Depression Affects 1 in 10 People
Doctor Abraham Zangen explains that clinical depression is extremely common, affecting one in ten people at some stage in their life.
It depends how you define the depression, but it has a probability of 8% in males and 12% in females through the lifetime, so it is very probable. One out of ten people will experience depression clinically in their life.
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