Mental disorders impact over 450 million people worldwide and account for a significant portion of global disease burden, yet they receive a small percentage of healthcare funding. One in four people will experience a mental illness in their lifetime, with signs often emerging during teenage years. Left untreated, mental illness can have serious consequences like high suicide rates, overcrowded prisons housing the untreated mentally ill, and huge economic costs projected to reach $6 trillion annually by 2030.
Mental disorders impact over 450 million people worldwide and account for a significant portion of global disease burden, yet they receive a small percentage of healthcare funding. One in four people will experience a mental illness in their lifetime, with signs often emerging during teenage years. Left untreated, mental illness can have serious consequences like high suicide rates, overcrowded prisons housing the untreated mentally ill, and huge economic costs projected to reach $6 trillion annually by 2030.
Mental disorders impact over 450 million people worldwide and account for a significant portion of global disease burden, yet they receive a small percentage of healthcare funding. One in four people will experience a mental illness in their lifetime, with signs often emerging during teenage years. Left untreated, mental illness can have serious consequences like high suicide rates, overcrowded prisons housing the untreated mentally ill, and huge economic costs projected to reach $6 trillion annually by 2030.
Suffer from mental disorders – more than cancer, diabetes or heart disease = Young People at Risk Impact 50% of those who will ever be diagnosed 450 million people worldwide suffer with a mental disorder show signs of the from mental disorders disease by age 14 – 75% by age 25
= 1 suicide every 90 = Crowded Prisons
seconds Hundreds of thousands of people living Every day, nearly 2,200 people in the world – with mental illness are in prison and not receiving the treatment they need some 800,000 each year – commit suicide = Inadequate Care Mental illness accounts for 20% of the = Global Economic Impact global burden of disease, but only 3% of $2.7 trillion/year today… $6 trillion by 2030 the world’s healthcare budgets 26% of all time lost to disability – more than any other kind of disease