substance abuse disorder.
• Nearly 5.3 million American adults have a social phobia in a given year.
• Anxiety disorders cost over $4 billion each year.
• In the United States, 5.2 million people have post-traumatic stress disorder in a given year.
• Depression is the leading cause of disability worldwide in persons older than five years old, and costs this country close to $43 billion each year in lost productivity and absenteeism.