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Bipolar disorder occurs in only about 1% of the population,
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and it's equally prevalent in women and men.
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So, it's a really quite different disorder in many ways from depression alone.
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I want to give you some other statistics about depression per se,
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and this only applies to depression.
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There are quite large age differences in the prevalence of depression.
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These are data from a nationwide study of people between
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the ages of fifteen and fifty-five,
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and these are the percentages of people in this study.
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And there were several thousand people in the study.
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These are not people who have sought treatment for depression
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but just a random community sample. And this is the percentage