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Infographic: Changes in treatment areas, 2020–2022

Infographic showing the percentage of practitioners reporting an increase in patients with various diagnoses since the beginning of the pandemic

Details of infographic from APA’s 2022 Covid-19 practitioner impact survey

Percentage reporting increase since the beginning of the pandemic

Anxiety disorders

  • 2020: 74%
  • 2021: 83%
  • 2022: 79%

Depressive disorders

  • 2020: 60%
  • 2021: 72%
  • 2022: 66%

Trauma- and stressor-related disorders

  • 2020: 51%
  • 2021: 62%
  • 2022: 64%

Sleep-wake disorders

  • 2020: 48%
  • 2021: 53%
  • 2022: 49%

Obsessive-compulsive and related disorders

  • 2020: 31%
  • 2021: 42%
  • 2022: 43%

Substance-related and addictive disorders

  • 2020: 29%
  • 2021: 43%
  • 2022: 47%

Feeding and eating disorders

  • 2020: 20%
  • 2021: 28%
  • 2022: 27%

Persistent and severe mental illness

  • 2021: 23%
  • 2022: 26%

Cognitive disorders

  • 2021: 20%
  • 2022: 23%