wow, never knew

[tattoodvampyre]

Cool! glad somethings i say make sense!

[sybil4insane]

Im curious if it can be inhertiated. I witnessed Depression first hand. My mom had it really bad. she had to be in a hostipial for a week and had to be on meds for a while. She was missing Secration. But she is much better now. I think I had been very very low down since the beginning of the year( I have just recently began cheering up and got over a really bad obsession but that is another story). But I dont think it was Depression per se.

[forgottenshadow]

I don't know if this answers your question sybil4insane but my mum had depression and so did my older sister, and now i have it. oh yea i just remembered, i think the doctor said it can be inherited

[Graveyard Goddess]

my mum doesnt understand why people have depression. she thinks it is laziness and negativity....yet ive got depression. between anxiet and depression i take loooads of meds and go see doctors n hospitals a lot, but i dont think it was inherited i dontknow

[lostsoul]

One of my aunts is diagnosed with depression, although she's the only one out of 9 siblings, and her parents didn't have any depression at all, and there are no one else who has been diagnosed with it yet. I haven't gone to the doctors to get a diagnoses, so I don't know if mine is depression or not.
I don't know, mayby it inherited, I'll have to look this up and see.

[sybil4insane]

Personally, I think it can be inhertiated like Alchol tolerence. ( my dad and his family has that problem and couldn't have passed it down to me that is why I dont drink). I have met a person who Grandfather had depression and she inhertied. But that is my theroy, I dont think I have it though although I was worried sick over one of my good friends over the year. So in my case, I dont think it was depression just because I dont like KISS anymore and was trying to break from my bad obsession. I know this is off topic but I think if you are too obsessed over something that should count as an addiction right? Mine was unhealthy to put it plainly.

[tattoodvampyre]

www.clinical-depression.co.uk/faq/hereditary.htm

"AS you will know if you have completed the Depression Learning Path, depression is not primarily a biological disorder.

However, as we grow up, we do learn life attitudes and behavioral habits from those around us, so from this point of view depression as a way of seeing and behaving can be passed on. "

My father suffers from depression or at least he did but he's better now, ( the amazing power of meds!)
I suffer badly from various mental problems and my cousin does too.
there seems to be a conflict between information on whether its hereditary or not some docs say yes some say no.

"Which psychological factors make you susceptible to depression?

Various psychological factors can make you susceptible. They may be the reason why you develop depression. These factors can be either:

External psychological factors (past, present and environmental)
Internal psychological factors


Which external factors increase the risk of depression?
External factors from your past can make you susceptible to depression. They will often date back to your childhood.

Two things in particular can make you susceptible to depression:

Poor contact with parents or early loss of a parent through death or divorce
Emotionally "cold" upbringing, i.e. a lack of nurturing and attention to needs

Adults who suffer from depression are around ten times more likely than healthy people to recall an upbringing characterised by cold control.

You might think that people suffering from depression will remember their upbringing as cold because their mood is negatively affected. However, studies have found that they describe their upbringing in the same way once they are in good health again. Witnesses to their upbringing also confirm that it was cold.

There is therefore no doubt that cold control makes people more susceptible to depression in later life.

Are there any other external factors that increase the risk of depression?
The following external factors can also trigger depression:

Physical and sexual assault
Conflict and turbulence in the home
Parents who used a sense of shame as an aid to upbringing
Parents who openly favoured other siblings
Parents who made unreasonable demands on their children, for example, in relation to performance at school


Are there any present-day external factors that increase the risk of depression?
There may be external factors that burden and "damage" you over a long period but these present-day factors will not trigger depression on their own. They will only do this if you are already susceptible.

Here are some long-term factors that increase the risk of developing depression:

Emotionally unrewarding or conflict-ridden relationship with your partner
Stressful divorce
Stressful or unrewarding working environment
Long-term unemployment
Loneliness

In some cases these external factors can spark off a bout of depression

Does loneliness increase the risk of depression?
You are at greatest risk of developing depression if you don't have somebody close to you who you can talk to about everything.

Superficial acquaintances cannot replace that one person who is very close to you. If you have only a large number of superficial acquaintances, you run a greater risk of developing depression. You need to have somebody to talk to about your personal problems.


Can personality traits cause depression?
There are four psychological personality traits that can increase the risk of developing depression:

General nervousness
Deeply negative way of thinking
Passive pattern of behaviour
Perfectionstic and obessional type

Generel nervousness
If you are emotionally volatile and vulnerable, you are at greater risk of getting depressed. In other words, you are:

Touchy
Emotionally sensitive

If you have a tendency to react with strong negative feelings, you may often suffer a set back emotionally if you are exposed to external stresses such as a divorce or losing your job.

Your tendency to be nervous depends on both inheritance and environment. Nervousness, like other personality traits, is due to a combination of your genes and your personal development.

Deeply negative way of thinking
A negative way of thinking means that you:

Tend to think in a negative and pessimistic way
Think particularly negative thoughts whenever you encounter a setback

There are three main signs of a negative way of thinking:

A tendency to take the blame for bad things
A tendency to believe that bad things dominate your existence
A belief that things won't ever get better - you expect the bad things to persist for the rest of your life

A new American study has shown that young people with a negative way of thinking are 16 times more at risk of depression than other people.


What is a passive pattern of behaviour?

A passive pattern of behaviour is where you react to setbacks by:

Freezing
Giving up on resolving problems
Runnings from problems



The risk of getting depressed is reduced if you learnt during childhood (or later) how to resolve problems. One way of resolving problems is to talk about them.




If you tend to react passively, this may be the result of a negative way of thinking. Maybe you often say to yourself:



"I just can't do anything right"

The reason why you think like this may be that you haven't learnt how to resolve life's problems in an active and constructive manner.

There are other personality traits that increase the risk of depression:

Low self-esteem
Unstable self-esteem (swings wildly with life's ups and downs)
A high degree of emotional dependence on other people
A low degree of trust in other people "

My problems started when i was 24 i had just got married and 3 mths later i was signed off work due to anxiety and depression ( its amazing how a bad marriage can affect you!)
a year later things were even worse

i had a bit of a reprieve when i left my x husband and moved home, tho things were good i still had problems. It was only when i moved to where i am now that things were good but i was single, once i got into a relationship it all started again, then when that ended things where good for a while then i had a major falling out with my dad and things slowly got bad again by the time i was in a relationship with my x fiance, i was feeling low, 3 yrs on and i was a mess, agoraphobia, ocd, SI, weight gain, lack of confidence,self loathing, and all this came about because of my x, i cant explain how he managed to do that to me, he was very subtle and i knew he loved me. But he could be mean, and my family and friends could see it but i couldnt. 2 months after we split, i was a different person id lost 42lbs got my confidence back, was able to go out and about, my OCD is manageable ( pretty much ordinary things now) and i havent SI's in 9mths.....ive come to the conculsion that relationships arent very good for me as they all seem to be able to bring me down