Depression in students signs and symptoms treatment

Depression is increasingly being perceived as a global problem of rapidly increasing dimensions or as a modern-day ‘epidemic’. This perspective is widely articulated by the World Health Organization WHO and is clearly evident not only in popular media coverage of health issues and within depression-related ‘self-help literature and online resources but also in government-produced public health material. While the term ‘epidemic’ does not tend to be specifically used in clinical literature there is nonetheless a dominant view of dramatically increased depression prevalence within the sphere of psychiatry and psychology