• Before puberty, boys and girls are equally likely to develop depressive disorders, but after age 14, females are twice as likely as males to have major depression or dysthymia.
• Research has revealed that people with alcoholism are almost twice as likely as those without alcoholism to also suffer from major depression.
• More than half of people with bipolar disorder type I (with severe mania) have a co occurring substance use disorder.
• An NIMH funded clinical trial of 439 adolescents with major depression found that a combination of medication and psychotherapy is the most effective treatment.
• In the United States, researchers estimate that in any given one year period, depressive illnesses affect 12 percent of women (more than 12 million women) and nearly 7 percent of men (more than six million men).

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