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There are now about 800,000 such patients in this nation's institutionsâ600,000 for mental illness and over 200,000 for mental retardation. Every year nearly 1,500,000 people receive treatment in institutions for the mentally ill and mentally retarded.
An estimated 26.2 percent of Americans ages 18 and older-about one in four adults-suffer from a diagnosable mental illness in any given year. Not only are these adults affected by one mental illness; 45% of these adults meet criteria for two or more disorders. http://www.techtimes ...