Mental health is important to our overall health.
Mental health matters! Mental Health includes our emotional, psychological and social well-being. It affects how we think, feel, act, manage stress, interact with others, and make choices. Mental health is just as important as physical health throughout our lives.
Mental health issues are common: more than one in five American adults live with a mental illness.1 Mental health issues are treatable and often preventable, but not everyone has access to the resources they need. People from certain racial and ethnic minority groups face more difficulty than others in obtaining mental health care.
