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Essay / Depression: One of the Costs of Mental Depression therapy that may be needed. . Initially, it is required that you visit the therapist for at least two hours three days a week at a cost of $50 to $240 per hour. This can change depending on the people and how they are doing, either way it costs the individual a lot of money. “Untreated mental illness in the United States costs more than $100 billion a year…schools need to open more special education classes” because we are not treating depression. Schools and other public services need to open more programs to help them. (The Neglect of Mental Illness This takes a huge toll, both human and economic.) In the United States, about 90 percent of crimes committed by people can be linked to to mental illness, which adds to the total cost because they have to be sent to a special institute and the court takes longer to process. . Another study shows that the annual cost of depression is approximately $44 billion and nearly 11 million people are affected by mental illness, including depression (Greenberg, P. E et.al.). Another cost is patient personal care. Those who are severely depressed can have a personal care administrator and it costs an average of $2,390; In contrast, for people who received self-care and were not depressed, it only cost them $1,397 (health care costs associated with depressive and anxiety disorders in primary care.) Adding it all up These figures prove that depression has a huge cost overall. Looking from an interpersonal perspective, you see that it takes a toll on someone mentally, physically and
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