Inside Digital Health June 17, 2019
The toll that depression, anxiety, psychosis and related disorders have taken on society is immeasurable. One can, of course, quote the statistics: About 46 million U.S. adults experience a mental disorder in any given year; 18% of adults experience an anxiety disorder; and 7% have had at least one major depressive episode in the past year.
While these figures are disturbing, the full impact of mental disease really strikes an emotional chord when you know friends, family or business associates who battle these problems. These disorders wreck lives by destroying promising careers, ending marriages, threatening domestic abuse and much more. Unfortunately, with so many individuals suffering from psychiatric problems, it is virtually impossible for every affected patient to receive the...