{"id":76,"date":"2021-11-10T22:35:31","date_gmt":"2021-11-11T03:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.matt-philips.com\/?page_id=76"},"modified":"2021-12-05T00:09:21","modified_gmt":"2021-12-05T05:09:21","slug":"mental-health-matters","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.matt-philips.com\/index.php\/l-i-f-e-goals\/mental-health-matters\/","title":{"rendered":"Mental Health Matters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>According to the 2019 report from\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.samhsa.gov\/data\/sites\/default\/files\/reports\/rpt29393\/2019NSDUHFFRPDFWHTML\/2019NSDUHFFR1PDFW090120.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">SAMHSA<\/a>, around\u00a0<strong>one in every five adults<\/strong>\u00a0in the U.S. (or 51.5 million people) lives with one or more mental illnesses, such as depression, anxiety, and substance use disorders. During that year,\u00a0<strong>12 million of those adults seriously considered ending their own life<\/strong>, 3.5 million of them made a plan to do so,\u00a0<strong>1.4 million of them tried<\/strong>, and over\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/webappa.cdc.gov\/cgi-bin\/broker.exe?_service=v8prod&_server=aspv-wisq-1.cdc.gov&_port=5098&_sessionid=742.d\/y\/R52&_program=wisqars.dd_details10.sas&_service=&type=S&prtfmt=STANDARD&age1=18&age2=85&agegp=18-85&deaths=45861&_debug=0&lcdfmt=custom&ethnicty=0&ranking=10&deathtle=Death\">45,000 unfortunately succeeded<\/a><\/strong>, making suicide the\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/webappa.cdc.gov\/cgi-bin\/broker.exe?_service=v8prod&_server=aspv-wisq-1.cdc.gov&_port=5098&_sessionid=tE9441y\/R52&_program=wisqars.dd_leadcaus10.sas&log=1&rept=&State=00&year1=2019&year2=2019&Race=0&Ethnicty=0&Sex=0&ranking=10&PRTFMT=FRIENDLY&lcdfmt=custom&category=ALL&c_age1=18&c_age2=85&_debug=0\">tenth leading cause of death in adults<\/a><\/strong>. It is also the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/webappa.cdc.gov\/cgi-bin\/broker.exe?_service=v8prod&_server=aspv-wisq-1.cdc.gov&_port=5098&_sessionid=2MZtk0y\/R52&_program=wisqars.dd_leadcaus10.sas&log=1&rept=&State=00&year1=2019&year2=2019&Race=0&Ethnicty=0&Sex=0&ranking=10&PRTFMT=FRIENDLY&lcdfmt=custom&category=ALL&c_age1=10&c_age2=45&_debug=0\"><strong>second leading cause of death for people between ages 10 and 45<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"657\" src=\"https:\/\/www.matt-philips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/chart_155141-1024x657-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-78\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.matt-philips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/chart_155141-1024x657-1.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.matt-philips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/chart_155141-1024x657-1-300x192.png 300w, https:\/\/www.matt-philips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/chart_155141-1024x657-1-768x493.png 768w, https:\/\/www.matt-philips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/chart_155141-1024x657-1-780x500.png 780w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Mental health is already a major issue around the world, especially in the U.S., and its prevalence has been steadily growing for years, most significantly for the 18-25 age group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"798\" src=\"https:\/\/www.matt-philips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/thoughts-1024x798-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-77\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.matt-philips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/thoughts-1024x798-1.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.matt-philips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/thoughts-1024x798-1-300x234.png 300w, https:\/\/www.matt-philips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/thoughts-1024x798-1-768x599.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It is past time to\u00a0<strong>end the stigma<\/strong>\u00a0surrounding mental health and start having important conversations to understand how it affects people, how different people manage and overcome these things on a regular basis, and what can be done to\u00a0<strong>conquer mental illnesses for the long term<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the 2019 report from\u00a0SAMHSA, around\u00a0one in every five adults\u00a0in the U.S. (or 51.5 million people) lives with one or more mental illnesses, such as depression, anxiety, and substance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":110,"parent":25,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-fullwidth.php","meta":{"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-76","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matt-philips.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/76","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matt-philips.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matt-philips.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matt-philips.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matt-philips.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.matt-philips.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/76\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111,"href":"https:\/\/www.matt-philips.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/76\/revisions\/111"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matt-philips.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matt-philips.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matt-philips.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}