A new survey on depression in the workforce indicates that one in six North American adults have been diagnosed with the illness.
Fourteen per cent of Canadians and 20 per cent of Americans told an Ipsos Reid survey they'd been diagnosed by a doctor.
Overall, 22 per cent in Canada and 21 per cent in the United States think they suffer from depression but never had it properly diagnosed.
More women than men suffer from it, and the illness is more prevalent among those with lower income and less education.
Depression thus is more connected with poverty and lower education than neurotransmitter imbalance.
Even though rich people who are well educated are as likely to suffer depression, the poor and the high school grads are likely to be diagnosed with depression.
As well, they are more likely to be in therapy and be prescribed anti-depressants than richer people who may be in therapy but usually not on anti-depressants.
This can be confirmed with reports that people involved in mass killings tend to be from lower income backgrounds, or recently unemployed, and have recently been put on anti-depressants.
Only rarely are depressed rich people in the news, and usually their depression is comorbid with another behavior disorder.
Yet more and more people are being placed on anti-depressants and complaining of side effects of those ADs, including abreactions to anxiety (insomnia, manic episodes, hypomania and psychotic episodes).
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