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Article: ADAC: Canadians Struggle to Get Adequate Treatment for Anxiety Disorders
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- CCNMatthews Newswire
- Article date:
- December 6, 2006
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MONTREAL, QUEBEC--(CCNMatthews - Dec. 6, 2006) - The Statistics
Canada Community Health Survey of Mental Health and Wellbeing has
revealed that anxiety disorders are the most common mental health
problems in Canada. This recent survey estimates that 1,040,000
Canadians (3.2%) have social anxiety disorder, 480,000 Canadians
(1.5%) have panic disorder, and 227,000 Canadians (0.7%) have
agoraphobia. Anxiety disorders were especially common in the young
people in the survey (ages 15 to 24) with 6.5% experiencing one of
these problems over the last year and 12% over their lifetime. These
are low estimates of the rates of serious anxiety disorders in the
population because several important ...