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Originally Posted by ultramar
As someone mentioned, I think it would be helpful if people knew just how rare this disorder is. I think it's occurrence is a little over 1%. This means that some 98-99% of the population does not have it and sometimes I feel like screaming this statistic from the rooftops..
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there was no way i could believe this. because schizophrenia is about 1%
i went to the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) website and it says bipolar is 2.6% or 5.7mil people which seems to be pretty consistent on the web.