May is Mental Health Awareness Month – Mental Health Post a Day in May – May 6th

Consequences For the Lack of Treatment for Mental Illness:

• Serious mental illness costs America $193.2 billion in lost earnings per year.
• Mental illness including major depression, dysthymic disorder and bipolar disorder, are the third most common cause of hospitalization in the U.S. for both youth and adults  aged 18–44.
• Individuals living with serious mental illness face an increased risk of having chronic medical conditions.
• Adults in the U.S. living with serious mental illness die on average 25 years earlier than others, largely due to treatable medical conditions.
• Over one-third (37%) of students with a mental illness age 14­–21 and older who are served by special education drop out—the highest dropout rate of any disability group.

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I will be posting something important about mental illness every day throughout the month of May on my blog in honor of Mental Health Awareness Month.

Please keep visiting my blog My Loud Bipolar Whispers and look for statistics or other beneficial information related to mental illness to increase awareness, educate, reduce mental illness stigma and reduce suicides.

It is crucial and imperative for all of us to get involved and save lives.

So, please visit my blog every day, but especially every day throughout the month of May.

Thank you. Hugs and blessings to all of you always and forever.

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(~ Information from NAMI – National Alliance of Mental Illness)

 

 

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