Single women are caught in depression

Numbers and the facts - the world organization of public health (WHO - "WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION") compares depression with the epidemic, which enveloped all of mankind. They were declared at 51 session of WHO ("WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION"): depression already did leave in the first place in the world among the reasons for failure to appear to the work, the second among the diseases, which lead to the loss of ability to work. If it will not be accepted corresponding measures, then to 2020 years depression it is sultry the economic life both of the developed and developing countries. - in 1997 of 146 million people in the world and most of them are single women, were deprived of ability to work because of the depressions. Only to economy of the USA it will be brought yearly damage into 53 billion dollars this sum includes the cost/value of 290 million lost workdays, psychotherapeutic aids and reductions in the ability to work.

About to the predictions of WHO ("WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION"), to 2020 years the depression will leave in the first place among the diseases in the world, after passing today's leaders - infectious and cardiovascular diseases. Already today it is the most widespread disease, which the single women suffer. According to the data of American psychiatric association by depression suffers 15 ml people. Other studies evaluate the prevalence of depressive disorders much higher - more than 26% among the women and 12% among the men.

According to some estimations - a quantity of the patients with depression in Russia increases by 3-5% yearly. Today to four fifth populations of Russia withstood the depressions of different gravity. - according to the conducted into the USA investigations, the subjected to depressive states psyches people have two times of more than chances to perish from other illnesses.

Single women fall ill with depression two times more frequently, than man (8-12% against 20-26% respectively). Most likely, the matter not in the "immunity" of strong half of humanity before the depression, but in the fact that the men are much less frequent, than women turn for medical help, preferring to suppress her symptoms by alcohol, to take medicinal preparations, to depart to the work and this the like confirm the studies, which were being carried out among some religious concessions. For protestant concession, whose religion forbids the use of alcohol and medicinal preparations, depression they are encountered to the equal degree both in the men and in women.

Depression is more frequently it is developed among the members of the family of depressive patients. Approximately 20% of relatives of patients are subjected to depression, while the relatives of the healthy persons they fall ill in 7% of the cases - the risk of the development of depression among the lonely and separated persons is 2-4 times higher than among the family. In this case the separated and lonely men risk more than the separated and single women.

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