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News

Antidepressants surpass antihypertensives as most commonly prescribed drugs in US

BMJ 2009; 339 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.b3380 (Published 19 August 2009) Cite this as: BMJ 2009;339:b3380

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Complex society and depression

WHO has estimated that by year 2010, 60 percent of world population
will be suffering from some type of depression. Main cause of depression is
"COMPLEX SOCIETY AND ITS PROBLEMS".

In today's society unemployment, work stress, unstable relationships, broken
marriages, poor family bonding, drug and alcohol problem are main cause of
growing depression.
No doubt, awareness of mental health in people has increased and people
are accepting treatment more openly but root problems are still there. So
we need to deal with complex problems of society to restrain growing
depression in the society.

As it is said--to kill the criminal we need to kill crime first.

Competing interests:
None declared

Competing interests: No competing interests

20 August 2009
Rani Pathania
sho ,Psychiatry
CAludon centre ,coventry