Is depression the curse of our generation?

Signing off from her long-running Daily Mail column , journalist Allison Pearson writes candidly about receiving treatment for depression . The author of I Don't Know How She Does It places the blame for her depression squarely on the pressures of modern life as a woman – "Depression is the curse of my generation," she writes – trying to have a successful professional career and be the perfect partner, mother and daughter: Is it women who are mad, or is it the society we live in? We always suspected there would be a price for Having It All, and we were happy to pay it; but we didn't know the cost would be our mental health. Pearson is not the first public figure to discuss openly their battle against depression : Lewis Wolpert, Gail Porter, Paul Merton, Stephen Fry, Ruby Wax … the list goes on. At least, perhaps, the old taboo surrounding talking about it has dissolved. Have you or do you suffer from depression? What do you blame for causing it? And what ways have you found to cope with the condition?