Facts and Figures
50% of all lifetime cases of mental illness begin by age
________.
What is 14?
In order to receive a diagnosis of depression, a person must show signs of one of these two things.
What is depressed mood or loss of interest or pleasure?
This type of clinical treatment is the most common for depression.
What are antidepressants?
This depressive disorder is disabling and prevents a person from functioning normally. A person may experience this kind of depression once in a lifetime, but more often will experience multiple episodes.
What is major depressive disorder?
The leading cause of disability in the United States of people between the ages of 15 and 44.
What is depression?
By age 24, ____% of all lifetime cases of mental illness begin.
What is 75?
This symptom of depression is the inability to sleep adequately.
What is insomnia?
Anxiety, rumination, and excessive worry are symptoms of this depression specifier.
What is anxious distress?
Previously called manic-depression, this disorder causes cycling mood swings ranging from the lows of depression to the highs of mania and is not as common as major depression.
What is bipolar disorder?
Depression is diagnosed ___ times more in women than in men.
What is 2?
The average delay between onset of symptoms and intervention is ____-____ years
What is 8-10?
Ways that depression can manifest through physical symptoms such as headaches, pains, fatigue.
What are somatic symptoms?
This is the best form of therapy for treating depression.
What is cognitive behavior therapy?
This type of depression is much more serious than the "baby blues" that many women experience after giving birth.
What is postpartum depression?
This city has the #1 rate of Seasonal Affective Disorder.
What is Seattle?
Only _______ % of youth with mental illness receive treatment.
What is 50?
You must be experiencing symptoms of depression for how long before you can be diagnosed?
What are two weeks?
Percentage of individuals with ED who also have co-occurring depression.
50%
What is seasonal affective disorder (major depressive disorder with seasonal pattern)?
People over the age of ___ make up 13% of the population, but 25% of suicides.
What is 65?
21% of youth aged ______-______ live with mental illness severe enough to cause significant impairment in their day-to-day lives.
What is 13-18?
Before a person is diagnosed with depression, doctors should check this organ in the body to make sure it is functioning correctly and not causing the person's symptoms (Hint: it's in your neck).
What is the thyroid?
Sitting in a room full of light can help people who are depressed during the winter time.
True
This depressive disorder is characterized by long term (over 2 years) of symptoms that may not be severe enough to disable a person, but can prevent feeling well or functioning normally.
What is persistent depressive disorder?