Depression

Depression is a mood disorder that manifests in symptoms including feelings of sadness or emptiness, lack of interest in activities, change in weight or appetite, irritability, loss of energy, and some may have recurring thoughts of death or suicide.

Anxiety

Anxiety is an emotion often recognized by feelings of tension, worried thoughts, and physical changes like increased blood pressure or muscle tension. People with anxiety disorders usually have recurring intrusive thoughts or concerns. This may cause them to avoid situations or environments out of worry. They may also experience physical symptoms such as sweating, trembling, dizziness, or a rapid heartbeat.

Trauma

Trauma results from an event, series of events, or set of circumstances that is experienced by an individual as physically or emotionally harmful or life-threatening. It has lasting adverse effects on the individual's functioning and mental, physical, social, emotional, or spiritual well-being.

Serious Mental Illness

Serious Mental Illness (SMI) is defined as a mental, behavioral, or emotional disorder resulting in serious functional impairment which substantially interferes with or limits one or more major life activities. The burden of mental illnesses is particularly concentrated among those who experience disability due to SMI.

STATISTICS

SUICIDE

Suicide is defined as death caused by self-directed injurious behavior with the intent to die as a result of the behavior. There is no single cause of suicide. It most often occurs when stressors exceed the current coping abilities of someone suffering from a mental health condition.

Suicide is the 2nd leading cause of death among people aged 10-34 in the U.S.
Suicide is the 10th leading cause of death in the U.S.
The overall suicide rate in the U.S. has increased by 31% since 2001
46% of people who die by suicide had a diagnosed mental health condition
90% of people who die by suicide had shown symptoms of a mental health condition, according to interviews with family, friends, and medical professionals (also known as a psychological autopsy)
Lesbian, gay, and bisexual youth are 4x more likely to attempt suicide than straight youth
75% of people who die by suicide are male
Transgender adults are nearly 12x more likely to attempt suicide than the general population
Annual prevalence of serious thoughts of suicide by U.S. demographic group:
4.3% of all adults
11.0% of young adults aged 18-25
17.2% of high school students
47.7% of lesbian, gay, and bisexual high school students
In 2017, there were more than twice as many suicides (47,173) in the United States as there were homicides (19,510)
In 2018, 48,344 Americans died by suicide
In 2017, there were an estimated 1,400,000 suicide attempts
On average, there are 129 suicides per day

SELF-HARM

Self-harm is the act of deliberately inflicting pain and damage to one's own body. Self-harm most often refers to cutting, burning, scratching, and other forms of external injury; it can, however, also include internal or emotional harm.

17% will self-harm in a lifetime
The average age of first self-harm is 13 yrs old
50% seek help from friends and not professionals
50% in females, according to emergency room trends
45% use cutting
55% of people who self-harm have an eating disorder
Self-harm is not recognized as a mental health condition
1 in 12 teenagers self-harm
Adults. Aside from very young children, adults are the least likely group of people to follow through with self-injury. Only about 5% of adults have self-injured in their lifetime
Teens. Adolescents have the highest rate of self-injurious behaviors, with about 17% admitting to self-injury at least once in their life
College Students. Studies find that about 15% of college students report engaging in self-harm
Women vs. Men. While women are more likely to self-harm, males may represent at least 35% of total self-injury cases. Men are more likely to underreport self-injury and have other people hurt them than women
Sexual Minorities. Gay and bisexual people are at a high risk of self-injury. Nearly half of all bisexual females engage in self-injury

MENTAL ILLNESS

Any Mental Illness (AMA) is defined as a mental, behavioral, or emotional disorder. AMI can vary in impact, ranging from no impairment to mild, moderate, and even severe impairment.

1 in 5 U.S. adults experiences mental illness each year
1 in 25 U.S. adults experiences serious mental illness each year
1 in 6 U.S. youth aged 6-17 experience a mental health disorder each year
50% of all lifetime mental illness begins by age 14, and 75% by age 24
792 million people in 2017 lived with a mental health disorder. This is slightly more than one in ten people globally (10.7%)
19.1% of U.S. adults experienced mental illness in 2018 (47.6 million people). This represents 1 in 5 adults.
4.6% of U.S. adults experienced serious mental illness in 2018 (11.4 million people). This represents 1 in 25 adults.
16.5% of U.S. youth aged 6-17 experienced a mental health disorder in 2016 (7.7 million people)
43.3% of U.S. adults with mental illness received treatment in 2018
64.1% of U.S. adults with serious mental illness received treatment in 2018
50.6% of U.S. youth aged 6-17 with a mental health disorder received treatment in 2016
The average delay between the onset of mental illness symptoms and treatment is 11 years
People with depression have a 40% higher risk of developing cardiovascular and metabolic diseases than the general population. People with serious mental illness are nearly twice as likely to develop these conditions
19.3% of U.S. adults with mental illness also experienced a substance use disorder in 2018 (9.2 million individuals)
The rate of unemployment is higher among U.S. adults who have a mental illness (5.8%) compared to those who do not (3.6%)
High school students with significant symptoms of depression are more than twice as likely to drop out compared to their peers

ADDICTION

Addiction is a psychological and physical inability to stop consuming a chemical, drug, activity, or substance, even though it is causing psychological and physical harm.

1 in 3 (33%) of families are affected by substance use disorder
Only 1 in 10 (10%) seek treatment
The third leading cause of death in the United States
$193 billion estimated annual cost to businesses due to employee substance use
Overdose is now the #1 cause of accidental death in the United States, recently surpassing car accidents. Every four minutes a parent loses a child to addiction, and the rising cost of addiction now exceeds $400 billion a year
According to the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), 19.7 million American adults (aged 12 and older) battled a substance use disorder in 2017.
Almost 74% of adults suffering from a substance use disorder in 2017 struggled with an alcohol use disorder.
About 38% of adults in 2017 battled an illicit drug use disorder.
That same year, 1 out of every 8 adults struggled with both alcohol and drug use disorders simultaneously.
In 2017, 8.5 million American adults suffered from both a mental health disorder and a substance use disorder, or co-occurring disorders.
Drug abuse and addiction cost American society more than $740 billion annually in lost workplace productivity, healthcare expenses, and crime-related costs.
In 2017, approximately 4% of the American adolescent population age 12 to 17 suffered from a substance use disorder; this equals 992,000 teens or 1 in 25 people in this age group.
About 443,000 adolescents age 12 to 17 had an alcohol use disorder in 2017, or 1.8% of adolescents.
An estimated 741,000 adolescents suffered from an illicit drug use disorder in 2017, or about 3% of this population.
About 5.1 million young adults age 18 to 25 battled a substance use disorder in 2017, which equates to 14.8% of this population and about 1 in 7 people.
About 3.4 million young adults age 18 to 25 had an alcohol use disorder in 2017, or about 10% of young adults.
About 2.5 million young adults had an illicit drug use disorder in 2017, or about 7.3% of this population.
Heroin use among young adults between 18 and 25 years old doubled in the past decade.
Approximately 13.6 million adults age 26 or older struggled with a substance use disorder in 2017, or 6.4% of this age group.
About 10.6 million adults age 26 and older had an alcohol use disorder in 2017, or about 5% of this age group.
About 4.3 million adults age 26 or older had an illicit drug use disorder in 2017, or 2% of this age group.
Genetics, including the impact of one’s environment on gene expression, account for about 40% to 60% of a person’s risk of addiction.
Environmental factors that may increase a person’s risk of addiction include a chaotic home environment and abuse, parent’s drug use and attitude toward drugs, peer influences, community attitudes toward drugs, and poor academic achievement.
Teenagers and people with mental health disorders are more at risk for drug use and addiction than other populations

Resources for this page:

http://www.nimh.nih.gov

https://www.nami.org

https://afsp.org

https://www.therecoveryvillage.com

https://americanaddictioncenters.org