FMSC 383 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Major Depressive Disorder, Mood Disorder, Anxiety Disorder
27 Mar 2018
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Ch. 8 mental health: 1 in 5 adults experience mental illness, 1 in 25 adults live with serious mental illness, one half or all chronic mental illness begins by age of 14. By age of 34: almost of the population will be diagnosed. Mental illness is a condition that affects a person"s thinking, mood, and behavior: even if people have the same diagnosis, each person"s experience is different. Severely mental illness: prevents normal functioning, maintaining employment, and maintaining normal functions with family. Health disparity: preventable difference in the burden of disease that are experience by socially disadvantage populations, critical issues faced by communities***** Jails and prisons: 16% of prison population in the us have severe mental illness, 1 in 5 youth in juvenile system have severe mental illness.
