Study Estimates Number Of ‘Seriously Mentally Ill’

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There are two million adults in the United States who are seriously mentally ill and an estimated 70,000 children with a serious mental illness or primary autism, according to a recent report, ‘Care of the Seriously Mentally Ill: A Rating 0f State Program’ by E. Fuller Torrey, M.D., Sidney M. Wolfe, M.D., and Laurie M. Flynn. The majority of the seriously mentally ill suffer either from schizophrenia or manic depressive illness (bipolar disorder.) The study also . . .