2nd International Conference on Psychiatry and Psychiatric Disorders

Chicago, October 7, 2015 (Newswire.com) - psychiatry is a branch of medicine that is concerned with the diagnosis and treatment of emotional, mental and behavioural disorders. With recent life style most of us are suffering from psychological issues one or other. Every year, nearly 42.5 million American adults suffer from some psychiatric issues. One in four adults that is approximately 61.5 million citizens experiences mental illness in a given year; around 13.6 million live with a serious mental illness such as chronic depression, bipolar disorder and Schizophrenia; about 20% of youth of age 13 to 18 experience severe mental disorders and for ages 8 to 15 the estimate is around 13%. Despite effective treatment, there are long delays sometimes decades between the first appearance of symptoms and when people get help. American spends nearly $193.2 billion for serious mental illness per year. Psychiatric disorder such as depression can be listed in top 3 causes of hospitalization in the U.S. for both young and adults between ages 18 to 44. Suicide is the tenth leading cause of death in the U.S.A; more than 90% of those who die by suicide had one or more mental disorders. ​​