Time for united action on depression: a Lancet–World Psychiatric Association Commission

H Herrman, V Patel, C Kieling, M Berk, C Buchweitz… - The Lancet, 2022 - thelancet.com
Executive summary “Depression is a disorder of mood, so mysteriously painful and elusive
in the way it becomes known to the self—to the mediating intellect—as to verge close to …

[HTML][HTML] More treatment but no less depression: The treatment-prevalence paradox

J Ormel, SD Hollon, RC Kessler, P Cuijpers… - Clinical psychology …, 2022 - Elsevier
Treatments for depression have improved, and their availability has markedly increased
since the 1980s. Mysteriously the general population prevalence of depression has not …

Global trends in the prevalence and incidence of depression: a systematic review and meta-analysis

D Moreno-Agostino, YT Wu, C Daskalopoulou… - Journal of affective …, 2021 - Elsevier
Background There is mixed evidence regarding the change in the prevalence of depression
in the general population over time. This study aimed to synthesise the evidence on studies …

Recent increases in depressive symptoms among US adolescents: trends from 1991 to 2018

KM Keyes, D Gary, PM O'Malley, A Hamilton… - Social psychiatry and …, 2019 - Springer
Background Mental health problems and mental health related mortality have increased
among adolescents, particularly girls. These trends have implications for etiology and …

Depression and mortality in a longitudinal study: 1952–2011

SE Gilman, E Sucha, M Kingsbury, NJ Horton… - Cmaj, 2017 - Can Med Assoc
BACKGROUND: Many studies have shown that depression increases mortality risk. We
aimed to investigate the duration of time over which depression is associated with increased …

Challenging the myth of an “epidemic” of common mental disorders: trends in the global prevalence of anxiety and depression between 1990 and 2010

AJ Baxter, KM Scott, AJ Ferrari… - Depression and …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Background Anxiety disorders and major depressive disorder (MDD) are common and
disabling mental disorders. This paper aims to test the hypothesis that common mental …

Depression as a disease of modernity: explanations for increasing prevalence

BH Hidaka - Journal of affective disorders, 2012 - Elsevier
There has been much speculation about modern environments causing an epidemic of
depression. This review aims to (1) determine whether depression rates have increased and …

[图书][B] The globalization of addiction: A study in poverty of the spirit

B Alexander - 2010 - books.google.com
'The Globalization of Addiction'presents a radical rethink about the nature of addiction.
Scientific medicine has failed when it comes to addiction. There are no reliable methods to …

Is well-being U-shaped over the life cycle?

DG Blanchflower, AJ Oswald - Social science & medicine, 2008 - Elsevier
We present evidence that psychological well-being is U-shaped through life. A difficulty with
research on this issue is that there are likely to be omitted cohort effects (earlier generations …

[图书][B] The loss of sadness: How psychiatry transformed normal sorrow into depressive disorder

AV Horwitz, JC Wakefield - 2007 - books.google.com
Depression has become the single most commonly treated mental disorder, amid claims that
one out of ten Americans suffer from this disorder every year and 25% succumb at some …