If losing your home through foreclosure wasn’t bad enough, researchers from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have found that many people undergoing the process are suffering from major depression (clinical depression). In an online published report, the American Journal of Public Health relates that in a study group of 250 people in Philadelphia experiencing foreclosure, 37 percent “met screening criteria for major depression.”

This percentage is substantially higher than that of the general population, which is 5 to 8 percent as reported by the National Alliance of Mental Illness.

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