You might be thinking, “Wait a second, this article is going to teach me how TO BE DEPRESSED? Why would I want to be depressed?”
Well, you have to understand that depression is very hot these days. In fact, Americans are so depressed that we use more antidepressants than any other nation on the planet!
In fact, the number of depressed Americans has almost DOUBLED since 2010, and almost 20% of Americans are now depressed:
If depression keeps increasing at this same pace, a majority of Americans will be depressed by 2066, and it’s always great to get in on a big trend early, right?
So, the first thing we need to address is the idea that depression is genetic and there’s nothing you can do about it. Certainly, a small percentage of people like that exist, but in 2005, roughly 6.6% of Americans had a major depressive episode in a year, according to the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH). Then, as we see above, in 2015, 10.5% of Americans had been treated for depression or were dep…
