Nearly 30 percent of U.S. adults say they have been diagnosed with depression at some point in their lifetime, and 17.8 percent say they currently have or are being treated for depression, a Gallup poll found.
Rates of depression among women and young adults, as well as black and Hispanic adults, are rising fastest, the survey report states. Nearly 37 percent of women report having been diagnosed with depression at some point in their lifetime compared to 20.4 percent of men. Female depression rates have also risen “at nearly twice the rate of men since 2017,” according to Gallup.
The survey found that lifetime depression rates have also quickly increased among black and Hispanic adults and have surpassed those of white respondents. The pollster also observed that while clinical depression was on the rise prior to the coronavirus pandemic, rates have “jumped notably in its wake.”
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