Depression

Depression has been a growing factor in the medical field. According to, http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/publications/the-numbers-count-mental-disorders-in-america/index.shtml#MajorDepressive, about 14.8 million adults are affected by major depression disorders in America alone, this alone comes to about 6.7 percent of American citizens age 18 and older annually. That is vast majority of individuals to go through depression. A lot of people when seeing commercials like the one above, immediately think they have depression because of the stated symptoms they refer to in the commercials, “do you feel down and sluggish, do you think…” etc. This should never be the way to diagnosis one self with depression. You would think it would be safe to take these drugs if you don’t have the disorder, but actually these drugs could take you down the wrong path. If the drug was not correct for your condition it could increase the case of depression and even lead to suicide. For this reason, the diagnosis of a disorder really has to be followed by the symptoms given in the infamous DSM-IV book, and under the care of a professional medical physician. Sure we all have our down days but true depression is a mental chemical imbalance of hormones in your body. So some of those diagnosed as depression cases may just be following what the commercials say and think they have depression, there is no true way of knowing.