Mental health is not a destination, but a process. It’s about how you drive, not where you’re going.” – Noam Shpancer
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Mental health is a crucial part of our life and impacts our thoughts, behaviours and emotions. Being healthy emotionally can promote productivity and effectiveness in activities at work, school and home. It plays an essential part in maintaining healthy relationships, and allows us to adapt to changes in our life and cope with adversity.
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OVERVIEW
Data Source: Mental health Depression disorder Data dataset in vizzup by data.world
The dataset here provides country wise data for different mental disorders along with agewise categorization of depression over the time span of 28 years (1990-2017) for each country. This will provide a deeper insight into how many people world-wide suffer from these disorders and what measures can be taken in future to provide help.
The age wise analysis will provide us specific socio-economic landscapes and how people of different ages are getting affected by these disorders and how it might affect their life and the way they work. This data might also present with a conclusive analysis about the awareness and health care facilities present across the globe and whether talking about mental health is still a taboo in some places.
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Share of population with mental health disorders, World, 2017
Prevalence of Mental Health Disorders by Disorder Type
Anxiety Disorder is the highest recorded mental disorder which is consistent from 1990 to 2017. The reason can be increasing stress levels over the years from various factors relevant to the era.
World, 2017
Share of the total population with a given mental health or substance use disorder.
World, 1990
Share of the total population with a given mental health or substance use disorder.
Worldwide Distribution of Different Disorders
Share of the population with depression, 2017
Share of the population with anxiety disorder, 2017
Share of the population with bipolar disorder, 2017
Share of the population with eating disorder, 2017
Share of the population with schizophrenia, 2017
Depressive Disorder rates by age, World, 1990-2017
A keen analysis provided us with an insight that highly developed nations like Australia, USA, Canada and some parts of Europe presented a constant higher diagnosed cases. This can be attributed to the fast paced lifestyle. The quality of medical facilities in these countries are far more superior than other countries which makes the diagnosis easier. The awareness of population about mental health also plays a major role.
The analysis of depression age-wise over the years tells us that older population is constantly facing major depressive episodes in comparison to younger generation. This can be attributed to the fact that many old age people are living alone which takes a toll on their mental health. Some of them are abandoned by their kids and are staying in old age homes which makes them lonely and causes depression.
Decade Wise Analysis of Depressive Disorder by age
Depressive Disorders age-wise 1990-2000
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Depressive Disorders age-wise 2000-2010
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Depressive Disorders age-wise 2010-2017
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