Edited by: Judith A. Biggs, John M. Husband, Emily Hobbs-Wright, Steven T. Collis of Holland & Hart LLP.
5 tips for accommodating depression, PTSD, and other mental illnesses
An estimated 16.1 million adults in the United States had at least one major depressive episode in 2015, according to the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). That number represents 6.7 percent of all American adults who are 18 or older. Seven or eight out of every 100 people will have post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) at some point in their lives, says the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs' (VA) National Center for PTSD. That number increases to somewhere between 11 and 20 out of every 100 veterans who served in Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom. Read More...
