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Inpatient Mental Health in Different Eras + Number of people in state and county mental hospitals in 1955: 560,000 + Number of people in state and county mental hospitals in 1994: 71,519 + Jail and prison inmates with mental disorders in 1983: 6.4 percent + Jail and prison inmates with mental disorders in the mid-2000s: 16 percent + Proportion of the mentally ill who had been in jail or prison prior to 2010: 40 percent Pharmacotherapy Through the Years + 1949: Australian psychiatrist J.F.J. Cade uses lithium to treat patients with psychosis. + 1952–1975: Fifteen antipsychotic drugs are introduced in the United States. + 1990: Clozapine is introduced in America, signaling the arrival of "atypical" antipsychotic drugs. + 2011: One in fi ve American adults takes medication for a psychological disorder. + 2013: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approves 62 medications for the treatment of psychiatric disorders. THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH ESTIMATES 57.7 MILLION PEOPLE IN THE UNITED STATES SUFFER FROM A DIAGNOSABLE MENTAL ILLNESS. HERE IS A LOOK AT HOW MENTAL HEALTH HAS CHANGED OVER THE YEARS. By Melissa Moore At a Glance: The History of Mental Health The Five Most Common Diagnoses: 1844 T h e 1 8 4 4 R e p o r t o f t h e Metropolitan Commissioners in Lunac y outlined f ive principa l categories of mental illness: 1. Mania — disordered and irrational thinking, conduct and behavior 2. Melancholia — depression-like symptoms 3. Monomania — a form of mania in regard only to a particular topic 4. Dementia — the loss of intellectual power due to grief, extreme poverty, destitution or old age 5. Moral insanity — characterized by a lack of self-control and moral fi ber Social phobia Major depressive disorder Attention defi cit/ hyperactivity disorder Post-traumatic stress disorder Generalized anxiety disorder THE FIVE MOST COMMON DIAGNOSES: 2010 6.8% 6.7% 4.1% 3.5% 3.1% CORE ++++++++++++++++++ +++ + +++ + ++++++++++++++++++ DATA VAULT