Depression

We live in an era of depression. The World Health Organization estimates that depression affects 121 million people across the globe. It is the 4th leading cause of global disease burden, and, by the year 2020, it will be the 2nd leading cause. Plus, the experience of depression can be intensely pai [...]
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We live in an era of depression. The World Health Organization estimates that depression affects 121 million people across the globe. It is the 4th leading cause of global disease burden, and, by the year 2020, it will be the 2nd leading cause. Plus, the experience of depression can be intensely painful. At its worst, it leads to suicide, killing approximately 850,000 persons every year. Despite the extensive suffering caused by depression, there remains considerable confusion about how to understand it. Depression reviews and advances the current state of the art on this very complicated human condition.