You may or may not know that the most quoted statistic for the number of people who have Depression is one in five in their lifetime. But how correct is this?  Are a lot more people affected by depression but keeping it to themselves?  A recent poll by Turning Point put the number at 3 [...]

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The Information  and Services division of the NHS have revealed that one in ten adults are now taking medication every day to combat Depression.
Since 1999-09 the number of drugs being prescribed by GPs in Scotland has increased from 2.5 million to 4 million items. This is despite an SNP manifesto to cut the use of antidepressant drugs [...]

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NHS Lothian has released figures which show that 77,000 people over the age of 18 were diagnosed with Depression last year.  This is compared to 68,000 from the previous year.
Politicians and health experts are warning that the problem will only get worse as unemployment levels grow and peoples’ financial situations worsen.

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YouthHealthTalk is part of a national charity that produces the award-winning website www.dipex.org. They told us:
On our young people’s site www.YouthHealthTalk.org you can watch, listen to or read interviews with young people about their experiences of health, illness and lifestyles and find reliable information about different health conditions and links to other websites, support groups, [...]

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A new study has found that rates of depression, which were thought to be increasing, are actually decreasing in Australia.  Several studies have also predicted that the global burden of depression will increase rapidly in the future so it is good news that in one country rates are declining.  Whether we will see the same in [...]

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The number of prescriptions for antidepressants rose four-fold in Scotland between 1992 and 2006 despite government efforts to cut the number of prescriptions. 
 A report by NHS Quality Improvement Scotland (QIS) found that the number of prescribed daily doses of the drugs had gone up from 19 per thousand to 85 between 1992 and 2006.
Mental health charities [...]

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The Army has fewer than half of the psychiatrists it needs to cope with psychiatric casualties from Iraq and Afghanistan, the Herald newspaper found. The Ministry of Defence admits that 2,123 troops have been treated for various mental health conditions related to their service since 2003, including 320 for full post-traumatic stress disorder. Combat Stress, [...]

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A major study analysing data from 1989 to 2004 has revealed that the suicide rate in men has increased by 22 per cent, while in women it is up 6 per cent. The rates of suicide in Scotland are the highest in the UK, almost double those in England. However, it is important to note [...]

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The GoWell survey tracking the lives of more than 6000 people in Glasgow living in 14 deprived areas of the city over 10 years has released its first findings which show that across the study, 22% of those interviewed had seen their doctor about anxiety, depression and stress in the past year. This rose to [...]

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