India, among most depressed nations in the world: WHO Report

[aftab ahmed]

A WHO research has revealed that people living in wealthier nations are more depressed than those in relatively poorer ones.
According to research cited by The Independent, India was recorded to be among the nations with the highest rate of depression in the world at 36% making it an exception to the rule. The booming democracy is going through an unprecedented socio-economic change, which often become the reason for depression.
In France, the Netherlands and America, more than 30% of people suffered from a major depressive mode which was far higher than Chinas figure of 12%.
The WHO found that one in seven people in rich countries is likely to get depression over their lifetime which is equivalent to 15%, while one in nine (11%) in middle and low income countries is likely to go through the blues over their lifetime.
The global study also showed that women are twice as likely to suffer from the blues compared to men.
The findings were published in BMC (BioMed Central) Medicine, a medical journal.

http://tribune.com.pk/story/217709/india-most-depressed-nation-in-the-world-who-report/

 

[littlemaster]

yes ..one can guess easily on this small forum how much they have inferiority complex, a major cause of depression
:P

 

[Malik495]

na yaar pakistan men kon si shahd ki nahrain bah rahi hen jo ham india k depression pr khush hon.... yahan pr depression ka wohi haal hay jo india men hay... aata yahan nahi gas bijli yahan nahi..bayrozgari aasmano ko chooh rahi hay.. bad amni ka andaza nahi lagaya ja sakta.. aur hamain fikar lag gaee hay indian depression ki.... be nutral yaar ... pakistani nation is also very depressed yaar and this is reality.....

 

[Unicorn]

Very strange, Pakistani newspaper picked the article from the Independent written by Jeremy Laurance who claims its from world health organization data. If you go to WHO web site there is no such data.

 

[AhmedTauseef]

Very strange, Pakistani newspaper picked the article from the Independent written by Jeremy Laurance who claims its from world health organization data. If you go to WHO web site there is no such data.

trying to hide ... somthing

 

[anees1980]

Real face of a nation that claims to become a reagional leader by influencing other nations.

 

[Raaz]

WHo Reported ?

 

[KhanHaripur]

u can easily find whos posts are the most depressed,disgusted,baised,senseless comments & threads on this forum.
none other then the endians;)

 

[biomat]

An Unprecedented 1 in 66 Americans is a Diagnosed Psychotic

By wmw_admin on July 25, 2011
Robert Johnson – Business Insider via ICH July 20, 2011

Outselling even common drugs to treat high blood pressure and acid reflux, antipsychotic medications are the single top-selling prescription drug in the United States.

Once reserved for hard-core, One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest type of mental illnesses to treat hallucinations, delusions or major thought disorders; today, the drugs are handed out to unruly kids and absent minded elderly.

A recent story in Al Jazeera by James Ridgeway of Mother Jones illuminates the efforts by major pharmaceutical companies to get doctors prescribing medicines like Zyprexa, Seroquel, and Abilify to patients for whom the drugs were never intended.

Focusing on psychiatrists because they rely on subjective diagnoses, the drug reps have been so successful that they’ve changed the criteria for mental illness and disability payments. Ridgeway quotes former New England Journal of Medicine editor Marcia Angell.

“[T]he tally of those who are so disabled by mental disorders that they qualify for Supplemental Security Income (SSI) or Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) increased nearly two and a half times between 1987 and 2007 – from one in 184 Americans to one in seventy-six. For children, the rise is even more startling – a thirty-five-fold increase in the same two decades. Mental illness is now the leading cause of disability in children.” Under the tutelage of Big Pharma, we are “simply expanding the criteria for mental illness so that nearly everyone has one.” Fugh-Berman agrees: In the age of aggressive drug marketing, she says, “Psychiatric diagnoses have expanded to include many perfectly normal people.”

Particularly vulnerable because medication decisions are often out of their hands the old and the young suffer most.

For kids: the number diagnosed with bi-polar disorder rose 40-fold between 1994 and 2003 and one in five comes away from a psychiatrist with a prescription for an antipsychotic.

Dosing the elderly at nursing homes has become so common that sales reps have coined the term “five at five” — meaning 5 milligrams of Zyprexa at 5 pm to sedate difficult residents.

For all their nefarious wrangling, in 2009, Lily agreed to pay $1.4 billion, including a $515 million criminal fine. The largest ever in a health care case and the largest criminal fine on any corporation in the U.S.

That year, Lilly sold $1.8 billion of Zyprexa alone.

 

[Unicorn]

trying to hide ... somthing

No I went to world health organization site and did not find this data. The article in The Independent put the number at 120 million as depressed population world wide and if you take the population of China and 12 percent are depressed that alone accedes over 120 million so figure it out. Maybe Pakistani math will add up mine does not.

 

[Unicorn]

WHo Reported ?

No, the UK paper the Independent claims that the data came from world health organization and report published in BMC (Bio Medical Center) the same report states the estamated population of depressed people is 120 million world wide resulting in 850,000 deaths annually. Same article states that 12 percent of Chines population is depressed that alone is more than 120 Million world wide population.

Here is a part from the Independent:

People in wealthier countries were also more likely to be disabled by depression than those in poorer ones. The findings are published in BMC Medicine. Depression affects over 120 million people worldwide. It can interfere with a person's ability to work, make relationships difficult, and destroy quality of life. In severe cases it leads to suicide, causing 850,000 deaths a year.

 

[A.Ali.T]

Very strange, Pakistani newspaper picked the article from the Independent written by Jeremy Laurance who claims its from world health organization data. If you go to WHO web site there is no such data.

Don't get offended you should feel proud to be depressed, your depression has positive connotations.

 

[siddique]

No, the UK paper the Independent claims that the data came from world health organization and report published in BMC (Bio Medical Center) the same report states the estamated population of depressed people is 120 million world wide resulting in 850,000 deaths annually. Same article states that 12 percent of Chines population is depressed that alone is more than 120 Million world wide population.

Here is a part from the Independent:

People in wealthier countries were also more likely to be disabled by depression than those in poorer ones. The findings are published in BMC Medicine. Depression affects over 120 million people worldwide. It can interfere with a person's ability to work, make relationships difficult, and destroy quality of life. In severe cases it leads to suicide, causing 850,000 deaths a year.

dont commit suicide pllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllsssssssssssssssssssssss????lol

 

[Unicorn]

dont commit suicide pllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllsssssssssssssssssssssss????lol

I am suicidal tonight i am taking 100 pills of Prozac.:lol:

 

[Unicorn]

Don't get offended you should feel proud to be depressed, your depression has positive connotations.

Thanks buddy for picking me up I feel normal now.:lol:

 

[only_truths]

duplicate post

 

[only_truths]

The cause of depression is due to excessive chocolate eating by Western nations and India which has disposable income. To quote a group of North American investigators "discovered that who consumes chocolate regularly has more depressive trends. Although to admit that the chocolate can, to have effectively, the pto oder to improve the mood, believe that this can be a cause, more than what one cure, for the depression".

ps: Right now I have Summer depression and enjoying cans of beer to beat the depression. Cheers

 

[siddique]

The cause of depression is due to excessive chocolate eating by Western nations and India which has disposable income. To quote a group of North American investigators "discovered that who consumes chocolate regularly has more depressive trends. Although to admit that the chocolate can, to have effectively, the pto oder to improve the mood, believe that this can be a cause, more than what one cure, for the depression".

ps: Right now I have Summer depression and enjoying cans of beer to beat the depression. Cheers

what happend to c*****cola????????????????????lol

 

[littlemaster]

I am suicidal tonight i am taking 100 pills of Prozac.:lol:

goot for your obsessive compulsive disorder plus will cure your impotance which is due to inferiority complex/depression ;)