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health advisory Hospital Mental Health 2007-11-15 19:01:45

Through the NHS and with companies having to forgo not having their employees in a settled state of mind.

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yes very, even in children now. but there are many forms of it.

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very common

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yes, its very common, but it depends on the severity of depression you mean!!! i myself started being depressed when i was 15 when a friend of mine died, i covered it up for 3 or 4 years before i had the courage to get help! it also never goes away even after medication which i stopped taking when i was 20, its with you for life whether you like it or not, it may be an underlying feeling but its always there and can easily be triggered into returning! i'm now nearly 24 and i'm terrified of my depression coming back in the severity of how it was then!! my mum also has depression but shes been off medication for over 10 years and is doing great! i think its sad that theres still such a stigma to having depression and taking the medication to help u get better!!

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The commonly cited 1in4 statistic relates to ALL mental health problems diagnosed. NOT ALL of these will be depression. However, it is generally accepted that the majority of cases of depression are undiagnosed, so the figure is likely to be much higher. it's prevalence is higher in women, and it is getting more and more common generally.

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YES! For obvious reaons, I recently discovered that a lot of my friends have or are suffering from depression. I just realised that I've already anwered a question of yours, but if you're able to open up to friends, you'll realise that you're by no means alone. I suppose this is a good site because you can remain anonymous, but being able to discuss it with someone you know and trust can be a tremendous help. You don't need to live with this, you can get over it.

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i am not a doc.but if you feel you have it .............its not as easy as shake it off . you know its here it lives with you x

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Yes, more than the statistics would acknowledge. Focusing on what you don't want rather than what you do, is simply not true.

In the past people would be unhappy when something went wrong - we then did something about it.

Nowadays, we are not empowered to put anything right. What goes wrong is done to us and not by us. In the old days there used to be social rules ...now there is just an imbalance of power with uneducated, unsocial "loads a money" animals and consequentially increasing depression and medication.

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