Last year a survey by student newspaper The Tab revealed that 21% of Cambridge students have been diagnosed with depression, while a further 25% think they may be depressed.
The single biggest misunderstanding surrounding depression is that we've all been a bit depressed at one time or another, so what's the fuss all about?
"During this depression, when the spirit of the people is lower than at any other time, it is a splendid thing that, for just 15 cents, an American can go to a movie and look at the smiling face of a baby and forget his troubles," Franklin D Roosevelt stated in 1935, referring to the world's biggest and littlest star.
An eight-month inquiry by the all party group on mindfulness found frontline public servants could be less likely to fall ill with stress, or quit altogether, if they engage in the increasingly popular meditation practice which involves increasing awareness of the present moment to help control anxiety and depression.
Depression is like that – it's never just suddenly over.
The financial crisis and the great recession, indeed depression, undermined many of the assumptions of bourgeois triumphalism.
Verbal and written feedback from patients has been largely very positive and measures of depression and anxiety on average show a significant reduction following the course.
Mental health carries a huge social stigma across Africa and information booklets designed to help people with depression or mental health problems simply weren't working, especially in remote communities with high illiteracy rates.
All sports have their ups and downs of course, and cricket is not alone in producing sports stars with depression.
And this from a man who is not just a fellow depression sufferer but a coach of young talent.
"Even though we know it's all about temperament, how you deal with pressure, we do very little about it".There are plenty of theories – and scientific disagreements - as to the cause of depression, many of them too medical to mention here.
