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Mental Health Screenings
Mental Health Disorders | Mental Health Literature
Whether for heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, or depression - health screenings provide a quick and easy way to spot the first signs of serious illness and can reach people who might not otherwise seek professional medical advice. Clinical depression is a common medical illness affecting more than 19 million American Adults each year. Like screenings for other illnesses, depression screenings should be a routine part of healthcare.
Why Screen for Mental Health Disorders?
- Clinical depression is a serious medical illness.
- Clinical depression or Bipolar Disorder can lead to suicide.
- Sometimes people with depression mistakenly believe that the symptoms of depression are a "normal part of life."
- Clinical depression affects men and women of all ages, races and socioeconomic groups.
- One in four women and one in ten men will experience depression at some point during their lifetime.
- Two thirds of those suffering from the illness do not seek the necessary treatment.
- Depression can co-occur and complicate other medical conditions.
- More than 80% of all cases of clinical depression can be effectively treated with medication, psychotherapy or a combination of both.
- Screenings are often the first step in getting help.
Free, totally confidential, screening for depression, anxiety, alcohol abuse and bipolar disorder are available at the websites below.
Screen for depression at www.depression-screening.org,
Anxiety at www.adaa.org/gettinghelp/selfhelptests.asp
Alcohol abuse at www.AlcoholScreening.org
Bipolar disorder at http://www.dbsalliance.org/site/PageServer?pagename=about_screening_screeningcenter
Eating disorder at http://psychcentral.com/eatingquiz.htm
Click here to schedule a screening event for your business or organization.