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According to the Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance, around 17.3 million American adults suffer from major depressive disorder. Even children are suffering from depression, substance abuse, and anxiety as well.

It has been found that around 1.9 million children between the ages of 3 and 17 have been diagnosed with some form of depression.

To make matters worse, two out of three people who are suffering from depression do not receive the proper treatment they need.

Although treatment and care for depression are improving, there are still many people who suffer on a day-to-day basis.

To make matters even worse, depression is often associated with other illnesses. For example, patients with depression are 64% more likely to develop coronary artery disease.

Likewise, depression is commonly found in patients with cancer, HIV, Parkinson’s, and eating disorders. The relationship between depression and other serious illnesses shows just how serious depression can be and how it creeps into all many phases of life.

To make matters worse, depression can infiltrate one's life so much that it eventually leads to suicide. In fact, there are over 30,000 suicides in the United States every year, and depression is the culprit for two-thirds of these cases.

To put that in perspective, for every two homicides that happen in the United States, there are three suicides.