Treatment can alleviate the symptoms in over 80 percent of cases. Yet, because it often goes unrecognized, depression continues to cause unnecessary suffering.
Women experience depression at roughly twice the rate of men.
Everyone has felt sad at times. Depressed individuals tend to rationalize their depression and deny their illness as something normal. They feel that their feeling of sadness has some rational foundation. Most people believe that if they are coping with a tragic event or difficult situation, they have a right to be depressed. They also think that their depression will be relieved as soon as the tragedy is alleviated.