Economic Stress and Depression

From Bloomberg.com:

Economic recessions typically lead to increased suicides and hospital admissions for psychiatric care, usually within one year of the start of the decline, says Harvey Brenner, a professor in the School of Public Health at the University of North Texas Health Science Center in Fort Worth.

``We've really not had such a combination of loss of jobs, income and housing in some time,'' said Brenner, who has studied the relationship between recessions and mental health for more than 30 years, most of it at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. ``We'd have to go back to the Great Depression'' to find a time when so many negative trends coincided.