According to the National Institute of Mental Health, “In any given year approximately 22.1% of Americans age eighteen and older suffer from a diagnosable mental disorder. This translates to approximately forty-four million people, one-fifth of the U.S. population” (LaVeist 87). Who would have thought that “forty-four million people” in the United States would have mental disorders? I think that may be true because we never know how different everyone is until we get to know them as they open up to us, but even then who are they to openly say, “Yeah, by the way, I have a mental disorder.” It just goes to show that no we can judge no one else until we put ourselves in their shoes. We are not aware of some of these mental disorders, while others are present over time as we begin to understand them. As I continued reading this chapter I happened to read about somatization already some information on this topic, I liked the way that I could have expanded it and continued to grow more. Now, to me, "somatization" is almost like someone hiding their symptoms for someone else to feel sorry for them when in reality these symptoms may be real to the person but there is no physical evidence that anything is happening to him. It's almost as if the pain is "all in the head". This “somatization” I believe happens within any racial and ethnic group