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As with all my pages, this page also concerns a topic that I feel strongly about.   Depression is a fact of life that many people deal with on a day to day basis.   Some of these sites concern those people.   Some of the other sites concern the loved ones who surround us.   If you're looking for a particular kind of information that you don't find here, please feel free to email me and I'll see what I can find :-)   Down below, I've listed an excerpt from a webpage I found that contains excellent resources.



What Depression Is:
    -Depression is an illness, in the same way that diabetes or heart disease are illnesses.

    -Depression is an illness that affects the entire body, not just the mind.

    -Depression is an illness that one in five people will suffer during their lifetime.

    -Depression is the leading cause of alcoholism, drug abuse and other addictions.

    -Depression is an illness that can be successfully treated in more than eighty percent of the people who have it.

    -Depression is an equal-opportunity illness - it affects all ages, all races, all economic groups and both genders. Women, however, suffer from depression twice as much as men do.

    -At least half of the people suffering from depression do not get proper treatment.

    -Untreated depression is the number one cause of suicide.

    -Depression is second only to heart disease in causing lost work days in America.



    What Depression Is Not:

    -Depression is not something to be ashamed of.

    -Depression is not the same thing as feeling "blue" or "down."

    -Depression is not a character flaw or the sign of a weak personality.

    -Depression is not a "mood" someone can "snap out of." (Would you ask someone to "snap out of" diabetes?)

    -Depression is not fully recognized as an illness by most health care insurance providers. Most will only pay 50% of treatment costs for out-patient care, as well as limiting the number of visits.

    Copyright © 1995,1996 Deborah M. Deren, Revised December 1, 1996
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