Shattered Lives

July 2003  NAMI Report Shattered Lives Seventy-one percent reported an annual income of $20,000 or less; nearly 20 percent reported less than $5,000 in annual income. Two-thirds were unemployed. More than half rely on public programs. In the last year alone, nearly half were hospitalized. Forty-percent sought emergency care last year. Forty-four percent reported being arrested or detained by police. This is the portrait of people with serious mental illnesses painted by the results of a national survey of NAMI members conducted early in 2003, which launched our broad initiative TRIAD, Treatment/Recovery Information . . .