Editorial: Enduring Mental Health: The High Lifetime Prevalence of Psychiatric Disorder and Emerging Science of Persistent Mental Wellness

Just how common are common mental health problems? For much of the 20th century, psychiatric research and the US healthcare system seemed to proceed under the assumption that the answer is “not very”. It was not until the early 1990s that the United States conducted its first large-scale survey of mental health problems, the National Comorbidity Survey, which revealed that about half of all adult participants had experienced at least one diagnosable psychiatric disorder in their l ifetimes and close to one-in-three had met criteria for a psychiatric diagnosis in the past 12 months.
Source: Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry - Category: Psychiatry Authors: Tags: Editorial Source Type: research