First of all, depression is a treatable. Yes, you may be facing with depression but it is not the end of the world, it is just a disease like cold, flu or fever.

Depression is just a term people use to describe a general feeling of sadness or being fed-up with some situation. You are dealing with depression if you face the negative feelings of more than 2 weeks and this feeling is enough to interfere with your work, relationship, and daily life.

People with depression often feel ashamed or like a failure whom cannot lead a healthy life compare to others. Here, I would like to help you to understand how common depression is, even though this has not been commonly talk about especially within friends, family and colleagues.

Depression is the most common mental disorder in the world affecting more than 120 million people and roughly 1 in 5 women and 1 in 10 men is experiencing depression which is enough to classified as clinical and needs treatment.

Almost 15% of elderly, 3% of the children and 8% of the adolescents are having depression symptoms but usually they are under-recognized and under-treated as these are the ages that is thought to have worry-free life.

In today’s world, you will notice that there is no clear pattern in depression, depression is happening everyday in both the developed countries and developing countries.

Geographically, there are lesser people with depression in the east compare to the west but it is estimated that the depression is on the rise in the east for the last few years. The problem is the east always demands positive images on the outside which causes difficult is clear diagnosis.

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