Mental health can be just as important as physical health - and major depression is one of the most commonly diagnosed mental illnesses.
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Mental health can improve overall well-being and prevent other illnesses. And since mental health problems have a serious economic impact on vulnerable communities, making them a priority can save lives and markedly improve people's quality of life.
There is no health without mental health; mental health is too important to be left to the professionals alone, and mental health is everyone's business.
If you suffer from depression, anything that makes you feel has to the most important thing in your life, because it's the only thing that can save you.
People talk about physical fitness, but mental health is equally important. I see people suffering, and their families feel a sense of shame about it, which doesn't help. One needs support and understanding. I am now working on an initiative to create awareness about anxiety and depression and help people.
Depression is an illness and not a necessary part of healthy living.
I know how important good mental health care can be because I personally benefited from it.
It's my belief that, since the end of the Second World War, psychology has moved too far away from its original roots, which were to make the lives of all people more fulfilling and productive, and too much toward the important, but not all-important, area of curing mental illness.
Depression is a horrible, potentially life-threatening illness - but the lives it threatens are almost always those of the people who suffer from it.
In my mind, depression is, like all non-communicable diseases, a physiologically expressed condition which is profoundly influenced by our social and cultural environments. Depression is a global crisis not only because it is common and universal, but because the vast majority of affected people suffer in silence or receive inappropriate care.
Depression is a physical illness.