Over a lifetime, you will have a 20% chance of getting it. If you are a woman, you are twice as likely to get it as a man. Within the next 15 years, it is expected to be the second largest cause of premature death and disability worldwide. Depression: the world's fastest growing mental illness.
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Erick Fabris is an ex-psychiatric inmate and MA graduate of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto. He is a member of the Queen Street Outreach Society. In 1999, he co-founded Ontario's No Force Coalition.
David Goldbloom is senior medical advisor, Education and Public Affairs at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health.
Gary Greenberg is a psychotherapist in private practice in New London, Connecticut, and a freelance journalist. His stories on science, medicine and politics have appeared in Harper's, The New Yorker, and Mother Jones, among other magazines.
Peter Kramer is the author of Eminent Lives volume, Freud: Inventor of the Modern Mind, Against Depression, Should You Leave?, and the international best-seller Listening to Prozac. Visit peterdkramer.com.
Jodi Lofchy is the director of Psychiatry Emergency Services at the University Health Network in Toronto. As well, she is the director of Undergraduate Education for the Department of Psychiatry and associate professor at the University of Toronto.
Brenda Smith practices family medicine in Courtice, Ont. She has also spent seven years practising rural medicine in Campbellford, Ont.
