According to a new government report, more than 13% of American adults were treated for mental illness in 2010. People aged 18 to 25 were more than twice as likely to experience problems or undergo treatment than those aged 50 and older.
Women were also more likely to have undergone treatment than men.
According to the Huffington Post:
“Researchers gained some insight into suicide and thoughts of suicide through the report. They found that about 8.7 million Americans contemplated suicide in the last year, while 2.5 million people actually made plans to commit suicide and 1.1 million people attempted suicide. In addition, 8 percent of teens between ages 12 and 17 reported that they had had a major depressive episode over the last year, according to the report.”