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Default Depression—How We Now Interpret Distress as Mental Illness

Mad in America

In Australia, the economic cost has been particularly damaging to the life insurance industry who often pick up the cost of income protection for workers who have been diagnosed with a mental disorder. A focus on depression in Australia corresponded with similar campaigns in the US and the UK in the 1980s and 1990s.