The raw facts: More than 450 million across the globe suffer from mental illness and schizophrenia, depression, epilepsy, dementia, alcohol dependence and other mental, neurological and substance-use disorders make up 13% of the global disease burden, which surpasses both cardiovascular disease and cancer.
Torgovnick , Kate. "TED Blog." TED Blog Some stats on the devastating impact of mental illness worldwide followed by some reasons forhope Comments. TED Conferences LLC, 11 Sept. 2012. Web. 25 Oct. 2013. <http://blog.ted.com/2012/09/11/some-stats-on-the-devastating-impact-of-mental-illness-worldwide-followed-by-some-reasons-for-hope/>.
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