- Life expectancy reduction due to mental illness: 10 years.
- Psychological illness contributes to 14% of deaths every year
- % Americans affected by mood disorders: 21% (1/5)
- Effect of mental illness on number of years spent living healthy (worldwide):
- 184 Million Disability Adjusted Life Years (DALY)
- 8.5 Million Years of Life Lost (YLL)
- 176 Million Years Lived with Disability (YLD)
- Note: “The disability-adjusted life year (DALY) is a measure of overall disease burden, expressed as the number of years lost due to ill-health, disability or early death.” (Source: Wikipedia)
- DALY = YLL + YLD
- For a nice infographic of this, see here:
- Number of Americans affected by depression: 16 Million