Mental Health Information

Mental illnesses are medical illnesses that can often profoundly disrupt a person’s thinking, feeling, mood, and ability to relate to others.
Mental illnesses include such illnesses as bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, major depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, anxiety disorders including post-traumatic stress disorder, and other severe and persistent mental illnesses.
Mental illnesses can affect persons of any age, race, religion, or socioeconomic status.
Treatment works for most people living with mental illness, and an array of services and supports including access to appropriate medication and peer-support service are necessary to ensure recovery.

Mental illnesses are medical illnesses that can often profoundly disrupt a person’s thinking, feeling, mood, and ability to relate to others.
Mental illnesses include such illnesses as bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, major depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, anxiety disorders including post-traumatic stress disorder, and other severe and persistent mental illnesses.
Treatment works for most people living with mental illness, and an array of services and supports including access to appropriate medication and peer-support service are necessary to ensure recovery.
Mental illnesses fall along a continuum of severity.
According to the most recent prevalence information, in the United States today approximately 26.2 percent of adults 18 and over struggle with a diagnosable psychiatric condition in a given year.
Mental illnesses strike individuals in the prime of their lives, often during adolescence and young adulthood. All ages are susceptible, but the young and the old are especially vulnerable.
The best treatments for serious mental illnesses today are highly effective; between 70 and 90 percent of individuals have significant reduction of symptoms and improved quality of life with a combination of pharmacological and psychosocial treatments and supports.