Drugs such as medications can cost anywhere from $30 to $200 per month depending on the prescription (drug cost). On top of that you need to add any hours of therapy you may need. You are initially required to visit the therapist at least two hours three days a week at a cost of $50-$240 per hour. This can change depending on the person and how they are doing, either way it costs the individual a lot of money. “Untreated mental illnesses in the United States cost more than $100 billion a year… schools need to open more special education classes” because we don't treat depression, schools and other public services need to open more programs to help them (The Neglect of Mental Illness Takes a huge toll, human and economic.) In America about 90% of crimes committed by people can be related to mental illness and this adds to the total cost because they have to be sent to a special institution and the court it takes longer to process them. . Another study shows that the annual cost of depression is approximately $44 billion and nearly 11 million people are affected by a mental illness including depression (Greenberg, P. E et.al.). Another cost is for patients who care for the person. Those who are severely depressed can have a personal care administrator and the cost averages $2,390; in contrast, for people who received personal care and were not depressed, the cost amounted to only $1,397 (health care cost associated with depressive and anxiety disorders in primary care). The sum of all these numbers shows that depression has a huge overall cost. Looking at an interpersonal view, you see that it costs someone a lot mentally, physically and