Major depressive disorder

A private doctor recommended that the German pilot who crashed a Germanwings jet into the Alps last year should be treated in a psychiatric hospital two weeks before the disaster, French investigators said March 13.

Researchers found that people who join religious organizations have better mental health than those who don’t. In fact, a four-year study by the Erasmus University Medical Center in the Netherlands monitored 9,000 people aged over 50 across Europe found that a session at church was more beneficial than taking part in sport or charity work.

The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation in Seattle carried out a survey of the world’s disease burden in 2013. These have just been published in the Lancet medical journal. Here is what most people suffer from. In Greece, like most of the world it’s lower back pain, though depression seems to be gaining ground.

Over 450 people committed suicide in 2014 in Bosnia and Herzegovina, with depression and post-traumatic stress disorder linked to the 1990s conflict cited as some of the causes.

An Athens prosecutor ordered the arrest of two doctors on negligence charges on Friday, in connection with the alleged suicide of a 44-year-old homeless man who fell to his death from the fourth floor of a city center hotel leased by the City of Athens to serve as a homeless shelter.

I’ve come to talk with you again… When Simon and Garfunkel wrote this song, I guess depression was not so common.

It is a general principle in the media, suicide stories are underestimated so that these stories do not look encouraging.

Hollywood actor Robin Williams, found dead this week after an apparent suicide, was suffering from depression and the early stages of Parkinson's disease, his wife said Thursday.
      
The beloved comedian's personal assistant found Williams hanging from his belt in a bedroom of his California home on Monday, sparking speculation about his long public battle with addiction.