A WHO study shows that the French are the most depressed in the world, just ahead of the Americans. Here is why.
The inhabitants of the richest countries on the planet are also the most depressed of the world. And among them, leaders of the category are ... the French! 21% of them admit to having gone through during their life a period of depression. This is what reveals an international study funded by the World Health Organization (WHO) and published on July 25 in the journal BMC Medicine.
The richest countries affected by depression
*More Than 89,000 people.
The research covers the period 2000-2005 and has been to use the data collected by representatives of WHO with 89,000 people in 18 countries worldwide. Among them, ten rich countries including the United States, Germany, France, and eight "poor" countries such as China, India or Mexico.
*Why the methodology.
Pollsters have held face to face with the respondents and they asked them standardized questions about symptoms of depression (sadness, sleep cycles) or their age, their income, their civil status or on their interest in daily activities. This was to check if there was correlation between income and depression. The team of Professor Jean-Pierre Lepine, a researcher for the INSERM and CNRS Lariboisière hospital participating in the study of this disease that affects the world 121 million people.
In the top five of the most depressed, we can find France with 21% of our countrymen who have experienced a period of disorder in their lives. Come behind us the United States (19.2% of depressed) and Brazil (18.4%), the Netherlands (17.9%) and NewZealand (17.8%). Germany and Japan are wealthy countries with less depressed and 9.9% respectively 6, 6% of those affected. Finally, it should be noted that poor countries are less affected by depression. Except for Brazil (18.4% depressed), the figures are below the 10% for South Africa, India, Mexico and China, the latter being the champion the world of the least depressed, with a rate of 6.5%.
* The wage gap.
It is in countries where there is a very important wage scale, thus allowing everyone to nourish hopes or frustrations on his career, the depressions are most numerous. In contrast, in countries with very low income per capita, this psychological reaction does not exist.
* "Good Life".
Professor Ronald Kessler of Harvard Medical School in Boston, told Bloomberg that correlation between wealth and depression: "The high rate of depression in rich countries may reflect differences in the perception of what constitutes" a good life ". In countries like the United States or France, the expectations of the population have no limit while people in other countries are content to have meat on the table. "
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* The Young depression.
Signs of depression in affluent countries appear very young, in individuals 25 to 26 years.
* More Than 850,000 deaths.
121 million people suffering from these mood disorders on the planet, and 850,000 of them die each year. Depression is considered by WHO as a real economic burden that has substantial financial consequences in the workplace but also on health systems.
Why the French Are most depressed?
* The pessimists in January.
This phenomenon of depression is a French tradition: a BVA poll, Gallup in January found that 61% of French people were pessimistic for 2011. These results were especially surprising, even shocking, that the French were found to be less optimistic than the people of war-torn countries like Afghanistan or Iraq!
* End of the welfare state.
Interviewed by Le Parisien, psychiatrist Serge Hefez explained that this French specialty to see "the glass half empty" is due in large part by "the culture of the welfare state", making it difficult to accept the challenge a privileged lifestyle. The daily La Tribune echoes this analysis by developing it: "With unemployment at 9.5% of the workforce in May 2011, an abysmal public debt (82.9% of GDP at end 2010) or the end of certain social benefits such as retirement at 60, not surprising that the French depressing. "
* The first consumer of psychotropic drugs.
France holds since 1998 a world record: the consumption of psychotropic drugs. In ten years, the number of pills was multiplied by two in France and one in five French consumed in 2008. Among the reasons cited by consumers, job stress and changes in lifestyle. That year, 15 professors of psychiatry in Psychology magazine had published an appeal for moderation, denouncing the prescriptions of antidepressants by general practitioners as "lifestyle medications".
* Reasons for betterment
There is reason to hope for our country. A study of Medicare published in March 2011, France would be dropped from first to third place in the world for the consumption of drugs, including antidepressants. It would even be the only country in Europe to reduce power consumption, and doctors following the recommendations of the Department of Health. This does not prevent 6 million French take, every day, these "happy pills".
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The inhabitants of the richest countries on the planet are also the most depressed of the world. And among them, leaders of the category are ... the French! 21% of them admit to having gone through during their life a period of depression. This is what reveals an international study funded by the World Health Organization (WHO) and published on July 25 in the journal BMC Medicine.
The richest countries affected by depression
*More Than 89,000 people.
The research covers the period 2000-2005 and has been to use the data collected by representatives of WHO with 89,000 people in 18 countries worldwide. Among them, ten rich countries including the United States, Germany, France, and eight "poor" countries such as China, India or Mexico.
*Why the methodology.
Pollsters have held face to face with the respondents and they asked them standardized questions about symptoms of depression (sadness, sleep cycles) or their age, their income, their civil status or on their interest in daily activities. This was to check if there was correlation between income and depression. The team of Professor Jean-Pierre Lepine, a researcher for the INSERM and CNRS Lariboisière hospital participating in the study of this disease that affects the world 121 million people.
In the top five of the most depressed, we can find France with 21% of our countrymen who have experienced a period of disorder in their lives. Come behind us the United States (19.2% of depressed) and Brazil (18.4%), the Netherlands (17.9%) and NewZealand (17.8%). Germany and Japan are wealthy countries with less depressed and 9.9% respectively 6, 6% of those affected. Finally, it should be noted that poor countries are less affected by depression. Except for Brazil (18.4% depressed), the figures are below the 10% for South Africa, India, Mexico and China, the latter being the champion the world of the least depressed, with a rate of 6.5%.
* The wage gap.
It is in countries where there is a very important wage scale, thus allowing everyone to nourish hopes or frustrations on his career, the depressions are most numerous. In contrast, in countries with very low income per capita, this psychological reaction does not exist.
* "Good Life".
Professor Ronald Kessler of Harvard Medical School in Boston, told Bloomberg that correlation between wealth and depression: "The high rate of depression in rich countries may reflect differences in the perception of what constitutes" a good life ". In countries like the United States or France, the expectations of the population have no limit while people in other countries are content to have meat on the table. "
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* November 25: Day against violence against women
* Front National: one that progresses far right in France.
* Armstrong: doping and between yellow jersey
* The Young depression.
Signs of depression in affluent countries appear very young, in individuals 25 to 26 years.
* More Than 850,000 deaths.
121 million people suffering from these mood disorders on the planet, and 850,000 of them die each year. Depression is considered by WHO as a real economic burden that has substantial financial consequences in the workplace but also on health systems.
Why the French Are most depressed?
* The pessimists in January.
This phenomenon of depression is a French tradition: a BVA poll, Gallup in January found that 61% of French people were pessimistic for 2011. These results were especially surprising, even shocking, that the French were found to be less optimistic than the people of war-torn countries like Afghanistan or Iraq!
* End of the welfare state.
Interviewed by Le Parisien, psychiatrist Serge Hefez explained that this French specialty to see "the glass half empty" is due in large part by "the culture of the welfare state", making it difficult to accept the challenge a privileged lifestyle. The daily La Tribune echoes this analysis by developing it: "With unemployment at 9.5% of the workforce in May 2011, an abysmal public debt (82.9% of GDP at end 2010) or the end of certain social benefits such as retirement at 60, not surprising that the French depressing. "
* The first consumer of psychotropic drugs.
France holds since 1998 a world record: the consumption of psychotropic drugs. In ten years, the number of pills was multiplied by two in France and one in five French consumed in 2008. Among the reasons cited by consumers, job stress and changes in lifestyle. That year, 15 professors of psychiatry in Psychology magazine had published an appeal for moderation, denouncing the prescriptions of antidepressants by general practitioners as "lifestyle medications".
* Reasons for betterment
There is reason to hope for our country. A study of Medicare published in March 2011, France would be dropped from first to third place in the world for the consumption of drugs, including antidepressants. It would even be the only country in Europe to reduce power consumption, and doctors following the recommendations of the Department of Health. This does not prevent 6 million French take, every day, these "happy pills".
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