Mental Illness Awareness Week

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Monday - Friday | 3pm-5pm COMMUNITY NEWS Mental Illness Awareness Week

October 3-9

The numbers are troubling. Each year, millions of Americans face the reality of living with a mental health condition.

One in five U.S. adults experience mental illness each year, one in 20 U.S. adults experience serious mental illness each year and one in six U.S. youth aged 6-17 experience a mental health disorder each year. Mental illness affects everyone directly or indirectly through family, friends or coworkers.

That’s why the National Alliance on Mental Illness and other organizations, during the first week in October, raise awareness of mental Illness, fight discrimination and provide support through Mental Illness Awareness Week. Resources are at nami.org

This year’s activities are centered on new awareness campaign, “Together for Mental Health,” where supporters will focus on the importance of advocating for better care for people with serious mental illness. Each day throughout the week, people who have experienced serious mental illness to talk about the need for improved crisis response and care.

Mental Illness Awareness Week, which runs Oct. 3–9, coincides with related events, including:

Tuesday Oct. 5: National Day of Prayer for Mental Illness Recovery and

Understanding

Thursday Oct. 7: National Depression

Screening Day

Saturday Oct. 9: NAMIWalks United

Day of Hope

Sunday Oct. 10: World Mental Health

Day

Mental illness affects an estimated: • 44% of Lesbian Gay Bisexual adults • 32% Mixed/Multiracial adults • 22% of White adults • 19% of American Indian or Alaska

Native • 18% of Latinx adults • 17% of Native Hawaiian or other

Pacific Islander adults • 17% of Black adults • 14% of Asian adults

Annual prevalence among U.S. adults, by condition: • Anxiety Disorders: 19% (est. 48 million people(M) • Major Depressive Episode: 8% (19 M) • Post Traumatic Stress Disorder: 4% (est. 9 M) • Bipolar Disorder: 3% (est. 7 M) • Borderline Personality Disorder: 1% (est. 3.5 M) • Obsessive Compulsive Disorder: 1% (est. 3 M) • Schizophrenia: <1% (est. 1.5 M) n •••

For more information on mental health, go to NAMI’s Mental Health by the Numbers page at https://www.nami.org/mhstats. In addition, NAMI will be featuring special blog topics at nami.org/Blogs/NAMI-Blog and personal stories at nami.org/personal-stories.

“Heart for Horses” from page 9

Our Oct. 9 fundraiser is a chance for the community to come together to bike, hike, or ride for our rescues. The event will begin at Siltanen Community Park, 127 Vine Hill Road, Scotts Valley, with options of a mountain bike route, paved route, family friendly, or horse trail! A $39 donation gets you an entry ticket, event T-shirt, and entry into a raffle for prizes. Kids under 12 are free!

We look forward to a day of the community coming together to help support our rescue horses! n •••

Buy event tickets at: www.eventbrite.com/e/ bike-walk-or-ride-for-rescues-tickets-166258793527