How common are Mental Health Issues? – Mental Illness Statistics

How common are mental health issues/disorders/mental illness?  Whatever you may refer to them, they are more common that most would like to think or admit!

Whether we like it not, mental illness is in our face.  We can’t sweep mental illness under the carpet and hope it will go away.  

We need to be aware of what is happening to us, people around us, our kids and the community.  Awareness births solutions.  We have done an infographic that captures some startling stats on mental illness.

As we can see from the stats above, mental illness does not discriminate with race, country, age or sex.  Whether in Africa, Asia, Europe, etc, the statistics show that mental illness is not something that affects just a few.

Always remember to seek help.  If you are feeling suicidal, call the suicide helpline number in your city or country.  We have compiled a list of suicide helpline / hotline numbers here.

Please let us share this Infographic and create an awareness of mental illness.  THANK YOU!

About The Author

Zoe

Zoe met Eze (Chuck) in the 14th year of what turned out to be an 18 year ‘journey’ with mental illness. They got married less than a year of meeting with Zoe fully knowing Chuck had a diagnosis of mental illness. In the 18th year, Chuck defied the odds of mental illness. A consultant psychiatrist signed him off the mental health system with a bill of NO MENTAL ILLNESS. The consultant was so amazed by Chuck’s astonishing recovery that he even questioned how Chuck was diagnosed with mental illness all those years before, in the first place! Today Chuck is free from medication, its dependency and hospitalizations. Zoe’s award nominated book, DEFYING THE ODDS, chronicles the highs and ‘lows’ of this journey. Zoe, often writing from the standpoint of a caregiver, clearly understands that mental illness does not only affect an individual challenged with the disease, but also families, marriages and society as a whole.

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