Depression: breakthroughs in Individual Therapy
- A major depressive disorder is a serious medical illness affecting an estimated 18 million American adults.
- CDC estimates that 8.1 percent of American adults ages 20 and over had depression in any given 2-week period from 2013 to 2016.
- One in eight middle-aged women in the United States has depression, a new report finds.
- This means that women ages 40 to 59 have the highest rate of depression (12.3 percent) of any group based on age and gender in the U.S., according to the report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
- Among Americans ages 12 and older, 9.5 percent of females and 5.6 percent of males had moderate or severe depression
- Abuse. Past physical, sexual, or emotional abuse can cause depression later in life.
- The focus of Individual Therapy efforts center on areas of individuals’ lives that they have a concern. These areas commonly involve conditions that are causing a great deal of distress in the individual’s life. Individual therapy has proven fundamental in treating depression.
