Our behavioral health providers, as part of your primary care team, work with your primary care provider to evaluate barriers to your total health and provide brief, solution-focused interventions.
If you believe you may be experiencing symptoms affecting your mental health, schedule an appointment with OLE Health today, our staff of experienced behavioral health professionals are here to help.
Below are a list of mental health facts and statistics to help inform you and your family of about the importance of understanding the depth of this critical issue:
- Depression is the leading cause of disability worldwide
- Suicide is the 10th leading cause of death in the U.S.
- Only 44% of adults, and less than 20% of children and adolescents, with diagnosable mental health problems receive needed treatment.
- With support and treatment, between 70 and 90 percent of individuals have a significant reduction of symptoms, an improved quality of life, and find a satisfying measure of achievement and independence.
- Just over half (50.6%) of children aged 8-15 received mental health services in the previous year.
- African Americans and Hispanic Americans used mental health services at about one-half the rate of Caucasian Americans in the past year and Asian Americans at about one-third the rate.
- Half of all chronic mental illness begins by age 14; three-quarters by age 24. Despite effective treatment, there are long delays- sometimes decades- between the first appearance of symptoms and when people get help.
- Over one-third (37%) of students with a mental health condition age 14-21 and older who are served by special education drop out – the highest dropout rate of any disability group.
- 90 percent of clients in public behavioral health care settings have experienced trauma. If trauma goes unaddressed, people with mental illnesses and addictions will have poor physical health outcomes; ignoring trauma can hinder medical and mental health recovery.
- Mood disorders, including major depression, persistent depressive disorder (dysthymic disorder) and bipolar disorder, are the third most common causes of hospitalization in the U.S. for both youth and adults aged 18–44.
- Individuals living with serious mental illness face an increased risk of having chronic medical conditions.
- Adults in the U.S. living with serious mental illness die on average 25 years earlier than others, largely due to treatable medical conditions.
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