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Mental Illness Statistics...

• Data from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) states that an estimated 26.2 percent of Americans ages 18 and older — about one in four adults — suffer from a diagnosable mental disorder in a given year.
• In the June 2005 Archives of General Psychiatry, Ronald Kessler, PhD, wrote that about half of all Americans will meet the criteria for some type of mental disorder sometime in their lifetime. Although they won’t all be classified as serious and persistent mental illnesses, this means that Everybody Knows Somebody©.
• According to the 2003 President's New Freedom Commission on Mental Health, in 2002, fewer than half of the adults with serious mental illnesses received treatment.

Sources for Statistics...

• NAMI National
• National Institute on Mental Health (NIMH)
• Center for Disease Control (CDC), National Center For Health Statistics
• Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), Office for Applied Statistics
• Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), National Mental Health Information Center, Center for Mental Health Services
  • Mental Health Statistics
  • State Statistics
• Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics