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You Are Not Alone

  • 1 in 5 individuals will personally experience a mental illness in their lifetime.1
  • At any given time, 10.4% of Canadians have a mental illness.3
  • 8% of Canadians have experienced depression in their lifetime.3
  • 13.4% of adults over age 15 reported having serious thoughts about suicide in their lifetime2
  • 11.5% of adults reported symptoms that met criteria for having panic disorder, agoraphobia, and social anxiety disorder in their lifetime.2  
  • Check out our Depression in Canada infographic here
  • Check out our Generalized Anxiety Disorder infographic here
  • Check out our Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder infographic here
  • Check out our Panic Disorder infographic here
  • Check out our Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder infographic here
  • Check out our Social Anxiety Disorder infographic here
  • Check out our Specific Phobia infographic here
  • Check out our Bipolar Disorder infographic here
  • Check out our Anorexia Nervosa infographic here
  • Check out our Binge Eating Disorder infographic here
  • Check out our Bulimia Nervosa infographic here

1Health Canada. 2002. A report on mental illness in Canada.
2Health Canada. 2006. The human face of mental health and mental illnesss in Canada 2006. 
3Mood Disorders Society of Canada. 2009. Quick facts: Mental illness and addiction in Canada. 

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