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A review that pooled surveys of mood disorders in different countries up to 2000 found 12-month prevalence rates of 4.1% for major depressive disorder (MDD), 2% for dysthymic disorder and 0.72% for bipolar 1 disorder. The average lifetime prevalence found was 6.7% for MDD (with a relatively low lifetime prevalence rate in higher-quality studies ...
In Europe, Africa, and Asia, lifetime rates of anxiety disorders are between 9 and 16%, and yearly rates are between 4 and 7%. [102] In the United States, the lifetime prevalence of anxiety disorders is about 29%, [103] and between 11 and 18% of adults have the condition in a given year. [102]
Psychological trauma in older adults can present differently depending on the type of traumatic experience and when it took place. [8] If the traumatic experiences of an older adult were recurrent in childhood (see childhood trauma or complex trauma) or in adulthood, the experiences can have varying but lasting detrimental effects on an older adult's psychological well-being, [6] [8] health ...
The lifetime prevalence of at least one mental disorder: 57.4% [5] 12 month prevalence of at least one mental disorder: 32.4%; Comorbidity: Of the people who had experienced a mental illness in their lifetime (48% of the population), 27% had experienced more than one. The resulting average is 2.1 mental disorders per disordered person.
Journal of Anxiety Disorders is a bimonthly peer-reviewed interdisciplinary academic journal publishing research on all aspects of anxiety disorders across the lifespan (child, adolescent, adult, and geriatric populations).
Gay men in those states showed a 37 percent increase in mood disorders, a 42 percent increase in alcoholism and a 248 percent increase in generalized anxiety disorder. The most chilling thing about those numbers is that the legal rights of gay people living in those states didn’t materially change.
The disease has many complications, including anxiety, dementia, and depression. [29] Parkinson's disease typically occurs in people over the age of 60, of whom about one percent are affected. [30] [31] The prevalence of Parkinson's disease dementia also increases with age, and to a lesser degree, duration of the disease. [32]
Anxiety disorders are the most common mental illness in the U.S., affecting 40 million adults in the United States age 18 and older, or 18.1% of the population every year. According to the Anxiety and Depression Association of America, anxiety disorders are highly treatable but only 36.9% of people receive treatment. [ 6 ]