DEPRESSING FACTS: Health Secretary P K Hota says there are no mental health care institutions in India.

Depression leading suicide cause

Statistics by a World Health Report in 2001 say depression will be the leading cause of premature deaths by 2020.

Elderly walk into the sunset, alone

Depression amongst the elderly is often confused with old age illness. But it could be due to hectic urban lifestyles.

Increasing number of people are giving into the pressures of the urban living and are depressed.

Along with a job comes stress, graveyard shift, dipping adrenaline and an unending cycle of office-sleep-office.

The stress and pressure of the fast-track urban lifestyle is taking its toll over everybody.

The stress and pressure of urban lifestyle is taking its toll over everybody — children, adults, elderly and professionals.

There is a not-so-glamourous face of the TV stars, many of whom are on the brink of a collapse.

Today's woman wants to do all and and manage all of it to perfection. Unfortunately, some bear the emotional brunt.

Life in the big city isn't easy and it's harder when you have to deal with it, all alone.

It's now trendy for parents to send their children to school counsellors for the slightest problem that surfaces.

They are young, they seem confident but are adolescents able to deal with the pressures of the urban lifestyle?

It's alarming that these days six or seven-year-olds suffer from anxiety disorders like panic attacks.