to move an amps eastward and they moved the names, but the even further it 2008, they decided to even escalate with the bucket before assignments where they wanted to have to get to ukraine in georgia inside data. so this is an aggressive criminal alliance. which is responsible for the mass we see, which is responsible for every that's ukrainian or war. because if it wasn't for ranking international, if it was some sort, a large meant that continues the filament sweetheart to the newest members. it wasn't for it for this, the war would not happen. so to blame russia, author everything that they to did to these stabilize the security of your event of the world in general is really more than a cynical thanks for talking to us today. dr. stephan guy as professor of the institute of european studies in belgrade. certainly many sites, you know, with american soldiers scattered all across the world. one leader of and

a rocky resistance faction has released a both statements promising to kick us servicemen art in coffins. if washington doesn't withdraw our troops from the country, if the agreement is not achieved, we will expel the americans in that confidence from a rock. and we will humiliate the black house administration. the us house repeatedly, a 9th, the reduction of its mission in a rock. the 1st time was back in 2011. soon after the end of the 2nd direct more 10 years later, the pentagon reduced its mission to 2500 personal, changing its status to advisory. on the mid us strikes on the rocky territory earlier this year, calls from baghdad to withdrawal trips or intensifying again in another country demanding the withdrawal of us troops is mid year of the wedding states solve officials in the west african nation claim. washington will soon submits

a proposal to withdraw. busy its soldiers had all valid nonsense naomi had sold military agreements with the us, demanding the withdrawal of american ad, america's contingent of a solid and personnel in the us delegation. you may recall arrived to the country soon after that in what was on on successful attempt to dissuade the nigerian leadership. well, we discuss that with a demo garbo candidate in last year's nigeria presidential election. we say is the us is infringing and other nation security with its foreign military presence. the is what, how many media is joel is pretty close to the phone over the phone for about 700 on on something. it's not just that house, because if you look at the national security council, the where the intel start to get the on demand for me to cease fire into the you is,

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uncomfortable. my show is called stretching time, but again, you probably don't want to watch it because it might just change the way you the mental health is something that's been getting a lot of buzz recently. ever since a pandemic. everyone is prioritizing it, demanding that others respect it and many are using it as an excuse to just take a break from reality. but there is a difference between wanting and mental health break and actually suffering from depression. i'm christy, and you're watching the costs of everything more today. we're going to be talking about mental health and unraveling the intricacies of depression and anxiety, and the staggering costs that they impose on our society. the

depression is one of the most common forms of mental illness and the world with about 280000000 people worldwide suffering from it. the national institute of mental health estimates that $21000000.00 us adults had at least one major depressive episode, which represents around 8.3 percent of the us adult population. symptoms include a loss of interest in things that used to be enjoyable. lots of energy, feelings of worthlessness and guilt, difficulty concentrating, anxiety and thoughts of death or suicide. depression is more common among women than men, with the most common age between 18 to 25 years old. depression is also common among youth with up to 29 percent of teenage girls and almost 12 percent of teenage boys experiencing a major depressive episode in 2021. the younger generation are struggling with mental health as a cobit pandemic. disruptive, pivotal periods of growth for young adults,

which have left them more susceptible to the drivers of depression. young adults reported higher rates of depression than any other age group and the greatest increase in recent years. the depression and anxiety are on the rise, and there are multifaceted reasons behind this increase. you have seidel pressures, economic uncertainties, and the fast pace nature of modern life. creating the perfect storm. the cost in connectivity and information overload also plays a significant role in amplifying stressors. technology introduces new challenges as cost and exposure, security and versions of others live on social media. can foster feelings of inadequacy. so finding a healthy balance in our digital lives is crucial. the economic tool of depression is staggering from last productivity in the workplace to increased health care expenditures. the financial impact is substantial. we often underestimate the ripple effects on families, communities, and the overall economy. one mental health is neglected. approximately 6 to 7

percent of full time us workers experience major depression disorder or mtv. within the past year, the total economic burden of us adults with m. d, was estimated at $210000000000.00. workplace costs accounted for the largest portion of the growing economic burden. as m d. d leads to absenteeism and present p is um, where there is reduced productivity while at work. this result in reduced educational obtainment, lower earnings potential higher unemployment and increase work disability. 45 percent of the total costs are due to direct medical costs, such as therapy, outpatient, and inpatient medical services, pharmaceuticals, etc. the economic ripples of and dd are extensive for every dollar spent on treating depression and additional $4.70 cent is spent on direct and indirect costs . a related illnesses and another $1.90 is spent on reduced workplace productivity

. and now today we're joined by author, i'm positive psychology expert, robert mac to discuss some more. and so how has the prevalence of depression evolved over the years? and are there identifiable patterns or factors contributing to these changes? yeah, they were, we have an additional $53.00. when to make use of anxiety, an additional 76200000 case of major depressive disorder in 2020 and according to the global burden, disease study, lots of socio economic, cultural, and other factors or play there. i would say that women and children are and have been consistently, it's hardest, the most the think that something outside of us or someone outside of us can or will make us happy. lots of space. lots of people can encourage us to be happy. but if we look closely at the science and we look closely in reliance, we can big would be. i noticed that people who seem to have everything are often

deeply depressed, least unhappy and obviously as i what are the societal costs associated with uncreated or poorly managed depression and treated work for them is depression leads to higher suicide rates, higher health care spending long life or work activity and so much more can you discuss some of the broader economic implications of depression, including its impact on workforce productivity and health care expenditures. depression have significant economic implications in direct cost like therapy and medication for individuals and indirect costs. like last productivity and disability claims organizations, we tend to think about depression like an individual and on a case by case basis and that one of the things, individuals and or their families, our loved ones. the truth is it affects all of us, whether we're diagnosed with clinical depression or anxiety or not. you're right. it has um, economic cost and other cost that's to transcend the individual trans end of the family and actually affect us as a country. and as, as a world, so yeah,

the question of depression goes beyond what any particular individual experiences. and it touches all of this in one way or another. and are there a notable variations in the prevalence of depression across different countries or regions? i think the united states, we do tend to consistently right low with respect to happiness and high with respect to depression, anxiety therapy for developed countries in our thoughts. that being said, the problems of depression rates varies across different demographics. so for instance, the demik women and children were disproportionately affected with respect to depression and anxiety are of lots of factors that contribute to lots to sort of depression or one handed evidence on the other. you know, so i think consistently, lots of countries in europe and south america and even in our rig fire in happiness, the united states for lots of reasons. some of those factors have to do with house . and one of we think the culture is surprisingly enough. so let's do the politics

. so a lots of countries take them more, for example, maybe switzerland or even sweden, when folks are taxed at pretty much the same rate. so let's say is your tax credit, but you know, i'm gonna be approximately 50 percent. everybody makes pretty much the same amount of money or so it's enough to have the same amount of money so that people choose careers as a result of that. because the love or they are passionate about doing x, y, and z, as opposed to just increased for surely monetary materialistic reasons. and so that means that later in life, they've generally happier progressions they've chose and also sometimes their healthcare benefits and other i'm so so, so to walker problems that are put in place for people. so gonna have to worry about things like losing their job as much like health care and those things matter a great deal to people. so anywhere that people feel a lot on the market of trust. rachel connected and not so late, but it's only proceeded understood, and they're taken care of by the government. this tests are going to report higher

levels of happiness and lower levels of depression, relatively speaking, with countries that don't do those things. i'm so well, we're focused on other programs or other level guess initiatives, how to cultural and societal factors influence the understanding and reporting of depression in various parts of the world and to look for the news. depression, we see a higher suicide rates, our health care spending, or one of life or more productivity and more. and um, how often do consistently answer freely people on one hand report a symptoms of depression, anxiety, defense, the largest stance on how accept that is and, and even celebrate is within sort of our country. so there's always a lot of stigma around the depression and anxiety that there was a lot of parts of the world or with this particular since he got an orange status levels or within the doctor, different races or the cities or even gender related differences to cost

differences in reporting, it can also cost differences in diagnosis as well. thank you so much robert, but please stick around. author, robert mac will stay with us right here after the break. and as we head into the break, we will explore if a nation's culture can deeply influence mental health and access to treatment or not state. and from are the the, the

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the, the while depression is a growing problem world wide. ukraine tops the list as a country with the highest rate of depression at 6.3 percent. this is followed by the us, australia and estonia at 5.9 percent, brazil at 5.8 percent and grease of 5.7 percent. a nation's culture can have

a significant impact on both the mental health aspect of its population and the availability of treatment services. for example, one depression is relatively uncommon in japan, suicide rates are high for children and teens ages 10 to 19. this is most likely due to the pressure to do well in school and work a and many asian cultures such as china, japan or korea. there is a concept of face which refers to one's reputation. mental health challenges are viewed as an individual problem or weakness, and talking openly about sadness, disappointment, or depression is rarely encouraged. in some african culture, such as nigeria gone or kenya, there is a belief in witchcraft which refers to the use of supernatural powers to cause harm or misfortune. people with mental health disorders may be accused of being, which is, are possessed by evil spirits, and may face ostracism from their family or community. in india, there's still

a stigma, a lack of mental health awareness, mental illness is not considered a disease, but a state of mind. this leads to a lack of training professionals to service those who need it. but luckily, in many countries, the stigma surrounding mental illnesses is gradually decreasing. this enables a more open discussion of mental illness and makes people more likely to seek help, but they need it since the start of cobra. 19 more companies are enhancing their mental health benefit offerings for employees. a survey of $256.00 companies found that since coven 53 percent of employers have begun providing specific emotional and mental health programs for the workforce. these programs include free access to various health and wellness applications, video sessions with mental health counselors and stipends for psychological or physical health related services. meanwhile, countries with the lowest rates of depression include the solomon islands at 2.9 percent pipe. a new guinea,

a 3 percent. micronesia at 3 point one percent. and the poll at 3.2 percent. and now we're joined again by officer and positive psychology expert robert mac to discuss a more to now robert, from an economic standpoint, what are the direct and indirect cost associated with depression for individuals, individuals based on the direct and indirect cost associated with depression, the direct costs, of course, or the cost of healthcare itself, treatments, medication therapy, things of that nature. the indirect costs going to be, we'd be psych harmony and extensive raul, lots of income and potential long term disability when you're depressed are often used to the last, the motivation to show up to work. you need to take these off. but also when you do show up, you tend to be disengaged, and how does depression contribute to health care expenses, workplace, absenteeism, and disability claims. anything that would affect drew, motivation orderly, to sort of maintain it. consistently healthy mood is going to also attack people

around you is going to take your day to be productive to think creatively, to show up and be efficient and effective. and what you do add your job. what are the financial considerations for individual seeking treatment for depression, including therapy and medication costs? speaking, it's the nature pos for individuals out of pocket expenses, for therapy, medications, and other types of treatment, other disparities, and access to mental health treatments based on social economic factors. there are significant disparities and access to mental health treatment. those are based mostly on so so that's another factors but also on other things like our gender and race and ethnicity and culture as well. people with lower incomes and people with health insurance based probably the greatest challenges with respect to those getting diagnosed with and getting treatment for depression, anxiety under other mental health disorders. lots of those folks who don't have access to health insurance and have lower incomes for lots of reasons that have directly to do with not having access to health insurance and not having enough

money to pay the bills. maybe they are living below a level of subsistence, which means they can't pay for basic necessities are going to be under more stress . they might have some more design use result of that. they're going to feel more help with some more help was it? so not only are they more subject often to experiencing symptoms of depression and anxiety, but they also have less access to doing anything about it unless it believes anything about it. and that can actually increase or make worse the depression, anxiety itself. and are there studies or rankings that identify countries with higher rates of depression and what factors might contribute to these variations? just studies like the global burden of disease. so we provide insights into countries with higher rates of depression, really indicated a dentist impact on increasing the problems, things that even depression. but there are course lots of factors that it also speaks to, including some of the things we mentioned before, which is sort of socio economic status politics. culture varies the city,

gender, even, and even age. those things can all play a critical role. they both are getting diagnosed with depression, anxiety or another not to disorder. and also being treated for it seems like anxiety and depression are quite prevalent in our society today. but where is the threshold for someone to be clinically diagnosed as depressed or suffering from high anxiety? and just someone who doesn't coldwell with stress and pressure and people diagnoses for depression is significantly different than the normal healthy. but often uncomfortable responses that we have to stress, adversity and the challenges of our everyday life. when you find it extraordinarily different that difficult and to respond to everyday life in a way that is other than healthy. in other words, you're sewing up the response to this or see which of your life in

a way that makes it difficult to get to the day. when you find it difficult to find interesting things that you normally have interest in. when you find it default to sleep, so you're speaking to the order seeking too much, you just want to always be asleep. uh, things of this nature. what are some of the criteria that a mental health professional is used to diagnose the clinical depression? the depression is really something that goes way beyond sadness that goes way beyond your everyday stress. and it's a clinical diagnosis that you receive only from a mental health professional. and they have a checklist of frontier today. you know, so that you, for, to determine whether or not, when your experience is of normal and healthy or requires a deeper or greater form of treatment of your medication. and so, yes, they would, especially significantly different. and from the normal responses that we all. so some have, you know, for what we're experiencing other challenges workforce in your life. we've got businesses, you as a usual psychology on one hand. and that's what we use to diagnose. clinical

disorders, depression, anxiety, we've got positive, i called you the other hand, it mostly focused on mental health it together. they create a science that says, see clearly what leads to happiness because after this, what gets the way of it and what piece of depression anxiety instead. and so there's, there's no question about it. there's a way we live here in the united states presents unique challenges to feeling consistently at peace, to feeling satisfied with your life. i'm typically happy and can sometimes make it a lot easier to feel depressed and anxiety and stressed out and on other other things. the speed at which we live is one of those factors. the diversity is actually a huge benefit and really fantastic in lots of ways can also be a challenge and not just diversity in terms of race and gender and, and religion. it was interesting but also to just a variety of thoughts and lots of diversity. it's not gonna say it's like a present a challenge for folks who are unable to maintain or hold calm. distance which is

just the stress needs id of seeing or experiencing contradictory ways of living. often. that's another example, i think also going to states we have a very individualistic culture. some cultures are going to go with the individual listed somewhere. it works with a collectivist and what that essentially means is that we have decided to have the self made person which can be really inspiring on one end. but it also can be put on very long on the other. and it can also blame themselves when they're not successful, or they're not driving. and then we add into that a lot of it taking logical factors like social media and being so available online . it was, it said that it was lives 2 decades ago. you could only really understand, receives people's lives. they told you about them. what was your next door neighbor? these days you can literally get a glimpse into millions of people's lives across the entire world. and that could set you up for unhappiness, even depression, anxiety as you begin to compare, contrast drew life in your day with millions of people's lives across the world. so we've got

a lot of factors that can plan to the challenge that we face here in united states, specifically across the world as well. thank you so much, robert, for all your time today. for a while, depression is on the rise, the bright spot, and all of this is the pharmaceutical industry. yes. for every problem there seems to be a little pill that can make it all better. the anti depressant market is experiencing substantial growth, reaching an estimated value of $21800000000.00 by 2030, a surgeon prevalence and an increasing awareness towards mental health disorders such as depression and anxiety are pivotal factors driving this expansion. the number of anti depressants prescribed per year, more than tripled over the past 2 decades, from 18400000 in 1998 to 70900000 in 2018. 50 per 7 percent of gen, the years with mental health conditions are taking medications. and those who aren't on their parents insurance pay around $528.00

a year out of pocket for medication. north america is identified as pertaining the largest market share. so the pharmaceutical industry ends up being the big winner, even though a reliance on pharmaceuticals to solve your problems. is it optimal? but unfortunately, people liked the easy way out and would rather take a pill then to solve these problems in therapy. i'm for 3. i, thanks for watching and we'll see you right back here next time on the cost of everything. the, [000:00:00;00]

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504 civilians, including 210 children, became a tragic symbol of this war. all and all. during the whole period of this conflict, the usa dropped on vietnam more than $6000000.00 tons of bonds, which is 2 and a half times as much as on germany during the 2nd world war. in 1973, the american army under the pressure of the rebels, withdrew from vietnam, and only 2 years later did the pop and regime. and so i got involved. however, the vietnamese paid a high price for their freedom. more than 1000000 in vietnamese people became the victims of american aggressors. secretary defense lloyd austin declared, well, hosting is is really, counterparts. b, u. s. these are all military relationship is unshakable as israel continues of slaughter or palestinians and gaza. the historical records notes,

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