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Depression is hereditable?

campyone
campyone
My Aunt suffered Depression my Dad suffered Depression, I suffer from depression..
Is it proven that's is hereditary?
Is there any way out of this deep dark hole that I find myself falling into time and time again?
Seems to be happining, more and more and getting harder to get out of it with each bout...
AT the moment I feel like I'm watching myself being eaten alive by it.. friends and family have noticed and commented but that just makes me shut down more..
deleted_user
deleted_user
I would not doubt for a moment that it is hereditary. Both sides of my family are jam packed with the depressed and bipolar.
soulsearcher83
soulsearcher83
It's proven to be hereditary. I have the same problem. My mom and her sister have major depression. Some psychological problems on my dad's side too.
china70
china70
yay i think its hereditary. My grandmother suffered from it from what i heard and i have an aunt and uncle who have it also. Mine i think is more severe than theirs. Sometimes family can make you feel worse because they dont understand it cause they dont see it or their scared of it.
Summerwind81
Summerwind81
I think they're absolutely related. I didn't know (until this post) that it had actually been proven, but with all the crap running through my family, I never thought it made sense that there was no correlation.

Right after my father died, he finally swallowed a little pride and went to see a psychologist. The doctor prescribed two of the very same medications that I was taking. We both apparently had depression and panic attacks. His father was depressed as well, but, being a small-town doctor in the 40's through the 70's, he self-medicated.
ZAZAS
ZAZAS
It runs all through my family tree, both sides.
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