Doing a report on depression need help wht r some facts tht can help <span title="me...PLZZZZZ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!">me...PLZZZZZ!!!!!!!!!!!!!...</span> HELP!!!?

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Answer 1

Of the estimated 17.5 million Americans who are affected by some form of depression, 9.2 million have major or clinical depression



Two-thirds of people suffering from depression do not seek necessary treatment



80% of all people with clinical depression who have received treatment significantly improve their lives



The economic cost of depression is estimated at $30.4 billion a year but the cost in human suffering cannot be estimated



Women experience depression about twice as often as men



By the year 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that depression will be the number two cause of &quot;lost years of healthy life&quot; worldwide



According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) suicide was the ninth leading cause of death in the United States in 1996



Major Depression is 1.5-3.0 times more common among first-degree biological relatives of those with the disorder than among the general population

Depressive disorders affect approximately 18.8 million American adults or about 9.5% of the U.S. population age 18 and older in a given year. This includes major depressive disorder, dysthymic disorder, and bipolar disorder.

Everyone, will at some time in their life be affected by depression -- their own or someone else&#039;s, according to Australian Government statistics. (Depression statistics in Australia are comparable to those of the US and UK.)

Pre-schoolers are the fastest-growing market for antidepressants. At least four percent of preschoolers -- over a million -- are clinically depressed.

The rate of increase of depression among children is an astounding 23% p.a.

15% of the population of most developed countries suffers severe depression.

30% of women are depressed. Men&#039;s figures were previously thought to be half that of women, but new estimates are higher.

54% of people believe depression is a personal weakness.

41% of depressed women are too embarrassed to seek help.

80% of depressed people are not currently having any treatment.

92% of depressed African-American males do not seek treatment.

15% of depressed people will commit suicide.

Depression will be the second largest killer after heart disease by 2020 -- and studies show depression is a contributory factor to fatal coronary disease.

Depression results in more absenteeism than almost any other physical disorder and costs employers more than US$51 billion per year in absenteeism and lost productivity, not including high medical and pharmaceutical bills.

Antidepressants work for 35 to 45% of the depressed population, while more recent figures suggest as low as 30%.

Standard antipressants, SSRIs such as Prozac, Paxil (Aropax) and Zoloft, have recently been revealed to have serious risks, and are linked to suicide, violence, psychosis, abnormal bleeding and brain tumors.

Government (FDA) warnings highlight concerns over the efficacy and use of antidepressants in children. Antidepressants with the exception of Prozac have been banned in Britain for children. The BMJ recently reported they found no scientific evidence whatsoever that SSRIs work for preschoolers (or for anyone under eighteen).

Antidepressants (particularly SSRIs) work only as well (or less) than placebos.

Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) has an 80% relapse rate in the long term.

Most doctors advise a combination of therapy and antidepressants

Answer 2

Try going to wikipedia it should give you alot.

I know millions were killed.

There were a bunch of secret consentration camps.

You could say some stuff about Anne Franks story.

You can tell what they did in the consentration camps.

You can say why Hitler started going aginst all the Jewish people.

You can explain how he took over the goverment with him as the leader and all of his people as the rest of the goverment.

You can say how Einstein came to the us to escape cause he was jewish and how he ended up helping us with the A-bomb.

Im not going to give you the answers to these things cause i dont want to practically do the report for you. lol

Good luck!