1 In a given year, between 1 and 2 percent of people over age 65 living in the community, i.e., not living in nursing homes or other institutions, suffer from major depression and about 2 percent have dysthymia. Depressive disorders are appearing earlier in life with the average age of onset 50 years ago being 29 whereas recent statistics indicate it at just 14.5yrs in today's society. 2  Nearly twice as many women (12.0 percent) as men (6.6 percent) are affected by a depressive disorder each year.
Originally Answered: What is the opposite of a Democracy? Dictatorship (or, as others have more accurately labelled, autocracy). Democracy is described as a political system where the general populace are permitted to engage, to varying degrees, in the day-to-day running of their own countries, whether through representative democratic elections or actual direct democratic actions, such as referenda.
Democracy is a system that allows the people of a country to have more control in the formation of the laws of the land as well as in the policies and conduct of the representatives whom they choose on the basis of elections. There is input from the citizens of the country in democracy. There are different forms of democracies that follow the principles of true democracies in varying degrees with direct and representative being most commonly practiced in many parts of the world. There are differences between these two systems of democracy that will be talked about in this article.