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While limited to just 10, group plans to address depression

Courtesy photoELLY GRIMM • Leader & Times

Statistics show major depressive disorder affects approximately 17.3 million American adults, or about 7.1 percent of the U.S. population age 18 and older, in any given year, and 1.9 million children, ages 3 to 17 have diagnosed depression.

Further numbers from the Center for Disease Control (CDC) show from 2013 to 2016, 8.1 percent of American adults aged 20 and over had depression in a given 2-week period, and about 80 percent of adults with depression reported at least some difficulty with work, home, and social activities because of their depression.

With such numbers nationwide, The Classy Rack wants to help those suffering from depression in Liberal. The store will be hosting an 8-week depression recovery class starting Monday, with each session starting at 6:30 p.m.

“We’ll be addressing causes of depression one by one and how to counter those causes and get through your depression. A lot of times people think ‘I’m depressed, I need an antidepressant pill,’ but for many, taking that antidepressant doesn’t fully cure them, it just covers up the symptoms and ends up not being the right solution,” Classy Rack Owner Peggy Lloyd said. “And unless you get to the root of the problem and deal with that, it’s very hard to recover from your depression. We’ll have a kind of survey that will go through different areas of your life where you might have suffered something that would cause depression, and those include genetic factors (which people really can’t do anything about as far as prevention), developmental factors (the way you were raised and how you grew up), lifestyle factors (the way you choose to live), circadian rhythms, nutrition and diet, toxic factors (maybe you were exposed to some heavy metals or other toxic substances), addiction factors, social factors, medical conditions and possible frontal lobe injuries (an injury that happened to the front of your head). With that, the frontal lobe is really the control center of the brain and if you’ve taken a hit to that area either in a contact sport or some other situation, that will have an effect on you. Those will be some of the things we’ll be addressing.”