Manage Depression
Daily Meditation Podcast
Mary Meckley
4.1 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 8 March 2020
⏱️ 19 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is episode 1,746. |
| 0:05.0 | Welcome to the Daily Meditation Podcast. |
| 0:10.0 | I'm Mary Meckley and I honor you for giving your self permission to slow down and connect to the best part of who you are. In today's episode we launch into a brand new meditation series. We'll explore all week long and our theme for this week's series |
| 0:38.7 | will guide you through how to manage your deepest, darkest moments in life. |
| 0:48.0 | And I'm talking all about depression. |
| 0:52.0 | A major depression. all about depression, a major depressive episode. And a major depressive episode is more common than you might think. In fact, it's estimated that most everyone has |
| 1:09.9 | a major depressive episode caused by a medical illness a bereavement or even |
| 1:17.2 | substance use disorders or any other reason why you might feel hopeless about your life and two weeks or |
| 1:30.8 | longer of feeling in a depressed mood or having a loss of interest in pleasure |
| 1:39.8 | is considered to be a major depressive episode and research shows that in the United |
| 1:48.9 | States where I live it's estimated that more than 16 million adults between the ages of 18 or older had at least one major depressive episode. |
| 2:09.0 | That represents over 6% of all US adults and it's very similar in many other countries. |
| 2:21.9 | And the prevalence of a major depressive episode is actually higher for females as compared to males. |
| 2:30.0 | As compared to males, for females, it's 8.5% who are experiencing major depressive |
| 2:38.4 | episodes compared with males where the research shows the percentages 4.8%. |
| 2:49.8 | And the age where a major depressive episode is highest is between the ages of young adults who are 18 to 25 years old. A major depressive episode is usually paired with another mental disorder or mental challenge and that most commonly is anxiety. |
| 3:25.0 | So most people who are experiencing a major depressive episode are also experiencing anxiety or another mental disorder. |
| 3:37.0 | So you may be able to relate to depression. Whether it's a situational depressive episode or a chronic bout of depression. There are ways to help you manage your depression and to help prevent it and that is what this week's |
| 4:07.8 | series is all about. So it's a very important series because in this series whether you experience depression or not as the research shows |
| 4:19.6 | Most everyone experiences depression at some time in their lives. |
| 4:26.9 | So this is for you to prepare for managing a depressive episode or even chronic depression, |
| 4:35.0 | as well as how to help those friends and loved ones |
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