1 Hour Documentary – Broadcast on 26th December 2010, 9pm on Discovery Taiwan

Description of Program (Translated from Discovery Taiwan’s Website)

The physically and mentally debilitating depression, along with cancer and AIDS, are major health crisis for mankind in the 21st century. Yet depression has not received the attention it deserves. Today, nearly two million Taiwan adults have depressive tendencies. This growth is phenomenal, considering it was less than 2% at the end of the 20th century.

Depression is the result of living under sustained, long term pressure. Unlike the West, Eastern societies often regard depression as taboo or stigmatic, delaying sufferers from seeking treatment. But in fact depression can be treated and even prevented. In Taiwan, Chinese medicine approaches depression from a different perspective.

This program introduces the various treatments for depression, including views from East and West medicine and mind, spiritual and religious dimensions.Among the Taiwanese medical community today, there appears to be new opportunities in treating severe depression patients…

Other Broadcast Dates:

2010/12/27 05:00,2010/12/27 12:00, 2010/12/31 19:00, 2011/01/01 03:00, 2011/02/28 22:00, 2011/03/01 05:00, 2011/03/01 10:00, 2011/03/07 15:00, 2011/05/01 20:00, 2011/05/04 19:00, 2011/05/05 03:00, 2011/05/05 12:00, 2011/05/08 11:00

Links to other news about the episode:

kingnet.com.tw