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Half Of Australians Suffer From Mental Disorders At Some Point
The latest national snapshot from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) also found that about one in five Aussies has a mental condition in any given year.
The figures also suggested that non-psychotic psychiatric problems, such as mood and anxiety disorders, are even more common.
"Until this year, we always used to say one in five Australians would experience a mental health disorder in their lifetime," News.com.au quoted Barbara Hocking, executive director of the mental health charity SANE Australia, as telling The Australian.
She added: "With these recent findings, we say it's one in five in a 12-month period."
The ABS figures have been drawn on statistics originally published late last year or earlier.
It takes into account substance abuse or dependency, including with alcohol, among the mental disorders on which the finding is based.he figures show that in 2007, 45 per cent of Australians aged 16 to 85 equivalent to 7.3 million people had experienced anxiety, mood or substance-use disorders at some point in their lives.
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