Depression Stats That People Ought To Know | Depression-facts.net
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In spite of the documented side effects of antidepressants, they continue to be used and prescribed, primarily due to unavailability of effective alternative therapies. It must also be noted that the role of antidepressants in causing adverse side effects is also not proven scientifically. Nevertheless, children stand a higher risk of adverse effects that can be caused by heavy medication.
This means that every five years or so, the number of children affected by depression is doubled! The causes for depression in children are mostly associated with personal and family related trauma. This can be easily controlled by the parents and family members of the children.
Other child depression cases related to personality and developmental issues, which are out of control, will always be there and is an acceptable number.
The other types of depression are almost evenly spread in numbers. Chronic depression can take longer time to come under control.
Most of the adults suffering from chronic depression experience a dip in their performance in the work. This not only results in a loss of revenue, it also results in repetition of work and additional time to complete the work. Some time, error prone work is passed off as accurate work, resulting in a loss of revenue and more importantly, credibility of the people and also the business entities. It is estimated that the revenue losses caused by depression could be anywhere between 1 Billion to 20 Billion dollars.
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