Not everyone encounters it on a day to day basis, so this is another reason that people don t think about it a lot. Here is some information for you to use in your life and to help others that may not know about depression. Many more people are depressed than you may realize. In fact, in the United States alone, five percent of all Americans may suffer from depression at any given time. And twenty-five percent of Americans will have a major depressive episode once in their life.
Depression can happen to anyone.
There is no one type of person that will suffer. Although, depression is likely to be inherited, so if someone in your family suffered from depression, then you have a higher risk of suffering as well. Also, women seem to suffer from depression slightly more than men do. Sometimes a major life changing event, such as a death in the family, divorce, moving, changing or losing a job, can bring on a depression, but a lot of the time depression will hit when all is going well. When this happens, it is caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain.