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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.
According to the Surgeon General's Report on Mental Illness, it is estimated that in an average one-year period, 22 to 23 percent of the U.S. adult populationâor 44 million peopleâhave diagnosable mental disorders.ental health care providers report that our capacity for emergency psychiatric care is regressing to a time 40 years ago when providers had to accompany patients to the emergency room and wait with them for care. Criminal justice professionals report that 60-75% of those in some of our jails have a mental illness.