Monday, September 10

Monday morning blues .. much more

How about this headline I read this morning:

No individual chronic disease- not angina, arthritis, asthma or diabetes, is more disabling than depression .. that from the World Health Organization.

The WHO surveyed 245,404 patients in 60 countries, over age 18. They also found, if you combine depression with another chronic disease, respondents had the worse scores on a health survey.

The take away on this .. depression needs more attention, more treatment and needs to be better managed in patients with other chronic ailments. Depression is not just a bad day - it's a disease that's both disabling and can be deadly.

to read more about this study check out the current issue of LANCET.
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Anonymous said...

AND i think depression is stigmatizing in a way that other disease is not - so on top of everything else, you can't get the same kind of empathy, or a day off, or have a bad day without whispering and egg-shell treatment
which makes it WORSE

September 10, 2007 11:54 AM

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