Depression

“Depression is a very bad thing. It’s like a virus… And before you know it, one day you’ll wake up …and you just can’t face it anymore.” H’s very poor recollection of dialogue from ‘Basil the Rat’ from the BBC series Fawlty Towers .

With depression escalating amongst the world’s population and its effects reaching people close to home (where the heart is) I thought it time to tackle this issue head on. Let’s refer again to our favourite soybean expert and Neways playboy Phillip Day.

On page 112 of the excellent resource, ‘The ABC’s of Disease’, PD cites the WHO’s Director General Dr. Gro Harlem in 2001, who states that, “Major depression is now the leading cause of disability globally.”

Suicide is the 3rd leading cause of death in males between the ages of 35 and 49.