CERTAIN ESSENTIAL FACTS ABOUT MAJOR DEPRESSION…

The most important fact about depression:

DEPRESSION CAN BE OVERCOME!

No matter how long your experience of being depressed has lasted, it is possible to overcome it. It can be hard work, but quite feasible.

Depression is one of the greatest problems and killers of our time. Here we list some latest depression statistics and also reveal surprising facts about underlying major depression:

Ø      Clinical or major depression is growing at an incredible rate.

Ø     Depression is one of the most common mental disorders affecting 340 million people in the world today.

Ø     Depression affects so many people that it is often referred to as the "common cold" of mental illness.

Ø      Age of onset for depression is steadily decreasing.

Ø     While major depressive disorder can develop at any age, the average age at onset is the mid-twenties.

Ø    The World Health Organisation (WHO) has predicted that by 2020, depression will be the second biggest health problem world-wide and leading cause of disability and death world-wide, second only to heart disease.

Ø    It is estimated that depression exacts an economic cost of over $30 billion each year.

The economic cost for this disorder is high, but the cost in human suffering cannot be estimated.