depression. They found that the proportion of U.S. adults who have had MDEs is actually closer to 30 percent of women and 17 percent of men after factoring in recall error.“Major depressive episodes are far more common than we thought,” said Tam. “Our model shows that the probability of someone having a first major depressive episode is especially high during adolescence.
We also know from other research that having a first major depressive episode increases the likelihood you’ll have a second one.
This means that anything we can do to prevent or treat episodes among young people could lead to larger health benefits over the course of their life.”A major depressive episode is defined as a period of two weeks or longer in which a person.
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