The latest ABS National Mental Health and Wellbeing Survey
(2008) shows that one in five people will experience a
mental illness at some point in their lives. In Australia,
the most common of disorders are anxiety (which affects 1 in
7 adults), followed by affective disorders, such as
depression (which affects 6.2%) and substance-use disorders
(5.1% of the population) (ABS, 2008).
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