‘Chronic emotional depression afflicts nearly 10 percent of all adults in the United States — nearly 20 million people nationally and 170,000 in the Pittsburgh region alone.

This largely silent epidemic means that one out of every 10 of your neighbors has trouble getting out of bed each day, can’t sleep through the night, chronically misses work, has a dulled appetite or sex drive, and can’t enjoy the reading or TV or children or friends or yard work or shopping that once gave life such pleasure.’

Read more at Pitt expert talks up new approach to depression

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