What makes the difference in
the highest versus lowest rates of depression by country?
Some say it has to do
with culture, because a country’s culture can have a huge impact not only on an
individual’s depression level but on the availability of treatment service and
their cost. There is some sense that the countries with the lowest rates of
depression have recently begun adding mental health resources for their
residents and at an affordable cost.
Others suggest that, in addition, those
countries have worked at destigmatizing a diagnosis of depression (or of
anxiety disorder), making it more acceptable to talk about it openly and
encouraging its citizens to take advantage of the available resources.
More
tomorrow.
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