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Study: One in Five U.S. Adults Suffer From Mental Illness

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) has issued the results of a national survey that found more than 45 million Americans, or 20 percent of U.S. adults, had some form of mental illness in 2009. Of those, 11 million had a serious mental illness.


The study found the highest rate of mental illness among young adults aged 18 to 25 at 30 percent. An increase in the numbers are believed to reflect a rise in depression among the unemployed.

Notably, the survey shows that 6.1 million adults last year had a mental health illness that was not being treated.

Source: CNBC

30 thoughts on “Study: One in Five U.S. Adults Suffer From Mental Illness”

  1. Yes, in federal courts they ignored the rules of evidence and tried to get me to agree to discuss my personality and character and to defend against charges that I was “obsessed”. A federal P.D. who I never met wanted to plead me guilty of being a vexatious litigant because I was “obsessed”. All that I wanted was my rights listed in statutes. But if you don’t roll over to take in in the ____ then the perps say you are mentally ill.

  5. Hey “Ute”,

    Are you sayin’ you are young a la Cousin Vinny? I am a yoot too once upon a time or two.
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    Mister DNA,

    yep yep yep yep yep nope nope nope nope nope nope nope yope yope yo yo ma.

    We all do don’t luv ya meeessssttttteeeeerrrrrr.
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    Furthermore,

    A world that is destroying itself or a nation that is destroying itself can only do so through experts thoroughly trained in the art, nay science, of ignorance.

    just sayin’
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    http://blogdredd.blogspot.com/2010/11/peak-of-sanity.html

  6. What the report doesn’t mention is that 12 out of every 5 people have Multiple Personality Disorder.

  7. I wondered who the 20% of Americans were that approved of Congress, this really does explain a lot.

  9. And Russell Tice is mentally ill, according to some. Ever hear of “political psychiatry?” It’s alive and thriving in the good, ol’ USA.

    Martha Mitchell was dubbed “delusional” when she spoke up about widespread corruption in the Nixon White House… We know how that turned out… Aluminum foil for her, too?

    I’m not disputing the fact that there are people with mental illnesses (sociopathy and narcissism aside), but it’s all too easy to discredit and defame by labeling someone “mentally ill.”

    It’s happening more than most realize.

  10. Ute,
    you need additional evidence to say congress is full of sociopaths?

    I suggest you wear aluminum foil, as should the other mentally ill, so we know who you are. Something tells me this crazy bunch should be close to Fox News’s demographic.

  13. Ute,

    Do you have a sense of humor or did it leave when the rest of your senses abandoned ship?

    That is, of course, a rhetorical question.

  14. One way to reduce unemployment is for the USMS to arrest and kill all citizens with mental illness. They could do that with a judge’s order like the Nazis did by calling it 5005 civil contempt. The CDC has already ruled that that is OK because a judicial order is an authorized law enforcement function so there is legal precedent and I am not planning to appeal it to the S.C. because the S.C. doesn’t read PRO SE briefs so it is a waste of time and money. So there is no case law barrier to detention and extermination of the mentally ill. That will improve the economy by reducing unemployment.

  15. “Of that twenty percent, ninety percent managed to land employment in Congress despite their sociopathic and narcissistic disorders.”

    how would you know that? are you a psychiatrist who has spoken to one and all and clinically evaluated each?

    Or are you just making it up as you go along?

  18. Buddah Those in Congress have the best health care available to treat their disorders if they wish too. Others are not so fortunate.

  19. Of that twenty percent, ninety percent managed to land employment in Congress despite their sociopathic and narcissistic disorders.

  20. Heres a case for you:

    N.J. woman accuses 2 police officers of forcible arrest during safety check
    Published: Thursday, November 18, 2010, 6:10 PM Updated: Thursday, November 18, 2010, 6:14 PM
    Joe Moszczynski/The Star-Ledger

    ANDOVER TOWNSHIP — A Sussex County woman has filed a lawsuit against two Andover Township police officers, claiming they forcibly subdued and arrested her while they were checking to see if she was safe.

    The arrest of Linda Leenstra, 49, came after the officers already knew she was safe at home with her husband and preparing for bed, according to the 15-page lawsuit filed this week in U.S. District Court in Newark.

    http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2010/11/sussex_county_woman_accuses_2.html

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