If you’re in crisis or you need immediate help
Call 911 or go to the nearest hospital emergency room.
Call 911 or go to the nearest hospital emergency room.
You can also call The Lake County Crisis Hotline at: 440-953-8255
For a list of ADAMHS providers click here.
If you’d like some guidance, please consider calling our Compass Line.
- NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness) : www.nami.org
- Ohio Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services: www.mha.ohio.gov
- Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA): www.samhsa.gov
- National Institute on Drug Abuse: www.drugabuse.gov
- Search Institute: www.search-institute.org
- Ohio Suicide Prevention Foundation: www.ohiospf.org
Mental Illness
- Mental illnesses are medical conditions that disrupt thinking, feeling, mood, ability to relate to others, and daily functioning.
- People are typically not born with a mental illness, but genetic predispositions/family history are often factors.
- Mental illnesses are treatable.
- Life expectancy for someone with a mental illness can be up to 25 years shorter than for someone without – often due to untreated physical conditions.
- One-in-four adults will experience mental illness Mental illness is more common than cancer, diabetes, or heart disease.
- Two of three Ohioans say they’re impacted by a friend or family member with an addiction or mental illness.
The Most Common Mental Illnesses Include:
Depression
- Very common and very treatable.
- When untreated, characterized by sadness, fatigue, poor concentration, sleep problems,, unintended weight loss/gain, excessive guilt and sometimes thoughts of suicide.
Bipolar Disorder
- Characterized by unusual and dramatic shifts in mood, energy and the ability to think clearly. Very high highs, and very low lows.
- Affects more than 10 million Americans
- Affects men and women equally
- Can start any time in life, but more than half of all cases begin between ages 15-25
Anxiety Disorders
- The most common mental illnesses in America. Affects around 20 percent of the population.
- If untreated, anxiety disorders can be severely impairing.
- Can cause people to feel excessively frightened, distressed, or uneasy during situations in which most of us would not.
Schizophrenia
- Impacts a person’s ability to think clearly, manage emotions, make decisions and relate to others
- When untreated, may cause unusual, inappropriate and sometimes unpredictable and disorganized behavior
- Behaviors often caused by the delusions and hallucinations that are symptoms of schizophrenia.
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
- Often described as “a disease of doubt”. People with OCD are unable to distinguish between what is possible, what is probable, and what is unlikely to happen.
- Strikes people of all social and ethnic groups and both males and females.
- Symptoms typically begin during childhood, the teenage years, or young adulthood.
- Genetics: If you, your parent or a sibling have OCD, there’s close to a 25 percent chance that another of your immediate family will have it.
Abuse & Addiction
Alcohol, Opiates, Heroin, Marijuana and Other Drugs
- The United States consumes 50% of the world’s illicit cocaine, 80% of the world’s opioid pain pills, and 99% of the world’s Vicodin. Yet the U.S. represents only 4.6% of the world’s population.
- Accidental drug overdoses are now responsible for more deaths than auto accidents.
- Nine of the ten largest pharmaceutical companies now spend more on marketing than on R&D.
- Only about 10% of people with substance abuse disorders receive treatment.