Refugee

I wish I had remembered to take my meds earlier, now I'm up wide awake. :icon_eek:

LONDON (Reuters) - Depression is more damaging to everyday health than chronic diseases such as angina, arthritis, asthma and diabetes, researchers said on Friday. And if people are ill with other conditions, depression makes them worse, the researchers found. "We report the largest population-based worldwide study to our knowledge that explores the effect of depression in comparison with four other chronic diseases on health state," the researchers wrote in the Lancet medical journal. Somnath Chatterji of the World Health Organisation, who led the study, said researchers calculated the impact of different conditions by asking people questions about their capacities to function in everyday situations -- such as moving around, seeing things at a distance and remembering information. The researchers assigned a number between 0 and 100 reflecting a person's relative health score. "Our main findings show that depression impairs health state to a substantially greater degree than the other diseases," the researchers wrote. The team used World Health Organisation data collected from 60 countries and more than 240,000 people to show on average between 9 percent and 23 percent had depression in addition to one or more of four other chronic diseases -- asthma, angina, arthritis and diabetes. The most disabling combination was diabetes and depression, the researchers said. "If you live for one year with diabetes and depression together you are living the equivalent of 60 percent of full health," Chatterji said in a telephone interview. The findings show the need to provide better treatment for depression because it has such a big impact on people with chronic illnesses, Chatterji added. "What tends to happen is a health provider doesn't look for anything else but the chronic illness," he said. "What we are saying is, these people will also be depressed and if you don't manage the depression you can't improve a person's health because depression is actually worsening it."

'She is 25 years old, and she has already accomplished everything she is going to accomplish in life.' - Sarah Silverman on Britney Spears

^ The way some of us going, we will be joining you, hey...here's a thought! We can have 'sword fights' with our canes, lol. I wonder what kind of medication that person is on, or off. :eek:

^ I'll have to wish for that again, LOL!

WEIGH = Wow, Ellyn Instructed Gorgeous Heartbreakers :icon_arrow: SHARP

What is the name of the street my childhood friend lived on? Baby Back Ribs

Crazy Joe with Rip Torn who also starred in..

That I am hooked watching Rock of Love, LOL! Why?????

How much my girlfriends really mean to me.

that he started...

Cast your vote.

What is the tallest building you’ve ever been in?

^ Wow, you watched it? :eek:

^ Lmaooo!!!

^ LMAOOO!! Good one, Andrea.

MUNCH = Marion Used Nancy's China Hutch :icon_arrow: EMMIE

Alright WS!! :045:

^ Those sound beautiful, Emmie! I'm glad you got clip ons. My friend has allergies to the nickle in some jewelry, so she wears alot of clip ons. Hard to find good jewelry. I wish my younger daughter would clean up her room! :095:

^ LOL! I admit, I still own my Partridge Family albums, lol.

Don't let them bother you, Emmie. I wonder if my family got it why I didn't wash towels for a few days. :mad:

Sunday: Lots of sunshine. High 72F. Winds WNW at 10 to 20 mph. Sunday night: Partly to mostly cloudy. Low 54F. Winds NNW at 5 to 10 mph.

Times Like These - The Foo Fighters

^ HAHAHA! That we have doves making a home in my backyard. I like their cooing, who would have thought?

Do massive loads of laundry, lol. - In progress. Make all the side fixins for our BBQ - later Water my neighbor's front porch plants. Enjoy a mean game of UNO with my family after BBQ. :003: