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Has anyone ever explored the idea that depression is a western disease?

• CoachRufus87 14y ago
  It's a global disease, it just receives much, much more attention in the west (for example, all the antidepressant ads during prime-time television).
• dgabriel 14y ago
  It's really not, though most of the research seems to be on refugee populations: http://voices.yahoo.com/researchers-examine-ptsd-depression-african-3780854.html?cat=70 http://voices.yahoo.com/researchers-examine-ptsd-depression-...
• DenisM 14y ago
  Lab mice can get depressed as well - there is specific way by which it gets achieved, so it's not even a human-only problem.
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