This document discusses facts and statistics about anxiety disorders and depression. It states that anxiety disorders are the most common psychiatric illnesses affecting both children and adults, with nearly 40 million Americans suffering from anxiety and/or depression. However, only about 1/3 of those suffering receive treatment. Both anxiety disorders and depression are treatable medical conditions that can be helped by a professional, but are often underreported and undertreated. The risks factors for anxiety disorders are complex and can include genetics, brain chemistry, personality and life events.

1. Anxiety and Depression

2. Facts and Statistics
Common Does Not Mean Easy Or
Simple

3. Understanding
The Facts Of
Anxiety
Disorders And
Depression Is
The First Step

4. It's a normal part
of life to
experience
occasional
anxiety

5. When you
experience
anxiety that is
persistent
overwhelming
overpowering
it could be serious enough to
seek medical attention

6. When you have
trouble dealing
with daily
activities, you
could have an
anxiety disorder

7. The term "anxiety disorder"
includes
Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
Panic Disorder and Panic Attacks
Agoraphobia
Social Anxiety Disorder
Selective Mutism
Separation Anxiety
Specific Phobias

8. Depression can include
Obsessive-compulsive Disorder (OCD)
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Both are closely related
to anxiety disorders

9. Depression is a condition which is
described as feelings of
discouragement
sadness
hopelessness
lack of motivation
disinterest in life
That lasts more than two
weeks

10. Depression should
be treated by a
medical
professional if
there is a
prolonged
interference with
daily living

11. Major depression
affects the way a
person thinks,
feels, behaves and
functions, but it is
treatable

12. There are around 3 to 5 percent of
people suffering with major
depression at any given time.

13. The average person
has a 17 percent
chance of developing
depression or anxiety

14. Out of all the psychiatric illnesses
affecting children and adults,
anxiety disorders are the most
common

15. Nearly 40 million
American adults
suffer from anxiety
disorders and/or
depression

16. Even though
treatment is
available only
around 1/3 of the
people suffering
from depression
and/or anxiety get
treatment

17. It is believed
that anxiety
disorders are
hereditary and
have a biological
basis the same
way allergies or
diabetes do

18. The risk factors for anxiety disorders
are complex but could include
genetics, brain chemistry, personality
and life events

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