Causes/Risk Factors
Demographics
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Suicide
Treatment
100
People who use this are more likely to be or become depressed.
What are recreational drugs?
100
How many people experience some form of depression.
What is 1 in 4 people?
100
The World Health Organization estimates that depression will be the 2nd highest medical cause of disability by this year.
What is 2030?
100
The 3rd leading cause of death for 15 to 24-year-olds and 2nd for 24 to 35-year-olds.
What is suicide?
100
The usage of psychological methods to help a person suffering from depression to overcome their illness.
What is psychotherapy?
200
If these people have depression, you are far more likely to become depressed as well.
What are family members?
200
How common it is for women to experience depression.
What is twice as likely as men?
200
How many people worldwide suffer from depression?
What is more then 350 million people?
200
How often, on average, suicide occurs.
What is 16.2 minutes?
200
Passing electrical currents through to brain to temporarily relief major depression.
What is electroconvulsive therapy?
300
This is usually caused by your genes and is one of the main causes of depression.
What are changes in brain chemistry?
300
How common it is for HIV patients to experience depression.
What is 1 in 3?
300
A form of depression characterized by disturbing false fixed beliefs (delusions) or hearing or seeing upsetting things that others cannot hear or see (hallucinations).
What is psychotic depression?
300
The season with the highest suicide rates in the United States.
What is spring?
300
SSRI Drugs
What is the most common class of medications used to treat depression?
400
This causes a profound change in your body's hormones and can sometimes cause postpartum depression.
What is pregnancy?
400
32 years old
What is the median age of onset of depression?
400
How many children ages 10 to 14 commit suicide each year.
What is 1 in 65000?
400
The number 1 cause of suicide.
What is depression that is untreated, undiagnosed, or ineffectively treated?
400
A coping technique often used to aid in the treatment of depression that is derived from Eastern (especially Buddhist) spiritual practices.
What is mindfulness?
500
A rare cause of depression, caused by misfunction of an organ located in your neck.
What is thyroid disease?
500
People with depression are 4 times as likely to experience this.
What is a heart attack?
500
How many people are intimately and seriously affected by one suicide.
What is at least 6 other people?
500
The most common method of suicide.
What are firearms?
500
How often treatment for depression is successful.
What is more then 80%?
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