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Data were analyzed from May 2022 to March 2023.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec id=\"ab-yoi230048-7\"><jats:title>Main Outcomes and Measures<\/jats:title><jats:p>Lifetime incidence of any treated mental health disorder in the general population was estimated from birth to age 100 years taking into account the competing risk of all-cause death and associations with socioeconomic functioning. Register measures were (1) from hospitals, a diagnosis of any mental health disorder at an inpatient\/outpatient hospital contact; (2) from hospitals and prescription statistics, any mental health disorder\/psychotropic prescription, including a hospital-contact diagnosis, or any psychotropic medication prescribed by physicians, including general practitioners or private psychiatrists; and (3) socioeconomic functioning as indicated by highest educational achievement, employment, income, residential status, and marital status.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec id=\"ab-yoi230048-8\"><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>Among a sample of 462\u202f864 individuals with any mental health disorder, the median (IQR) age was 36.6 years (21.0-53.6 years), 233\u202f747 (50.5%) were male, and 229\u202f117 (49.5%) were female. Of these, 112\u202f641 were registered with a hospital-contact mental health disorder diagnosis and 422\u202f080 with a prescription of psychotropic medication. The cumulative incidence of a hospital-contact mental health disorder diagnosis was 29.0% (95% CI, 28.8-29.1), 31.8% (95% CI, 31.6-32.0) for females, and 26.1% (95% CI, 25.9-26.3) for males. When also considering psychotropic prescriptions, the cumulative incidence of any mental health disorder\/psychotropic prescription was 82.6% (95% CI, 82.4-82.6), 87.5% (95% CI, 87.4-87.7) for females, and 76.7% (95% CI, 76.5-76.8) for males. Socioeconomic difficulties were associated with mental health disorder\/psychotropic prescriptions, including lower income (hazard ratio [HR], 1.55; 95% CI, 1.53-1.56), increased unemployment or disability benefit (HR, 2.50; 95% CI, 2.47-2.53), and a greater likelihood of living alone (HR, 1.78; 95% CI, 1.76-1.80) and being unmarried (HR, 2.02; 95% CI, 2.01-2.04) during long-term follow-up. These rates were confirmed in 4 sensitivity analyses with the lowest being 74.8% (95% CI, 74.7-75.0) (1) by using varying exclusion periods, (2) by excluding prescriptions of anxiolytics and quetiapine that may be used for off-label indications, (3) by defining any mental health disorder\/psychotropic prescription as any hospital-contact mental health disorder diagnosis or any psychotropic medication prescribed at least 2 times, and (4) by excluding individuals with somatic diagnoses for which psychotropics may be prescribed off-label.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec id=\"ab-yoi230048-9\"><jats:title>Conclusions and Relevance<\/jats:title><jats:p>This registry study of data from a large representative sample of the Danish population showed that the majority of individuals either received a diagnosis of a mental health disorder or were prescribed psychotropic medication during their lifetime, which was associated with subsequent socioeconomic difficulties. 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