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health advisory Hospital Mental Health 2007-11-15 19:02:29

However, I also aspire to the theory that depression is perpetuating, in that when one person is down, then he or she can and do bring those down around them. If a family is used to depression in the confines of the family home then it is likely to put an 'atmosphere in the house and successive generations grow up within that depressive atmosphere.

But no I don't think that depression itself is genetic.

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my dad suffers from anxiety and depression

so do me and my brother

im more anxiety, my brother is more depression

so id say yes

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yes depression can be inherited you have more chance of suffering from depression if one of your parents did. but needless to say anyone can suffer from depression.

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yes anxiety is genetic. my grandmother and mother both suffer from as well as myself. i don't take medication though. it made me buggy when i was on it. i try to deal with my anxiety by focusing on my son and doing things i like although when there are large crowds i feel like people are closing in on me and like everyones staring at me. i hate it cause then when i get to that point i take it out on my bf but i don't mean to.

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There has been a lot of research about emotional heridity and I think that there is some trith to it.

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no but u can mimic someone elses

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No

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I think only few % of people might be born with depression from birth. A mother can pass her feelings onto her child.

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i have a friend who's mother was a depressant,she couldnt swim,she went the swimming baths and killed herself,that was in 1984.