Friday Findings

We made it. It's Friday. 
Today on Friday Findings I want to talk about depression. I know it is a word we don't talk about, but it won't disappear because we ignore it. Below you will find the stats for American women and depression. The more I speak with youth, the more I realize that depression is one of the things the enemy is using to take people, especially gifted and talented, out.
Ladies, let's help each other fight through the cloud that can and is depression.
I have attached a webmd site that is full of great tips for fighting through depression as well.
As always...live Blessed

http://www.webmd.com/depression/default.htm

Prevalence

• Approximately 12 million women in the United States experience clinical depression each year.
• About one in every eight women can expect to develop clinical depression during their lifetime.
• Depression occurs most frequently in women aged 25 to 44.

Contributing Factors

• Many factors in women may contribute to depression, such as developmental, reproductive, hormonal, genetic and other biological differences (e.g. premenstrual syndrome, childbirth, infertility and menopause).
• Social factors may also lead to higher rates of clinical depression among women, including stress from work, family responsibilities, the roles and expectations of women and increased rates of sexual abuse and poverty.

Gender Differences

• Women experience depression at roughly twice the rate of men.[3]
• Girls 14-18 years of age have consistently higher rates of depression than boys in this age group.

PMS/PMDD

• Twenty to forty percent of women may experience premenstrual syndrome and an estimated 3 to 5 percent have symptoms severe enough to be classified as Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder (PMDD). 

Marriage/Childbirth

• Married people have a lower rate of depression than those living alone.  However, unhappily married people have the highest rates of depression; happily married men have the lowest rates.
• Approximately 10%-15% of all new mothers get postpartum depression, which most frequently occurs within the first year after the birth of a child.

Co-occurring Illnesses

• Research shows a strong relationship between eating disorders (anorexia and bulimia nervosa) and depression in women.  About 90-95% of cases of anorexia occur in young females.
• Reported rates of bulimia nervosa vary from one to three out of 100 people.
• Research shows that one out of three depressed people also suffers from some form of substance abuse or dependence.

Suicide

• Although men are more likely than women to die by suicide, women report attempting suicide approximately twice as often as men.
• An estimated 15 percent of people hospitalized for depression eventually take their own lives.