But businesses, governments and society as a whole will also pay a large cost if mental health and mental illness issues are not addressed. From a paper published by Ron Goeree et al. It is widely acknowledged that depression is one of the most common psychiatric disorders. Truly money can't buy happiness. Which may be one reason why depression will go from fourth place to first in developed economies and from fourth to second in developing ones as the source of global work days lost through disability and early death.
Depression is almost twice as prevalent among women as men.