Did you know ...

• Depression is one of the most common mental disorders affecting 340 million people in the world today, accounting for a full 10% of productive years lost throughout the world.
• No one is immune from depression - it occurs in people of all social classes, all countries and all cultural settings.
• One in four women and one in ten men can expect to develop depression during their lifetime, but it's not just adults who suffer...
• ...depression affects at least one in 50 children under 12 and one in 20 teenagers.
• About half of all cases of depression is unrecognized and untreated.
• About 10-15 per cent of depressed people take their own lives.
• Depression costs for example the United States an estimated $53 billion each year.
• The World Health Organization predicts that by the year 2020 depression will be the greatest burden of ill-health to people in the developing world, and that by
  then severe depression will be the second largest cause of death and disability.
• BUT DEPRESSION IS ONE OF THE MOST TREATABLE MENTAL ILLNESSES.

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