Second, when considering medical treatment, people tend to look for negative symptomspain or discomfort. But that is often not the case. Each year more than 30,000 people commit suicide in the United States. Fully seventy percent of these suicides were due to untreated depression. Left untreated, depression's burden of a joyless life accumulates, day by day, month by month, year by year.
Depression can become a life-threatening illness.
The 7 - 11 ran out of glazed donuts. I'm so depressed. Depression, then, is thought of by many as simply feeling low or down. The illness of depression, many people have inaccurately concluded, must be feeling very low and very down. If these people don't feel very low or very down very often, they dismiss the possibility of depression.