PSYC 350 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Cortisol, Immunosuppression, Venlafaxine
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Depression and suicide: costs of depression, billion per year in medical expenses, lost productivity. There has been a 400% increase in antidepressant medications. After 3 episodes of depression, there is over a 90% risk of relapse: risk increases with major loss events. Moving away from your entire support network. Getting very ill: social support buffers against loss/failure risk. If you have a support group when something bad occurs in your life you have a 3 times lower risk of depression. 2: link between depression and suicide, 300,000 depression-linked suicide attempts per year treated in er, 45,000 suicides in 2016. Out of consideration for the family they will say it is an accident. 3 s s e n l l e. On the graph it is the time between 6-8. At that point, the energy is back and acting on the suicidal thoughts are more likely to be carried out.
