- Depressed people may feel sad, anxious, empty, hopeless, helpless, worthless, guilty, irritable, or restless.
- 66 percent of people suffering from depression do not seek necessary treatment
- 92 percent of depressed African-American males do not seek treatment.
- Females experience depression about twice as often as males.
- Depression is associated with changes in substances in the brain (neurotransmitters) that help nerve cells communicate, such as serotonin, dopamine and norepinephrine.
- Fifteen percent of the population of most developed countries suffers severe depression.
- Suicide was the 9th leading cause of death in the U.S. in 1996.
- Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) has an 80 percent relapse rate in the long term.
- A 2010 review suggests that the genes which control the body clock may contribute to depression.
- Eighty percent of people who see physicians are depressed.
- Depression will be the 2nd largest killer after heart disease by 2020.
- Depressive disorders affect approximately 9.5 percent of the U.S. population age 18 and older in a given year.
- Up to 8.3% of adolescents in the U.S. suffer from depression.
- At least 4% of preschoolers - over a million - are clinically depressed.
- The highest suicide rates in the United States are found in white men over age 85.
- 30 percent of women are depressed.
- Postpartum depression is a form of major depression which can affect women, after childbirth.
Facts about depression (mood)
