The Significance of Depression as a Mental Health Issue in Australia

Choose ONE mental health
issue and clearly explain why
you think it is a particularly
significant problem in
Australia Explain how this
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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
Mental illness is very common in which depression refers to one of the most common mental
illness which is generally caused due to anxiety disorder which leads to develop depression.
There is also chance of getting depression due to misuse of alcohol and other drugs. Depression
is one of the most common mental illness within Australia through which epidemic in country.
This is highly associated with due to create of anxiety and misuse of drugs or high use of alcohol
consumption that could lead to create the depression within any person. Healthcare professional
generally nursing professionals who are there dealing with such patient with depression and also
causing depression within themselves due to many factors (Appelhof, (2019)).
MAIN BODY
In Australia, there are many people who are continuously suffering from mental illness
which lead to create depression. This is the one which has different cause like biological,
cognitive, co-occurrence medication situation and different. There are about 20% of Australian
who are suffering from depression within mental illness. Depression is one of the mental
disorder through which about one in five of Australian are suffering. This create impact on their
livelihood and impact the society and family member. This is a significant disease which are
generally cause in the Australian people which is due to different mental disorder or mental
illness. Anxiety is one of the main cause due to which people are getting mental illness and lead
to create depression (Kim, (2019)).
Depression has lifetime prevalence which creates one in five Australian are able to
experience the depression with in their lifetime. This is the third globally burden of disease
which impact mental illness and leads to financial cost, morbidity and mortality. It also
expressed as number of years of life lost due to ill health. List of significant impact on human
life for patient it is an emphatic disability within Australia. World Health Organization has
estimated that depression is a number one health condition in developing and developed nation.
There is a high impact of depression over the nurses related with nursing professional.
There are many factors which have directly impacted the individuals mental health. This can lead
to create a depression which is a normal part of a nurse and nursing profession, Nurses generally
offer such type of challenges is experience by them and leads to depression. There are different
causes which can lead to create depression within nursing professional. There are some of the
causes such as high stress situation, finding work life balance, theory of causing patient harm,