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Mental Health's Importance in Today's World - A Psychologist's Perspective

Published Saturday, August 23, 2008 by bloggerblognet84084 | E-mail this post

A growing recognition of the fact that "mental health is fundamental to a persons overall health, indispensable to personal well-being and instrumental to leading a balanced and productive life" likely contributes to the fact that about 15% of our countrys population now use some form of mental health services in any given year. Nonetheless, despite effective treatments, according to Dr. Satchers 1999 Surgeon General's Mental Health report, "Nearly half of all Americans who have a severe mental illness fail to seek treatment". The fact that nearly one in five Americans are affected by a mental disorder, reinforces the understanding that "few Americans are untouched by mental illness", whether directly or indirectly.

Clinical anxiety and clinical depression are real, treatable conditions that interfere with a person's overall well-being and ability to do many of the things that they would otherwise enjoy. A suffer of clinical depression can no more "snap out of it," than a person suffering from a seizure has the will-power to stop taking a seizure.

Mental illnesses range from clinical anxiety and depression to Alzheimers disease and schizophrenia. Anxiety disorders, the most common form of mental illness, affect more than 10% of Americans yearly. Almost 25% of Americans will suffer an anxiety disorder at some point in their lives. Every May, thousands of sites throughout the country offer free, local anxiety screenings, as part of National Anxiety Disorders Screening Day. Each October, national sites off free screenings for depression, as part of National Depression Screening Day.

For more information about N.A.D.S.D., N.D.S.D., as well as a complete on-line copy of the Surgeon Generals 500 page mental health publication, visit: www.SimplifiedHealth.com/links.htm

Jerry Solfanelli

http://www.ThePsychologist.com

Simplify your overall health care, by improving your emotional health with my psychology-related links, E-books, hypnosis and other FREE self-help programs.

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