A sobering new survey from Gallup finds that 29% of Americans have been diagnosed with depression at some point in their lives – the highest percentage ever recorded, and nearly 10 percentage points higher than in 2015.
Americans currently being treated for depression stands at almost 1 in 5, according to Gallup, up about 7 points from eight years ago. This too is the highest rate ever recorded by Gallup.
Depression rates are appreciably higher among women (36.7%) than among men (20.4%), and younger people between the ages of 18 and 44 have far higher depression diagnosis rates than their elders.
Alarming rates of depression are not unique to the U.S. Globally, nearly four in 10 adults aged 15 and older either endure significant depression or anxiety themselves or have a close friend or family member who suffers from it. Other Gallup research has estimated that 22% of Northern American adults have experienced depression or anxiety so extreme that they could not continue regular daily activities for two weeks or longer.
Clinical depression had been slowly rising in the U.S. prior to the COVID-19 pandemic but has jumped notably in its wake. Social isolation, loneliness, fear of infection, psychological exhaustion (particularly among front-line responders such as healthcare workers), elevated substance abuse and disruptions in mental health services have all likely played a role.
While experiences of significant daily loneliness have subsided in the past two years amid widespread vaccinations and a slow return to normalcy, elevated loneliness experiences during the pandemic likely played a substantive role in increasing the rates of the longer-term, chronic nature of depression. Currently, 17% of U.S. adults report experiencing significant loneliness “yesterday,” projecting to an estimated 44 million people.
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This whole article is depressing.
No need to look for specific causes. The rise in depression is due to the fact that our society is sick as a whole. Depression, and other problems, are a cry for sanity in an otherwise insane world. Instead of fixing the people who are “depressed”; fix the society.
the torah of hashem is the antidote for everything
he who doesn’t have torah has nothing
How can that be ?
Our houses are bigger than ever and cars more luxurious than ever?!
This reflects additional ” spike protein fallout” from the “jab” . Longitudinal research will confirm this. Shmarteim meod as nafshosachem!!!! There is no shame in suffering and seeking help; Obfuscation is a huge part of the plandemic
Tell everyone to work on their BITACHON AND EMUNAH IN HASHEM and then once they become true people of complete faith and trust in Hashem directly then they will become the happiest person in the world cause nothing in the world will depress or bother them and no one will be able to hurt their beautiful life. A person blessed to live such a fortunate life is allergic to one thing only “worries” the person is completely worry free cause nothing in the world can effect him.
They don’t teach belief in God and they brainwash society and teens and kids in particular that indulging in sick teivos is “natural” and normal and should be encouraged…this is bringing the Americans to become massively depressed. As a result, the “mental health” industry, which helped contribute to this terrible situation, is becoming bigger and bigger and richer and richer as people turn to the wrong place for the cure for their depression but since it originates from the soul’s yearning for a connection to God and yearning for the person to grow instead of descending into levels lower than behaimos, this situation will just keep on getting worse. We await the arrival of Moshiach to save our country, and the world, from complete descendance into the tehoim….