One out of three people – would you call that common or rare?

A 72-year Harvard Medical School study on mental health found that “by age 50, almost a third of the men had at one time or another met [the researcher's] criteria for mental illness.”

Almost a third. That’s about one person in even the smallest family.

In a classroom of twenty, it’s about six students.

In an office workgroup of ten people, two or three will probably have experienced mental illness by the time they are 50 years old.

We need to  re-examine our assumptions aobut mental health and stop treating mental illness like a bizarre aberration.  It’s way, way, WAY more common than we’ve been led to believe.