Mental Illness Awareness Week (MIAW) takes place October 7-13 and is an opportunity to learn more about serious mental illnesses such as major depression, bipolar disorder and schizophrenia.
Mental illnesses are medical illnesses.
One in four adults
experiences a mental health problem in any given year. One in 17 lives with
serious, chronic illness.
On average, people living with serious mental illness live
25 years less than the rest of the population. One reason is that less than one-third
of adults and less than one-half of children with a diagnosed illness receive
treatment.
When mental health care isn’t available in a community, the
results often are lost jobs and careers, broken
families, more homelessness, more welfare and much more expensive costs for
hospital emergency rooms, nursing homes, schools, police and even courts, jails
and prisons.
Learn more about mental illness support,
education and advocacy at www.nami.org or the Ohio Psychological Association's website at www.ohpsych.org.
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