Abstract:Depression, as the most common mental worldwide disorder, has been the major contributor to suicide deaths. In this paper, we model how depression is contagious among the population using Agent-Based Modeling approach. A sufferer can be affected due to contagion effects of social interactions, particularly from close relationships, then undergo a depressive episode that categorized by mild, moderate, severe. Every episode can be recovered by doing therapy. Those transition processes are described based on gend… Show more
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