Tuesday, June 5, 2007

MARRIED LIFE GOOD FOR THE DEPRESSED

A new study has found that depressed people are happier married than they are single. For some reason depressed people get a psychological boost from being married than those who aren't depressed, although they tend to have poorer quality marriages. Research showed that overall participants that got married scored 3.5 points lower on a 12-item depression test than when they were single.
However, peoople that were depressed scored an average of 7.5 points lower than their depressed counterparts that stayed single.

To read more, click the link below
http://body.aol.com/news/articles/_a/marriage-of-great-benefit-to-the/20070605142509990001

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