RE: How do you deal with depression when you're out of touch with your emotions?
July 18, 2020 at 11:03 pm
(July 18, 2020 at 10:51 pm)brewer Wrote:(July 18, 2020 at 10:40 pm)masoni Wrote: i don't know. its such a complex situation to study, that im not sure if we could ever find a single answer. more likely there are multiple factors.
^^^ This. Health care access, health care training, self reporting, medical reporting, diagnosis criteria, single event vs last 12 months vs lifetime, xx vs xy, dual diagnosis, exogenous vs endogenous, war, famine, mortality rate, ........
I'm not confident that you can tie rate of depression to the single factor of wealth.
richer countries have the means to recognize, diagnose, and treat it. someone without access to the medical care necessary wouldn't be considered to have it and would have to live with the way it affected their life.