title: Baby boom blues.
abstract: Americans born in the 'baby boom' - the years immediately after the second World War - have increased rates of depression and other related illnesses, including drug and alcohol abuse according to an American psychiatrist who has looked critically at some of the major studies which have proposed this theory since the early 1970's. He concluded that depression among people who are now aged between 30 and 40 is increasing and that depression is starting in this group at an earlier age than in previous generations.