Is Everyone Mentally Ill? | Accurate Diagnosis or Overpathologizing?

This video attempts to answer the question: Is everyone mentally ill? This is an interesting question and is actually a question I received many times in many different forms. Another popular question is: How many people in the population have a mental disorder?

Research indicates that 25% people have a mental illness right at this moment, so really another way to look at that is at any given time 25% of population will qualify for a mental disorder as classified in the DSM. Other research that indicates that at some point during a person's lifetime there's a 50% chance that they will develop a mental disorder, although we have some longitudinal studies (these are studies that look at the same people over a long period of time) that show this number is closer to 85%. Even at that 85% estimate, we think this is underestimated as there are a lot of people that don't want to report mental illnesses.


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