'On average, depression knocks about 10 years from someone’s life expectancy. It is, Gold concludes, a “cancer of the self” that “erodes our dignity and self-respect while it erodes our bodies”.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/sep/10/breaking-through-depression-new-treatments-discoveries-for-healing-the-balanced-brain-science-of-mental-health-philip-gold-camilla-nord-reviews?ref=thebrowser.com