N-TV (commercial German news network) brought this up in the AM today. There's been this research project by the Robert Koch Institute for the EU. It surveyed European countries and ranked them on the topic of medical depression.
I read the data, and it centered on the survey folks asking people how they felt.....which means that if a guy just had a bit of negativity or criticism in himself....that would lead to the number ranking. I'm not sure if that's the kind of yard-stick that you'd want to use.
But in this survey....Germany ranked second at the top, behind Luxembourg, with roughly 9-percent of Germans agreeing on their depressive mode.
A fair sized group surveyed? Well....over 250,000 Europeans.
Oddly, slightly more women, than men....on the German data....spoke up about this depressive state of mind (figure around 10 women for 7 guys).
The problems I see with this type of survey is that you could twist the numbers by having the survey do mostly rural Germans (who often seem happier) and avoid urbanized Germans (who seem more stressed out).
If you walked into a pub and talked to working class Germans, they'd tend to agree on various states of depression being a problem but a lot of this has to do with job expectations, stress in living in highly urbanized areas, and the economics of modern-day Germany.
The question here at the end....after you produce this document....now what? Mandatory psychological evaluations for all Germans? I kinda doubt that.
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