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SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS AND CULTURAL FACTORS TO DEPRESSION

The socio and cultural aspects of any one community can offer limitless combinations of situations which may lead an individual down the path of depression; considering the sheer diversity of the American population, a complete study of the presence and causes of differences in the prevalence of depression may actually be never achieved.

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SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS AND CULTURAL FACTORS TO DEPRESSION The socioeconomic and cultural factors can put a certain segment of the population at a relatively higher risk of developing a mental condition than others. For example, from the above study, farina Americans and Mexican Americans were found to carry a higher risk of chronic dysphoria precipitated by poverty and lack of education. Even within a relatively homogenous cultural or ethnic group, certain individuals have been shown to be at a higher ...
... certain recreational drugs have been shown to precipitate depression in a mechanism similar to that seen in alcohol abuse. The major depressive episodes in this case can occur during the period of use or that of withdrawal; for example during drug rehabilitation therapy.

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