What are the statistics on depression?
Studies seem to indicate that it is. Also, increased knowledge is lifting the stigma of depressive disease, and people feel freer to admit their symptoms. Despite the large numbers of people that physicians do see, estimates are that they are only a small percentage of those actually suffering from the disease. Millions of people still suffer in silence and shame. Statistics on depression say that it occurs in approximately three to four people out of every 1,000. Those figures may be low because depression can easily be misdiagnosed as another illness or because of people who do not seek medical help. About 20 million people in the United States, and 100 million worldwide, suffer from diagnosable depression at any one time. Isn’t depression just a cop-out for living one’s life? Depression is a biological brain disease and is no more a cop-out than cancer. A person suffering from depression can be just as incapacitated as someone who suffers from any another physical illness. Depressio
