5M Canadians experienced a mental health disorder in 2022: StatCan

More than five million Canadians experienced some form of mental health disorder in 2022, a new Statistics Canada study has revealed.

StatCan says those Canadians “met the diagnostic criteria for a mood, anxiety or substance use disorder, with the prevalence of mood and anxiety disorders increasing substantially over the previous 10 years(opens in a new tab).”

In the study, “Mental disorders and access to mental health care(opens in a new tab),” published Friday, the government agency used data from the Mental Health and Access to Care Survey to analyze the number of Canadians who meet the criteria for mental health disorders, whether they have been diagnosed by a doctor or not.