Statistics and Facts About Anxiety Disorder
September 2, 2010

Different anxiety disorder types include generalized social anxiety disorder, and panic disorder.

Anxiety disorder is the most common mental illness. Alone in United States, about 20 million population, aged 18 to 54 is affected with this disease.
According to a report published in Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, anxiety disorders cost US more than $42 billion a year which is about one - third of the US total mental health bill.
People suffering with anxiety disorders are 3 to 5 times more like to go to doctors and 6 times more likely to get hospitalized for psychiatric disorders than non - sufferers.

Anxiety Disorders Affected US Population (Nos. And Percentages)

About 5.2 million American are affected with this disorder. Women are more likely to be affected than men.
Rape is the most likely problem of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), 65% of men and 46% of women who has been raped earlier has developed PTSD.
The children who have been raped in their early childhood are more prone to PTSD in their teens or adulthood.

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