Treatment of depression is cost-effective and cheap, with a huge dividend in well-being for the affected and their families. In terms of mental health interventions, if there is just one thing we can do, it should be to diagnose and treat depression. It leads to effects on whole families, children's health and wellbeing. It is the silent illness causing untold misery.
It spares neither the rich, nor the poor. Depression is universal, taking no account of class, religion, or ethnic group. We know that depression is one of the most disabling conditions in global health – currently the third most disabling condition globally and predicted to be the leading and most disabling condition throughout the world by 2030. We commemorate this day with stories of depression from over 30 countries around the world. This is the first time that there has been mental health theme on World Health Day since 2001.
As a mental health community we are proud to mark World Health Day, 7th April 2017, which this year has a theme of depression and suicide.
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