{"id":584,"date":"2009-05-20T12:00:44","date_gmt":"2009-05-20T16:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchspressroom.wordpress.com\/?p=584"},"modified":"2009-05-20T12:00:44","modified_gmt":"2009-05-20T16:00:44","slug":"may-is-mental-health-awareness-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2009\/05\/20\/584\/","title":{"rendered":"May is Mental Health Awareness Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span style=\"font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana\">May has been designated Mental Health Awareness Month.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana\">Some mental health facts you may not know:<\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana\"><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>More than 1 in 20<\/strong> Americans aged 12 and over currently have depression (National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2005-2006).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Over 33,000 suicides<\/strong> occurred in 2006; that\u2019s about 11 deaths per 100,000 population (National Vital Statistics System, 2006).<\/li>\n<li>Of visits to physician offices for chronic conditions, <strong>9.5% were for depression<\/strong> in 2006, up from 7.5% in 1996 (National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey, 2006).<\/li>\n<li>Over the past month, <strong>nearly 10% of adults felt sad<\/strong> at least some of the time, and another 5% felt hopeless or worthless (National Health Interview Survey, 2007).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0For more information visit <em><a title=\"Link to Monitoring the Nation's Health Care Spring 2009\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/pressroom\/data\/Spring09MNHC.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Monitoring the Nation&#8217;s Health Care<\/a><\/em>, Spring 2009.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May has been designated Mental Health Awareness Month. Some mental health facts you may not know: More than 1 in 20 Americans aged 12 and over currently have depression (National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2005-2006). Over 33,000 suicides occurred in 2006; that\u2019s about 11 deaths per 100,000 population (National Vital Statistics System, 2006). Of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53763],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}