Who gets depression?
- Major depressive disorder affects approximately 14.8 million American adults, or about 6.7 percent of the U.S. population age 18 and older, in a given year.
- 20% of Canadians will personally experience a mental illness in their lifetime
- Mental illness indirectly affects all people at some time through a family member, friend or colleague
- Major depressive disorder is more prevalent in women than in men.
- While major depressive disorder can develop at any age, the median age at onset is 32
- As many as 1 in 33 children and 1 in 8 adolescents have clinical depression