More unemployed than employed emerging adults were classified with depression

Unemployment is one of the major distresses that can strike a human being. Unemployment rates in the general population surge during economic recessions, but unemployment may also occur to individuals as a sequela of physical injury or disease. People losing their jobs are very likely to experience psychological tension, mainly depression and anxiety, which negatively affects their health, their family's security, and society's stability in general.

Unemployment depression, which particularly affects middle-aged persons, may manifest with physical symptoms such as headache, irritability, stomachache, and sexual dysfunction in its early stages.4 More serious symptoms may eventually arise, including fatigue, sluggishness, loss of interest in life pleasures, and, worst of all, suicidal thoughts, plunging individuals who lose their job into a vicious cycle of frustration and defeat that makes it even harder for them to find a new job. Our study shows that unemployment and depression are common among those who have had spine surgery, with depression being more common among unemployed patients. Women admitted for spine surgery who are unemployed and report a history of depression are more likely than other patients to have had spine surgery in the past.