Depressed

Depression is one of the world's most common diseases.  Depressive disorders affect an estimated 9.5 percent of adult Americans in a given year, or about 20.9 million people.  Each year, major depressive disorder affects approximately 14.8 million American adults, or about 6.7 percent of the U.S population age 18 and older. It is also the leading cause of disability in the U.S for ages 15 to 44 and is more prevalent in women than in men. 

 

There is no single cause for depression. Some types of depression run in families, suggesting that a biological vulnerability can be inherited. Often, a combination of genetic, psychological, and environmental factors is involved in the onset of a depressive disorder. The main types of depression include major depression, dysthymia, adjustment disorder, bipolar disorder, and seasonal affective disorder (SAD).

 

Why are you downcast, O my soul?  Why so disturbed within me?  Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God.    Psalm 42:5

 

..We should enter many hardships to enter the kingdom of God.    Acts 14;22