WE REFER TO OUR BROKEN BRAINS by many names–depression, anxiety, memory loss, brain fog, ADHD, Autism to name a few.
Obesity is obvious. You can't hide it. But mental illness and memory loss is suffered silently, hidden from view. Yet it touches nearly every one either directly or indirectly; personally or through family members and friends.
- Psychiatric disorders affect 26 percent of our adult population
- Forty percent or 12 million children have some type of psychiatric disorder
- Forty million people have anxiety
- Twenty million people have depression.
- One in ten Americans takes an anti-depressant
- One in ten children or (8 million) take stimulant medications like Ritalin
- Autism rates have increase to 1 in 166 children
- Over one billion people worldwide,
- One in six children,
- One in two elderly,
- And will cripple one in four people during his or her lifetime.
