Mental Disorders. Selected Facts

Published on Monday, October 24th, 2011 at 4:39 pm and is filed under Mental Health

450 million people worldwide are suffering from one or another mental illness. Many people suffer at once by several types of mental illness.

Mental disorders occupy four of the ten positions in the list of the main causes of incapacity to work in developed countries (major depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia and obsessive-compulsive disorder).

The most common mental disorders – the so-called anxiety disorders: panic disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder and various phobias.

90% of people who commit suicide have depression or another diagnosable mental illness or are in drug or alcohol addiction.

In some countries, deaths due to suicide exceed deaths from AIDS and some cancers.

Men die from suicide four times more than women, although women are making three times more attempts to commit suicide.

Suicide – the third leading cause of death among people aged 15-24 years.

Attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder affects approximately every six months, 4.1% of children and adolescents from 9 to 17 years. Boys suffer from it 2-3 times more often than girls.

Approximately 10% of patients with memory loss or other signs of dementia actually suffer from reversible diseases such as metabolic disorders, depression, intoxication or vitamin deficiency.

Almost at 90% of people with Alzheimer’s disease are observed depressive syndromes (25% – severe depression).

The incidence of Alzheimer’s disease in the age group over 65 years grows to twice every five years.

One of 33 children and one of eight teenagers are affected of depression.

Women suffer from depression almost twice as often as men.

PMS suffer from up to 75% of women of reproductive age. In 60% of women with severe PMS, there are mental illnesses.

Premenstrual dysphoria – is a severe form of PMS that affects 8% of women.

About the author: Michael Newman is the founder and the author of this psychology dedicated blog. He is a psychologist leading training sessions, an expert in NLP (neuro-linguistic programming), transpersonal psychology and Eastern philosophy.

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