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There is a worldwide epidemic that is not only affecting our physical body, but our psychological state as well. Just like the human body can get physically sick, the chances of being mentally ill have never been higher. Mental illness is any disease of how the mind works. It is the psychological state of when a person has emotional or behavioral problems that are serious enough to require medical treatment. Clinical depression is of the most common of mental illnesses around the world. When compared worldwide; the rates of depression are higher in developed countries compared to developing countries. Depression is more prominent in developed nations due to income inequality, affluence of society, and level of awareness. Structural functionalism explains the proximate determinant of the increase prevalence of depression in developed countries. Clinical depression is one of the most common mental illnesses around the world. Clinical depression is a mood disorder in which the person can experience extreme feeling of sadness, loss, anger, or frustration that can help barricade the function of dealing with everyday life. This feeling is for a long period of time. There are many different types of depression like chronic depression, seasonal depression, major depressive disorder and postpartum depression. This disease does not discriminate. It attacks males, females, the young, the old, the wealthy, the poor and everything in between. However, statistics show that there is a higher depression rate in the developed world compared to the developing. Researchers from the State University of Stony Brook, who partnered with WHO's World Mental Health, surveyed 90,000 people in 18 countries in a worldwide mental health questionnaire. The res... ... middle of paper ... ...da, 2007. "Mental health care for children and adolescents worldwide: a review." World Psychiatry . http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1414760/. Turgeon, Jordan. "Depression Around The World: How Do Countries Stack Up?." The Huffington Post. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/27/depressed-ccountries_n_910345.html#s316418title=France_21 (accessed May 14, 2014). "Suicide rate up 30% in two years." BBC News. http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-21145652. "Unhappiness by the Numbers: 2012 Depression Statistics." Informatic. http://www.healthline.com/health/depression/statistics-infographic. World Health Organization. Caring for children and adolescents with mental disorders. Geneva: World Health Organization; 2003 Shape MENTAL ILLNESS ESSAY Shape Rabina Jahan HSB 4U1-21 : Society Challenge and Change ShapeMay 15, 2014

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