Depression do you think it is increasing? Does it affect you?

People with busy or occupied lives, regardless, do not get depressed. Idleness can be a very good tool for lots of problems in one's life. Depression is nothing but a level of sadness. Like laughter or joy, sadness is merely a natural human emotion! You combat this situation by addressing the unpleasant events in your life. Stay away from addictive substance by doctors seeking to prevent you from being human! On the other hand, obesity and high blood sugar are also known causes of depression. If you are sufferer of any of the above, then all you need is good eating habit - especially drastic cut-down on carbohydrates and some daily exercise. No med needed or necessary! Depression, like high blood pressure or diabetes, is not an illness! Stop making the pharmaceutical industry rich and making yourself sick and senseless! Regardless of events in your life, get involved in something entertaining and/or fulfilling!

I firmly believe that the number of people suffering from depression is increasing by leaps and bounds compared to decades ago and this is partly due to over- estimation of oneself and partly due to the tough competition found everywhere in life.

I think a lot of things that are diagnosed as depression are simple, natural emotions that people used to learn to deal with. We're becoming overall, less and less disciplined and unable to handle the things that life hands us. It's okay to be sad sometimes, to be unable to focus sometimes, to not want to deal with life for a day or two sometimes. That's natural and a healthy way our bodies and minds cope with life. So many times those things are called depression and medicated and once we take medication for them, we're on a merry go round and can't get off.

It's hard to tell if it's actually increasing, or if it's just being diagnosed more. fortunately, despite a significant few STILL thinking, in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary, that depression is somehow self inflicted, and just a sign of emotional weakness, the stigma is less so than it used to be, as there is so much evidence that it's not the fault of the sufferer. it's something you have, and you didn't inflict it on yourself by being pessimistic, or by having unreasonably high expectations, or by not being tough enough to cope with real life. now we KNOW that it's caused by a physical defect, whereby the sufferer is unable to produce the right chemical balance in the brain, causing the SYMPTOM of feeling very very miserable. with the stigma being less, more people are seeking treatment, rather than just struggling on and suffering through it.

I'm pretty sure the number of people suffering from depression increased considerably in the last decades because the stress and the pressure to which people are subjected in modern society is higher and higher,and sometimes we ask too much from ourselves and push the limit by working too hard in order to acquire a social position,and eventually all this stress leaves its mark on our brains.It is normalto feel sad from time to time,but this sadness can turn into depression if things go wrong in our lives,so I think we should be very careful with our mental state and when we feel there's something wrong immediately ask for specialized asistance.We have to do tht in order to stop depression from taking over our lives and eventually from destroying us.