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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