Re: Anxiety and Depression…
** Don’t know why, but I look at problem of anxiety and depression with a little bit different perspective…**
An interesting article citing a controversial book…Our Age of Anxiety - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education
Beard claimed that American nervousness “is the product of American civilization,” and that this “distinguished malady” was seen most often among the cultural elite and the “brain-workers.” (Indeed, he had suffered from it as a student at Yale University.) Neurasthenia was strongly gendered, but it was an acceptable, even prestigious disease for male intellectuals, professionals, writers, and artists…]
“It has not escaped many observers that today we are drenched in anxiety,” says the medical historian Edward Shorter in his new book, How Everyone Became Depressed: The Rise and Fall of the Nervous Breakdown (Oxford University Press). “Depression has become a mass illness.” Shorter cites statistical evidence: “Within a given year, one in 10 Americans today will have a mood disorder, the great majority of them major depression.” The psychiatrist Jeffrey P. Kahn sees an even worse trend in his recent Angst: Origins of Anxiety and Depression (Oxford), with “the commonplace anxiety and depressive disorders” affecting at least 20 percent of Americans. That’s some 60 million people…]
What’s your perspective again?
this excerpt just talks about general statistics of depression in US. It is my understanding you’re concerned these statistics may roll over in Pakistan. Currently, you don’t think Pakistani population, if accurately assessed, would come pretty close to these statistics? 1 in 10?