Analysis by Dr. Joseph MercolaFact Checked April 21, 2022
STORY AT-A-GLANCE
- The United States is facing a mental health crisis, experts say, noting we’re in dire need of more mental health professionals
- Nearly 1 in 3 — 27.3% — of American adults now struggle with depression and/or anxiety
- This is the price society is paying for ill-conceived, irrational pandemic measures and nonstop fearmongering
- To treat everyone, each of the 33,000 practicing psychiatrists in the U.S. would have to see approximately 3,000 patients a year — a patient load that simply isn’t feasible
- Those of us who have not succumbed to irrational fear (or worked our way out of it) can act as a lifeline to others by sharing information that empowers rather than enforces fear, and by being role models in the way we live our lives
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