Mental Illness
www.nimh.nih.gov
An overview of statistics for mental illnesses. Mental illnesses are common in the United States. One in six U.S. adults lives with a mental illness (43.4 million in 2015). Mental illnesses include many different conditions that vary in degree of severity, ranging from mild to moderate to severe.

Prevalence of Any Mental Illness (AMI)

Figure 1 shows the past year prevalence of AMI among U.S. adults.
    In 2022, there were an estimated 59.3 million adults aged 18 or older in the United States with AMI. This number represented 23.1% of all U.S. adults.
    The observed prevalence of AMI was higher among females (26.4%) than males (19.7%).
    Young adults aged 18-25 years had the highest prevalence of AMI (36.2%) compared to adults aged 26-49 years (29.4%) and aged 50 and older (13.9%).
    The prevalence of AMI was highest among the adults reporting two or more races (35.2%), followed by White adults (24.6%). The prevalence of AMI was lowest among Asian adults (16.8%).
  • duhlieluh@lemmy.zip
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    6 hours ago

    i agree, the worst being shorts/tiktoks/reels. it absolutely kills your attention span and leads you to crave instant hits of dopamine. i see people watching reels etc. while the tv is playing a show that they are “watching” it drives me insane.

    most social media is also meant to make you more lonely and depressed because you are more likely to use them when you are.

    people compare themselves to the idealistic characters they see on social media and see that it is something they will never live up to, not realising that they arent supposed to.

    there are obviously many complicated reasons and theories like inequality, idealism, manipulation, and the advancements that we have made in mental health that contribute to the issue. ive attempted to condense the topics into a word or sentence but as most of us know they are much deeper and more ambiguous than that.