It is a good thing this is being brought to light. Many people are suffering and struggling...people need help and resources available to help them.

If PUBLIC COUNCELING RESOURCES were made available, it would not only cut down on the number of depressed people, it would also reduce the number of people in prision, domestic abuse, divorces, and so many other social challenges.

I do not accept the notion that 'resources are not available'. RESOURCES ARE AVAIABLE..WE AND OUR GOVERNMENT JUST NEED TO GET PRIORITIES STRAIGHT.

How about putting AMERICANS FIRST instead of spending BILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN WAR EFFORTS IN OTHER COUNTRIES AND INTERFERING WHERE WE DON'T BELONG.

So much of our hard earned money is going towards war efforts...and instead took care of taking care of our people here.. we would be much better off.

A little love goes a long way.

Pharmaceutical drugs are not the answer for depressed people. It is only away of hiding the real problem. Why should people donate money to this quackery! Drugs are a cover-up! A way to make the medical world wealthy. Its all controlled. Are you guys blind or what? Why take a pill that will damage and destroy your liver or cause other health risks. You guys better do some research and do some reading and find out for yourselves. I could go on, but will leave you this thought to research.

A study already concluded that active mormons are at no greater risk of depression and suicide than residents of other states. It is non-mormons and inactive mormons who are at the greatest risk of depression and suicide. American Journal of Epidemiology 2002;155:413-419.

Perhaps there are environmental, chemical, pollution, genetic or other factors that should be studied. If being a church attending mormon offers a protective effect against suicide and depression than society and religion are not the primary cause unless failure to be a church attending mormon in a majority mormon state is in fact the problem itself.

The non-members or inactive people in Utah are those who are most ostracized and perhaps the ones who are willing to admit that they need help. In the LDS church, your encouraged not to seek medical help for depression but that it all can be healed through the "lord." Persons who are active are likely to hide that they need help for fear that others will look down upon them. Why? Because if you need help for being depressed and you should be able to get help from the lord, then you must be doing something wrong (sinning). The culture is the LDS church and the culture puts incredibly high expectations on each other. Its bizarre. Try living here and you will understand. If you talk to a active mormon, they will tell you what is "socially desirable"/AKA that everything is fine!

I am a practicing member of the LDS faith. And I agree that there definitely needs to be something done about the culture here. There is a certain pressure to live a certain way and to make sure that everyone else is doing it. I couldn't believe a neighbor of mine telling me who I should or shouldn't play with when I was a kid. It's like everyone is so worried that they are missing out on enjoying the moment that they want to make sure everyone is in their same boat. Sometimes people need to go through experiences to learn from them. I moved to California for 5 years to get away from it all. I loved California... but California had it's problems too. Wherever there is a positive trait in a person or a society it will be backed by an equally negative one. Utah has a high moral code... and because of that some people simply will not be able to cope with it. Does that mean we change the moral code of Utah? NO!!! Just because Hollywood has a problem with narcissism does that mean we should stop everyone from becoming an actor?

Can anyone say the cause of the Depression: Mind you the highest in the Nation and most of this entire country, is the LDS Church... I've grown up LDS my entire life and have been, nothing but abused verbally by it, my entire life among many other friends, and "why" do many classify it as a "CULT" and not me... OTHERS HAVE... Also, I'm judged everyday, have been in treatment several times, I never, "NEVER" had a problem with "DEPRESSION" until my selfish FATHER who's parent's mind you were not active at all moved back here during my mid junior year in high school... The most unfriendly and unkind state and schools, and people I've ever known (judgemental, gossipers, hateful people live here regardless of the weather as I moved from Oregon and look up their weather or the state of Washington's as my best friend lives there)... This STATE of UTAH is the BANE of DEPRESSION and the RELIGION is the cause of it... I bet you'll erase this comment for "WHAT" (TRUTH and that your SCARED I'm RIGHT as well as MILLIONS HERE) and we have a right to these comments...

mormons appease women, they do not suppress them.

mormon women are the largest group of blessed people to have such levels of ingratitude.

they run around yelling about not getting flowers or romance.

mormon divorce is at 50%, 75% of those are by the women. is it any wonder as america slides into values of hell that bad men don't want to marry and good men are betrayed by their wives?

women in mormon church have more autonomy than their mothers, grandmother, etc. men in mormon church do more housework than their fathers.

mormon culture bashes men and puts wives on pedestals. its beat into their heads, men are inconsiderate bafoons, and their wives are wise, have better judgment, and embodiment of every virtue.

you can't preach this stuff and not get 50% divorce initiated by wife 75% of time with 'the most righteous generation in history of world saved for the latter days'.

what irks me is that this change in public image makes gospel more palletable to feminists, but my wife divorces me and is remarried within 2 months. the thrust of her dissatisfaction, not feeling adored. the problem was that BOTH of us focused on improving me.