Is there any published information on the numbers or percentage of "mentally ill" patients in the USA?

Question

I am more interested in those who might be institutionalized to prevent harm to self or others than those who might be medicated or in therapy and living among the general population. Recently collected hard data on either group, however, would be appreciated.

Answer 1

The number of people institutionalized to prevent harm to self to others has dramatically dropped due to laws which protect the mentally ill from excessive hospitalization and medication.

The criminal justice system sends many people with both pending not criminally responsible defenses and convicted of being not criminally responsible to institutions.

http://www.psychlaws.org may have better numbers regarding the number of people who are being treated for mental illness while awaiting trial or future disposition from a judge.

Overall, 2+% of people are receiving mental health services in America.

Answer 2

i did find an interesting website about what your talking about but it doesn't have the number of patients on the USA .
although it has some interesting facts about how it used to be treated .

apparently our ignorance many times had make us do the most horrendous things and our worst victims had been the mentally ill who had been victims of our own madness and the most cruel things .

the website explains that they used to be treated by scientist as a ground for experiments , i think that its really sick .
http://www.wingtv.net/thorn2006/langston.html

i also look at the wikipedia and it says that according to National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI)
23 percent of adults will suffer from a mental illness at a given year but only half will have symptoms severe enough to disrupt their lives . it also says that 13 to 9 percent of all children do have serious emotional disturbance with substantial functional impairment ( that in the USA ) .
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mentally_ill

here is also the official website of nami i hope it helps :
http://www.nami.org/

Answer 3

yeah me!!! Oh sorry. No. Busch! No.
That's not what you're asking.

Try the National Health boards and local hospital and medical schools. Need websites ?