Mental illness is more common than people think:
[This is the first part of a series that explores the relationship between mental illnesses and substance abuse a means of self-medicating the illness.} As a means of raising public awareness of mental illness in the United States, several research organizations have assembled statistics, including the National Institute of Mental Health (NIH). According to NIH, more than one in five U.S. adults were estimated to live with a mental illness in 2021. In 2021, there were an estimated 57.8 million adults aged 18 or older in the United States with any mental illness (AMI). This number ...