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Dating With Depression
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Dating With Depression
By Kelly Jones
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Depression Facts

 

 

 

 

 

 

  • Everyone will be affected by depression -- their own or someone else's. (Source: Australian government)
     
  • 15 per cent of the population of most developed countries suffers severe depression. (Source: World Health Organization)
     
  • The estimated annual economic cost of depression is $30.4 billion USD. (Source: Department of Psychiatry, Washington University)
     
  • By 2020, WHO estimates that depression will be the number two cause of "lost years of healthy life." (Projected number one? Ischemic heart disease.)
     
  • Preschoolers are the fastest-growing market for antidepressants. (Source: Psychiatric Services April 2004)
     
  • 54 per cent believe depression is a personal weakness. (Source: National Mental Health Association)
     
  • 80 per cent of depressed people are not being treated. (Source: National [U.S.] Healthcare Quality Report, 2003)
     
     
     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     


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