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What fascinates Herzallah these days is what factors have allowed the 60% of the population to avoid the effects by depression.
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Conditions are poor, and residents suffer much higher rates of depression and disease than the rest of the population.
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With depression affecting some 10 percent of the American population and cited as the reason behind most suicides, National Institute of Mental Health director Dr. Steven Hyman says it would be fair to say the illness had now assumed epidemic proportions.
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But there was a fear that it deterred MPs from disclosing mental health problems or even seeking treatment - and since a quarter of adults would suffer from depression, it could discourage a large proportion of the population from seeking to serve.
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In a study of 26 stockbrokers he conducted a decade ago, Mr. Cass found nearly one-quarter had clinical levels of depression, more than three times the rate among the general population.
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Anxiety disorders and depression are the most common mental illnesses: 28.8% of the general population will have an anxiety disorder in their lifetime and 20.8% will have a mood disorder, according to a 2005 study published in the Archives of General Psychiatry.
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While working at a free clinic in Galveston, Texas, a city with over 50% of its population uninsured, Vineet observed that patients kept coming back to the clinic primarily due to stress, diabetes, and depression.
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