{"id":15772,"date":"2015-03-07T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-07T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mentalhe180dev.wpenginepowered.com\/news\/transform-the-way-we-think-about-mental-health\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T09:03:02","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T14:03:02","slug":"transform-the-way-we-think-about-mental-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.grafik.mentalhealthfirstaid.org\/es\/news\/transform-the-way-we-think-about-mental-health\/","title":{"rendered":"Transform the way we think about mental health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The World Health Organization identifies mental illness as the most disabling health condition in the world above cancer and heart disease.\u00a0Data reported by the National Alliance on Mental Illness indicates that one in four adults (approximately 61.5 million Americans) experiences mental illness in any given year and approximately 20 percent of youth ages 13 to 18 experience severe mental disorders in a given year.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>03\/07\/2015<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thegazette.com\/subject\/opinion\/guest-columnists\/transform-the-way-we-think-about-mental-health-20150308\" target=\"_blank\">Link to Source<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The World Health Organization identifies mental illness as the most disabling health condition in the world above cancer and heart disease.\u00a0Data reported by the National Alliance on Mental Illness indicates &#8230; <a title=\"Transform the way we think about mental health\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/dev.grafik.mentalhealthfirstaid.org\/es\/news\/transform-the-way-we-think-about-mental-health\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Transform the way we think about mental health\">Read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":15773,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"give_campaign_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"topic":[178],"news-type":[172],"class_list":["post-15772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","topic-mental-health","news-type-blog"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.0 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Transform the way we think about mental health<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_MX\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Transform the way we think about mental health\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The World Health Organization identifies mental illness as the most disabling health condition in the world above cancer and heart disease.\u00a0Data reported by the National Alliance on Mental Illness indicates ... 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