According to the National Alliance on Mental Health, 43.8 million) Americans experience mental illness in a given year and up to 42 million) American adults live with anxiety disorders. It is still quite striking to me that depression is the leading cause of disability) worldwide, and is a major contributor to the global burden of disease.
Specifically in millennials, there has been a 47% increase in major-depression diagnoses since 2013, according to a Blue Cross Blue Shield report).
Though we are clearly in the midst of a crisis, I am hopeful in reading the Business Insider’s statement claiming that “they're [millennials] more likely to go to therapy than previous generations, destigmatizing the concept in the process.”
