May is National Mental Health Awareness month and according to the National Alliance on Mental Illness here are 7 facts you should know:
- 1 in 5 Children ages 13-18 have or will have a serious illness
- 50% of all lifetime cases of mental illness begins by age 14 and 75% by age 24
- Suicide is the 3rd leading cause of death in youth ages 10-24
- 90% of those who died by suicide had an underlying mental illness
- 43.8 million adults experience mental illness in a given year
- 1 min 5 Americans experience a mental illness
- 1 in 17 lives with a serious mental illness such as schizophrenia or bipolar disorder
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