Mental Health
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Depression
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Bipolar Disorder
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Anxiety
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Insomnia
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Dementia
Brain Health Disorders at a glance…
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An estimated 40 million people in the United States experience some sort of anxiety-related disorder.
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As many as 30 million suffer from depression.
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The use of antidepressants doubled from 1995 to 2005 and they’re now the most prescribed drugs in the world.
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There’s been a twentyfold increase in attention-deficit drug consumption over the past 30 years.
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Autism and autism spectrum disorders (ASD) have sky rocketed over a short period of time. In 1970, an estimated 1 in 10,000 children were fround to be autistic. In 1995 it was 1 in 500. In 2001 it became 1 in 250. Today, 1 in 68 children are diagnosed autistic.
