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Can a person even be born with depression?

bcarrera 2012/08/07 06:51:41
Related Topics: Depression, WTF, Person
I asked this because I met a person who said that she was born with that. I was like, "WTF?".
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  • LunarRain 2012/08/07 06:53:56
    LunarRain
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    It can run in the family. That's why they ask your family if they have a history of depression because you can get some genetically so yes you can be born with it.

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  • Chloey Hamer 2012/08/07 22:57:35
    Chloey Hamer
    +1
    maybe if you have a malformation in the brain or something.
  • Weronikus 2012/08/07 19:24:24
    Weronikus
    +1
    no. Though it is possilbe they've got depression from a young age.
  • ParkMan 2012/08/07 13:08:59
    ParkMan
    +1
    Depression can be due to medical reasons - so yes, I can imagine you can be born with it.
  • D D 2012/08/07 12:03:27
    D D
    +2
    Yes. It is a chemical imbalance in your body. Clinical depression is not from something going on outside, like a death that makes you depressed for awhile. it is different.
  • DesTay896 2012/08/07 09:27:05
    DesTay896
    +1
    yes, it can be genetically inherited. hmm, maybe thats why im so screwed up, lol.
    but yes, you can be born with it.
  • Tom R 007 2012/08/07 09:00:29
    Tom R 007
    +2
    Dude, I've already commented on a comment you made on another post about depression. Do some research before you start judging people with mental illness. There is already a stigma attached to those of us who suffer from depression, and we don't need ignorant people making it any worse.
  • Beat Magnum True Hero 2012/08/07 08:56:50
    Beat Magnum True Hero
    +3
    It's a clinical disease that is often genetic. This "WTF" attitude is why so many people go untreated.
  • strawberry 2012/08/07 07:39:54
    strawberry
    +3
    Majority of mental illness is genetic, hereditary. Depression is often hereditary. It takes both environment and genetics to bring out mental illness. There is clinical depression which is treated with anti depressants. People who have Bipolar Illness will go from feeling very high to very depressed. Lithium usually controls this. Of course there are realistic reasons for depression such as loss of loved ones, loss of jobs, no money, etc.
  • Chukroast 2012/08/07 07:22:13
    Chukroast
    +1
    You can be born IN a depression but not with.
  • strawberry Chukroast 2012/08/07 07:44:45
    strawberry
    +3
    Depression can be hereditary, genetic. Most mental illness are hereditary, genetic. Stressful Environment can bring such genetic mental illness out in a person. By having a gene for mental illness you are born with it. There is also depression from realistic natural causes.
  • LunarRain 2012/08/07 06:53:56
    LunarRain
    +5
    It can run in the family. That's why they ask your family if they have a history of depression because you can get some genetically so yes you can be born with it.
  • strawberry LunarRain 2012/08/07 07:51:47
    strawberry
    +2
    You are correct. Mental illness is genetic, hereditary. A mental illness can remain dormant, and surface under very stressful conditions. Depression does genetically run in families. Depression is treated with anti depressants. Those with Bipolar illness can go from a real high to total depression. Schizophrenia usually can remain dormant, then show up in teen years and early twenties.

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