Prevalence of Any Mental Illness (AMI)
Figure 1 shows the past year prevalence of AMI among U.S. adults.
In 2022, there were an estimated 59.3 million adults aged 18 or older in the United States with AMI. This number represented 23.1% of all U.S. adults.
The observed prevalence of AMI was higher among females (26.4%) than males (19.7%).
Young adults aged 18-25 years had the highest prevalence of AMI (36.2%) compared to adults aged 26-49 years (29.4%) and aged 50 and older (13.9%).
The prevalence of AMI was highest among the adults reporting two or more races (35.2%), followed by White adults (24.6%). The prevalence of AMI was lowest among Asian adults (16.8%).
Child abuse is endemic to most areas of the world. Not just sexual and physical abuse, but humiliations, threats, contempt, lack of love.
There are always prices the older kids and adults pay the suffering through that. It shows up in countless ways.
When society is stable a lot of these symptoms can be hidden or even ameliorated with group activities and cohesion. When things are shaken up, like when there is an Industrial Revolution and families and social bonds are strained for many, like what has been ongoing, the symptoms are more on display.
Also people are starting to pay more attention to different types of suffering, where a few generations before many compulsions and fears and sufferings were not talked about as much.
Right, plus if mental health treatment had such a huge stigma in the past (and probably still does to some extent) breaking the cycle of child abuse becomes vehemently harder.