Staggering Statistics

• 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.
  
  
• Everyone, will at some time in their life be affected by depression – their own or someone else's.
  
  
• 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%.
  
  
• 80% of depressed people are not currently having any treatment.
  
  
• 15% of depressed people will commit suicide.
  
  
• Depression will be the second largest killer after heart disease by 2020
  
  
• Depression results in more absenteeism than almost any other physical disorder and costs employers more than US$51 billion per year in absenteeism.