The Silent Crisis: Global Mental Health Burden Surpasses Chronic Physical Disease
A comprehensive systematic analysis from the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) Study 2023, published in The Lancet, reveals that mental disorders have officially surpassed cardiovascular disease and cancer as the leading cause of global disability. As of 2023, nearly 1.2 billion people worldwide—approximately one in seven individuals—are living with a clinically diagnosed mental health condition,…