Defeating Depression In America

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I think the U.S. needs to spend more time researching how to Defeat Depression. They also need to look into Health Care for the poor. It's almost a non-thing in this country.

Did you know that as many as 60,000,000 Americans may suffer from Depression and Depression related Illness. Think of how much that cost's You and all of America! Hundreds of Millions of dollars each year!

If 20% of America was HIV positive would you be scared? If 60,000,000 Americans had Cancer would you be worried? If 20% of our population had any other disease or medical condition America would take notice and demand something be done. Right?

So why does America ignore Depression and Mental Illness?

Why is there so much physical abuse in this country? Why are there so many men in jail for abusing their girlfriends? Why are there so many Adults in jail for Child abuse?

Do you think there are that many bad people out there? I mean there beating and abusing another human being they have to be bad right?

I don't think so I think it's Plain and Simple, Extreme Anger and Violent mood swings can be directly linked to Depression.

When children are submitted to a life of abuse growing up, how do they deal with it? A whole lot of ways and most are not good. They grow up with repressed feelings of anger and resentment. Self Esteem is low, if there is any at all. They feel like they don't matter and that no one cares or understands.

The Teen years are some of the most dangerous years of all. All the emotions of their early years of abuse and the coming of young adulthood and the hormonal changes that take place are the breeding ground for Severe and Life long Depression

Happy Humans do not feel the need to fog their world up with Drugs of any kind. They fog up their lives because they are empty inside and they are trying to remember what if feels like to have a soul. But it's just a fog of death a slow Decline of the Spirit a Blackening of the Soul and a Melt Down of the Mind.

This is not how I think it may be to feel this way, It Is the way I felt and Lived for more than 30 years with Depression. It is something that should scare the Hell out of every American! What I described is just the way I felt every one is different.

How do you think actor Owen Wilson was feeling the day he tried to take his life. Here is a man you would think is happy, right? Great actor, good looking guy has all the beautiful women he could want and money to burn. So what's the problem? He probably has no clue as to why he feels they way he does.

He just knows that no matter how he tried to keep the thoughts out of his head they would always come back. That is a terrible way to live and he probably just got tired of feeling that way day in and day out. Then the thoughts come and the come fast and furiously-

"it's no use anymore", "it would be so much easier to end it now", "it wouldn't hurt any more","they would all be better off with out me" and there's a thousand thousand different thoughts that can go through your head. None are good and they all arrive at the same Deadly Place "DEATH".

Think of all the people you know that have some kind of pain they live with daily like, back pains and strains, bad knees,arthritis, bad teeth,or any other type of pain you can think of.

. Do you have some kind of pain you live with? How does it make you feel when you get up in the morning or how does it affect your day or the way you interact with other people? How does it affect you in the long run? Do you feel like your at your whits end?

This is one way Depression gets ahold of you and it has such a very soft touch and it's not interested in your age, sex, color,race or anything but your Mind and your Soul.

We need to face this Killer and make it the goal of all Americans to Defeat Depression within the next 20 years! If you do nothing more than tell some one about Depression and what it's doing to our Country, You will be doing a Lot to help Educate and Knowledge is Power

I truly hope that your life is never touched by Depression and it's terrible effects ,but there are so many lives that are being destroyed every day PLEASE at least get the word out put up my web address on a bulletin board or put a little sign in your car window for just a month or even just a week would help.

When you go to your Dr.s appointment leave a few strips pf paper with the link to my site written on it laying around.

Educate your self about depression and you might find out it was a life saving decision.

Depression is more dangerous than any Terrorist, it's more deadly than the Avian Flu, it Kills more Americans every year than H.I.V. and Heart Disease together. If America continues to ignore this Killer, then we can look forward to a decline that will make Rome look like a Happy ending.

Defeating Depression in America Should be a Main concern of Us All. We all need to Understand the problem and understand that it costs the the U.S. Hundreds of Millions of Dollars Each year! If you don't understand the problem how can you fix it?
Reading and learning about depression is the first step to better Mental Health Care in the U.S.