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According to the National Alliance on Mental Health, 43.8 million Americans experience mental illness in a given year and up to 42 million American adults live with anxiety disorders. It is still quite striking to me that depression is the leading cause of disability worldwide, and is a major contributor to the global burden of disease.\\xa0

Specifically in millennials, there has been a 47% increase in major-depression diagnoses since 2013, according to a Blue Cross Blue Shield report.\\xa0

Though we are clearly in the midst of a crisis, I am hopeful in reading the Business Insider\\u2019s statement claiming that \\u201cthey're [millennials] more likely to go to therapy than previous generations, destigmatizing the concept in the process.\\u201d