Quote ="Ferocious Aardvark"I think it is over-diagnosed and self-diagnosed and perpetuated in the West, and under diagnosed and/or ignored in the developing so-called Third World.
Almost all studies are based on Western countries and so far as I know the problem in other places would be that most cases would never even see a health professional much less be diagnosed, but I don't see any reason why actual depression, as a clinical illness, should occur any more or any less in any group of humans.'"
However, it may be that some forms of mental ill-health are [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Running_amokculture-specific[/url, or at least more prevalent in certain cultures. Without the research, it's difficult to say whether this would also be true of depression.
