Depression: One Of The Cost Of Mental Depression

Every time someone mentions mental illness, many things come to their mind. One of the many mental illnesses known worldwide and one of the most common is mental depression; although it is common not many people know much about it, besides the superficial information. Depression is one of the oldest mental illnesses, dating back to ancient Greece (Fava, M., & Kendler, K.S.) Depression is more than just being upset; it is a major illness everyone should know more about. It has many names such as Depression, Major Depressive Disorder, Clinical Depression, Chronic Depression, etc., that sound similar; because of the different names people assume there are different. There are different types of depression, but they all fall under the same criteria.

Medication like drugs may cost from $30 to $200 monthly depending on which prescription (Cost of medication.) On top of that you have to add the hours of therapy that one may need. At first it is requested that you visit the therapist at least two hours three days a week at a cost of $50-$240 an hour. This may change depending on the people and how they are doing, either way it costs the individual a lot of money. “Untreated mental illnesses in the U.S cost more than $100 billion a year… schools have to open more special education classes” because we do not treat depression schools and other public services have to open more programs to help them out (The Neglect of Mental Illness Exacts a Huge Toll, Human and Economic.) In America about 90 percent of crime of people can be related to a mental illness and this adds to the total cost because they have to be sent to a special institute and the court takes longer to process. Another study shows that the annual cost of depression is about $44 billion and almost 11 million of people are affected by a mental illness including depression (Greenberg, P. E et.al.) Another cost is those for personal care patients. Those who are severely depressed may have a personal care administrator and it costs an average of $2,390;in contrast people who had personal care and were not depressed it only causes them $1,397 (Health care cost associated with depressive and anxiety disorders in primary care.) Adding all of these numbers proves depression has a huge cost overall. Looking at an interpersonal view you see that it does cost someone a lot mentally, physically and