Do you wonder if that blue feeling you have is depression? While everyone experiences sadness at a loss or disappointment at certain points in life, a surprising number of people are affected by major depressive disorder , an unrelenting form of sadness and despair.
The statistics are staggering. According to the U. The Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance states that depression affects more than 23 million Americans every year and that it is the most common serious brain disease in the United States. Numbers from the World Health Organization estimate that about million people have depression globally.
Knowing why depression sets in and who's likely to be affected by it can help you better understand it and recognize it, should a major depressive disorder take root. Major depression is more than just feeling low. One depression fact that holds true across racial and economic differences is that depression is twice as common in women as it is in men.
Major depression is most likely to affect people between the ages of 45 and Late-life depression affects about six million Americans, but 90 percent of them never seek help.
That statistic can be confusing because black Americans are actually 40 percent less likely to experience depression during their lifetime, according to NIMH. Percentage of adults aged 18 and over with symptoms of depression in the past 2 weeks, by symptom severity and age group: United States, Those categorized as having no or minimal symptoms of depression are not shown in this figure.
Any severity includes those categorized as having either mild, moderate, or severe symptoms of depression in the past 2 weeks. Access data table for Figure 2 pdf icon. Figure 3. Percentage of adults aged 18 and over with symptoms of depression in the past 2 weeks, by symptom severity and sex: United States, Access data table for Figure 3 pdf icon.
Figure 4. Percentage of adults aged 18 and over with symptoms of depression in the past 2 weeks, by symptom severity and race and Hispanic origin: United States, Access data table for Figure 4 pdf icon. During , approximately one in five Women were more likely than men to experience symptoms of depression across all severity levels. While there was no significant trend by age among adults experiencing severe symptoms of depression, adults aged 18—29 and those aged 65 and over were most likely to experience mild symptoms of depression.
A higher percentage of adults aged 45—64 experienced moderate symptoms of depression compared with those aged 30—44 and 65 and over.
Adults aged 18—29 were as likely to experience moderate symptoms of depression as those aged 45—64, but the observed differences with the other age groups were not significant.
Non-Hispanic white and non-Hispanic black adults were most likely to experience mild symptoms of depression, compared with Hispanic and non-Hispanic Asian adults.
Non-Hispanic Asian adults were least likely to experience mild, moderate, or severe symptoms of depression, compared with Hispanic, non-Hispanic white, and non-Hispanic black adults. The PHQ—8 scale is a valid screening and diagnostic measure for depressive disorders with a score of 10 or higher corresponding to moderate and severe symptoms and indicative of current depression 3.
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