Status of mental health 2022

[Tintypographer]

SUICIDE NUMBERS CONTINUE TO INCREASE AND THE CAUSE IS FAR TOO COMPLEX TO BE ATTRIBUTED TO AN INTERNET FORUM:

The State of Mental Health in America | Mental Health America

www.mhanational.org

Mental health status update for 2022:

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2022 Key Findings

• In 2019, just prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, 19.86% of adults experienced a mental illness, equivalent to nearly 50 million Americans.
• Suicidal ideation continues to increase among adults in the U.S. 4.58% of adults report having serious thoughts of suicide, an increase of 664,000 people from last year's dataset. The national rate of suicidal ideation among adults has increased every year since 2011-2012. This was a larger increase than seen in last year's report and is a concerning trend to see going into the COVID-19 pandemic.
• A growing percentage of youth in the U.S. live with major depression. 15.08% of youth experienced a major depressive episode in the past year, a 1.24% increase from last year's dataset. In the bottom-ranked states, up to 19% of youth ages 12-17 experienced major depression.
• Over 2.5 million youth in the U.S. have severe depression, and multiracial youth are at greatest risk. 10.6% of youth in the U.S. have severe major depression (depression that severely affects functioning). The rate of severe depression was highest among youth who identified as more than one race, at 14.5% (more than one in every seven multiracial youth).
• Over half of adults with a mental illness do not receive treatment, totaling over 27 million adults in the U.S. who are going untreated. In Hawaii, the bottom-ranked state, 67% of adults with a mental illness did not receive treatment. Even in Vermont, the top-ranked state in the U.S., 43% of adults experiencing a mental illness were not receiving treatment.
• The percentage of adults with a mental illness who report unmet need for treatment has increased every year since 2011. In 2019, 24.7% of adults with a mental illness report an unmet need for treatment.
• Over 60% of youth with major depression do not receive any mental health treatment. Even in states with the greatest access, nearly one in three are going without treatment. In Texas, (WHERE FIXTHE26 IS INCORPORATED AND BASED AS AN ORGANIZATION) the bottom-ranked state for this indicator, nearly three-quarters of youth with depression did not receive mental health treatment.
• Nationally, fewer than 1 in 3 youth with severe depression receive consistent mental health care. Even among youth with severe depression who receive some treatment, only 27% received consistent care. In Tennessee, the bottom-ranked state, that rate is as low as 12%. 65.6% of youth in Maine (ranked 1st) received consistent treatment, which is 16% higher than Vermont (49.7%) which is ranked 2nd.
• Both adults and youth in the U.S. continue to lack adequate insurance coverage. 11.1% of Americans with a mental illness are uninsured. There was a 0.3% increase from last year's dataset, the second year in a row that this indicator increased since the passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). 8.1% of children had private insurance that did not cover mental health services, totaling 950,000 youth.
• Rates of substance use are increasing for youth and adults, even prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. 7.74% of U.S. adults and 4.08% of youth had a substance use disorder in the past year. Substance use increased 0.07% for adults and 0.25% for youth over last year's report.

 

[Crazy4u]

Over half of adults with a mental illness do not receive treatment, totaling over 27 million adults in the U.S. who are going untreated.

Question: how do they know? if someone has a mental illness and doesn't seek treatment, how would they know about them?

 

[Tintypographer]

Adult Data 2022

www.mhanational.org

This page gives the statistical methods that were used in the surveys and publicly available data for each state. For the question related to percent of adults with depression who did not seek treatment, there were questions related to whether or not cognitive or emotional impairment prevented individuals from working that had follow-up related to whether or not those individuals sought treatment and further whether or not the lack of seeking treatment was due to financial constraints.

This came from employment data that was then extrapolated to the larger population in an estimate with a margin of error.

 

[Feeding Pigeons]

Over half of adults with a mental illness do not receive treatment, totaling over 27 million adults in the U.S. who are going untreated.

Question: how do they know? if someone has a mental illness and doesn't seek treatment, how would they know about them?

Hahahaha, someone who asked the correct question. Whenever someone posts statistics or poll/survey results on another forum I frequent, I always ask if anyone was asked about that poll or survey, never get a response.

All of these studies are major asspulls.

 

[9BBN]

I would like to see scientists guess the effects of the pandemic on mental health before the findings come in next year. Just so we can clearly see what kind of science was affecting public policy. Although I believe most experts are well-intentioned, I think the mental health crisis of the pandemic was seriously underestimated. But I'm aware that everything is lose-lose in a pandemic.

 

[Tintypographer]

I trust the increasing suicide numbers to not be over represented. Statistics are very hard to justify in the face of normal curves and confidence intervals and media as well as populations want exact round numbers. With things in populations we unfortunately have to use statistics which are projections with a margin of error to arrive at conclusions. But we can say that numbers are increasing as a trend and people continue to come to this site.

I merely try to correlate some of the details regarding the data of mental health to suicide and the economics of treatment. I hope that it shows that this site is not based on a "death cult" or recruiting victims.

 

[SuicidallyCurious]

It's a U.S. study. The US over promises and under-delivers, it's at the core of what we do.

It's called advertising.

You're in it from day one if your house has a TV and nowadays the busy parents put kids infront of that or even worse the phone