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BipolarLife 101 provides online mental health support along with online tools such as mental health articles, blogs and more to help those battling mental health issues. BipolarLife101 helps people learn to live life with a mental illness, strives to help end stigma, and assist the community, friends and family gain a better understanding of mental health issues.
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Ryan S
30 December 2018
Manic depression effects or Bipolar depression is actually considered as one of the worst type of d...
Ryan S
21 December 2018
Studies have shown that about 20 million Americans receive some form of depression treatment on an ...
Ryan S
17 December 2018
If you have depression, or at least you think you have one, you must realize that you should not di...
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Mental Health Stats
- Approximately 1 in 5 adults in the U.S.—43.8 million, or 18.5%—experiences mental illness in a given year.
- 1.1% of adults in the U.S. live with schizophrenia.
- 2.6% of adults in the U.S. live with bipolar disorder.
- 6.9% of adults in the U.S.—16 million—had at least one major depressive episode in the past year.
- 18.1% of adults in the U.S. experienced an anxiety disorder such as posttraumatic stress disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder and specific phobias.
- Among the 20.2 million adults in the U.S. who experienced a substance use disorder, 50.5%—10.2 million adults—had a co-occurring mental illness.
- More than 90% of children who die by suicide have a mental health condition.
- Each day an estimated 18-22 veterans die by suicide.
- Only 41% of adults in the U.S. with a mental health condition received mental health services in the past year.
- Just over half (50.6%) of children aged 8-15 received mental health services in the previous year.
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