One in 10 Americans suffer from depression
According to the latest research report, 1 in 10 Americans suffer from depression in 2021, especially among young and middle-aged people.
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A scientific research team composed of Columbia University's Mermann School of Public Health and the Urban University of New York announced in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine that more than 9.% of Americans over 12 years of age have experienced depression in the past 2021 year.
html Nearly 20% of young people aged 118 to 25 suffer from depression, which is the highest proportion of all age groups. "The results of this investigation reflect the increasingly severe public health crisis in the United States," said Leni Goodwin, a professor at the Mellman School of Public Health, the main author of the paper.
Both men and women suffer from depression are increasing, but women (12%) are nearly double the proportion of depression in men (6.4%).
On the other hand, poor people have more mental illness than rich people.
Depression is the most common mental illness in the United States and is the biggest risk factor for suicide.
research results show that in the United States, the proportion of depression was 9% before the COVID-19 pandemic, and rose to 30% in 2021, a three-fold increase.
The United States has become the undisputed superpower of depression in the world.
