Mental Illness Awareness Week (October 2nd to 8th) is an opportunity to learn more about serious mental illnesses such as major depression, bipolar disorder and schizophrenia.

 

Mental illnesses are medical illnesses. One in four adults experiences a mental health problem in any given year. One in 17 lives with serious, chronic illness.

 

When mental health care isn't available in a community, the results often are lost jobs and careers, broken families, more homelessness, more welfare and much more expensive costs for hospital emergency rooms, nursing homes, schools, police and even courts, jails and prisons.

 

Learn more about  mental illness support, education and advocacy at www.nami.org or www.naminh.org.