- Depression affects more than 300 million people worldwide every year which is nearly the equivalent of the population of the United States.
- An additional 260 million people suffer from anxiety disorders
- More Americans suffer from depression than coronary heart disease, cancer, and HIV/AIDS.
- Close to 800 000 people die due to suicide every year and suicide is the second leading cause of death in 15-29-year-olds.
- 129 people die by suicide in the USA alone each and every day
- Ninety percent of all people who die by suicide have a diagnosable psychiatric disorder at the time of their death.
- Mental health disorders cost the global economy $1 trillion in lost productivity a year
- the total economic burden of MDD(Major Depressive Disorder) in the United States alone is now estimated to be $210.5 billion per year, representing a 21.5% increase from $173.2 billion per year in 2005.
- Diagnoses of major depression in the U.S. have risen by 33% since 2013, according to US insurer Blue Cross Blue Shield (BCBS). And this is rising even faster among millennials (up 47%) and adolescents (an increase of 47% for boys and 65% for girls).
- A 2017 study found that up to 300,000 Britons lose their jobs each year because of mental illnesses
- Each of these statistics doesn’t tell the whole story of the seriousness of mental illness because they represent people directly affected. Family members, friends, co-workers and others are indirectly impacted by these conditions so the impact on the population as a whole can be considered a multiple of these numbers