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“The so-called ‘psychotically depressed’ person who tries to kill herself doesn’t do so out of quote ‘hopelessness’ or any abstract conviction that life’s assets and debits do not square. And surely not because death seems suddenly appealing. The person in whom Its invisible agony reaches a certain unendurable level will kill herself the same way a trapped person will eventually jump from the window of a burning high-rise. Make no mistake about people who leap from burning windows. Their terror of falling from a great height is still just as great as it would be for you or me standing speculatively at the same window just checking out the view; i.e. the fear of falling remains a constant. The variable here is the other terror, the fire’s flames: when the flames get close enough, falling to death becomes the slightly less terrible of two terrors. It’s not desiring the fall; it’s terror of the flames. And yet nobody down on the sidewalk, looking up and yelling ‘Don’t!’ and ‘Hang on!’, can understand the jump. Not really. You’d have to have personally been trapped and felt flames to really understand a terror way beyond falling.”
― David Foster Wallace

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"I think the saddest people always try their hardest to make people happy because they know what it's like to feel absolutely worthless and they don't want anyone else to feel like that"

healthyplace.com

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Depression was originally called melancholia. The earliest accounts of the disease are from early Mesopotamian texts. Around that time, mental illness was equated to demonic possession. Cicero was the first to argue that depression/melancholia was due to mental issues and not physical ones.
www.mentalhelp.net

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~20% of people with Major depression develop psychotic symptoms
~10-15% of women develop postpartum depression
~350 million people suffer from depression worldwide (that's 5% of the total population)
~women are more likely to become depressed than men
~There are many types. These include:
-major depression
-persistent depressive disorder
-seasonal affective disorder
-postpartum depression
-psychotic depression
www.healthline.com

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~Medication like anti-depressants
~Psychotherapy
~Brain stimulation therapy

Medications are the most successful and would need to be taken for 2-4 weeks at least
www.nimh.nih.gov

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~Medicine- $30-$200 per month
~Some therapy and counseling is provided for no cost
~Private counseling- $50-$240 per 1 hr session
depression.informedchoices.ca

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Everybody can suffer from depression but it is more prevalent in females between the ages of 15 and 25
www.nimh.nih.gov

Others likely to suffer:
Transgendered- struggle w/ isolation and prejudice
Veterans- struggle going back to normal life
Creative people- lack of support, isolation
Introverts and perfectionists- isolation
Women, African Americans, Hispanics, people w/ no higher than a high school education and people over the age of 45
medicaldaily.com

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~Constant sad or anxious mood
~Feeling of hopelessness, guilt or pessimism
~Loss of energy
~Disrupted eating and sleeping patterns
~Suicidal thought or actions
~Headaches, cramps with no obvious cause
www.nimh.nih.gov

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A mood disorder that causes symptoms that effect your feelings, thinking and ability to perform daily activities like eating or sleeping.
www.nimh.nih.gov

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Prevalence in Teens

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Prevalence in Adults