Many people out there - especially some men will find the latest research on depression laughable......lift your depression by getting married!
Whoever said "to find a committed man look in a mental asylum" may have had a point as researchers say marriage has been proven to lift the mood of people suffering from depression.
A new study suggests that marriage provides more of a psychological boost to depressed people than to happy people, even if the marriage turns out to be pretty average.
In other research the psychological perks of marriage appear dependent on the quality of the union and a happy marriage is the result of a happy couple.
Some studies have even indicated that depressed people, who are often poor communicators place more demands on a marriage with their greater need for caring and support and end up in unhappier marriages.
Researcher Adrianne Frech, a sociology graduate student at Ohio State University, along with her colleague, Kristi Williams was eager to test the hypothesis that people who are depressed have worse marital quality and experience fewer benefits from marriage.
For their study the researchers looked at a sample of 3,066 men and women who had been interviewed and tested for depression once in either 1987 or 1988 and then again five years later.
The team used data for their study from the National Survey of Families and Households.
What was revealed was quite unexpected.