• Substantial evidence from neuroscience, genetics, and clinical investigation shows that depressive illnesses are disorders of the brain.
• Over 70 percent of older suicide victims visit their primary care physician within the month of their death; many have a depressive illness that goes undetected during these visits.
• Researchers estimate that at least six million men in the United States suffer from a depressive disorder every year.
• Research has revealed that people with alcoholism are almost twice as likely as those without alcoholism to also suffer from major depression.
• Genetics research indicates that risk for depression results from the influence of multiple genes acting together with environmental or other nongenetic factors.

MyLastSigh posted a photo:

I woke up twice in the middle of the night; at 2 and at 4. My chest felt constricted, as if there was a towel inside me being twisted and twisted tight. My heart is fine. It seems I had an anxiety attack. But it was rather frightening.