As Adrian lost a brother to an overdose in the reasons he chose to raise money and awareness for mental health by competing in a Ironman is that he had trouble finding a walk, their efforts were personal run or fundraising drive in honor of mental health causes. Read more about how Adrian and Brian tackled a Ironman course and mobilized their Then the difficulty to find a suitable mental health fundraising event got me thinking and raised heaps of questions regarding how fundraising and research funds compare for physical VS mental illness and how the amount of Americans impacted by these diseases compares to the money available for research.
While only accounting for about 7000 deaths per year, even more striking, Motor Neuron Disease funding outpaced suicide funding by almost 10 times.
One in four Americans suffer from Mental Illness, more than twice as many as Breast Cancer.
Depending on the general number of individuals impacted by these two diseases, you must be at least twice as going to have experienced a fundraiser for mental illness. These seem like large numbers until you consider that mental illness impacts almost one in five Americans with nearly 4 of Americans suffering from serious mental illness,. Generally, adrian and Brian were moved by the loss of Adrian’s brother. Now look. Their motivation to raise money and awareness stemmed from a desire to improve the condition of all those suffering from mental illness worldwide. Their story is likely one you can relate to, and may even have experienced, personally, with nearly one in four Americans suffering from Mental Illness.