Coronavirus Has Exposed the Burden of Mental Illness

"The reality of mental illness is that disasters and crisis seem to increase its severity, because much of what bubbles to the surface is underreported and untreated mental illness. We live in a country where one in five adults experience mental illness and one in 25 experience serious mental illness; however, the average delay between symptom onset and treatment initiation is 11 years. Those statistics do not begin to summarize the true extent of suffering that these individuals endure, but they do mean you most likely know someone who is struggling with mental illness. However, in 2018, only 40 percent of adults who experienced mental illness received treatment."