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you know I want to share a couple of numbers

with you this morning

in June of 2020

40% of adults in the U.S.

reported struggling with mental health issues

and even abuse

abuse issues I'll get there. It's early. So think about that.

40% of adults were struggling with these issues. That's almost half the population, Leah. Just think about

that. So we have other numbers. So what is even more

amazing and more alarming is that here in the U.S., about one in six adolescents or teenagers,

you know, that age between six and 17, experience mental health disorders each year so

that's like one in six teens are having mental health problems it's kind of

amazing isn't it is and that statistic when I was looking it up was from 2016 so

that was even pre-pandemic.

I mean, you can imagine what this last year has brought in all the populations,

not even just teenagers, but adults and kids and older adults and the like.

Exactly.

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