[分享] 抑郁症是社会问题吗？

Depression results from a complex interaction of social, psychological, and biological factors. People who have gone through adverse life events (unemployment, bereavement, traumatic events) are more likely to develop depression. Depression can, in turn, lead to more stress and dysfunction and worsen the affected person’s life situation and the depression itself.

Mental health is produced socially: the presence or absence of mental health is above all a social indicator and therefore requires social, as well as if individual, solutions.

由过去人类环境与现代生活之间的进化不匹配引起的慢性疾病负担日益加重，这可能是抑郁症发病率上升的核心。社会资本的下降以及更大的不平等和孤独感是导致抑郁的社会环境的候选中介。现代人口越来越多地被过度喂养、营养不良、久坐不动、缺乏阳光、睡眠不足和社会孤立。这些生活方式的改变都会导致身体健康状况不佳，并影响抑郁症的发病率和治疗。