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Depression can be caused by family influences and experiences. Depression is a disorde that causes the constant feelings of sadness, sorrow and hopelessness. These feelings can tear apart the person battling with depression. Depressin can cause feelings of suicide homicide and other violent ways of expression. Depression doesn't just have an effect on the person dealing with it, it has an effect on friends and relatives as well. Depression can be spread through abuse, it can also be passed down by genetics and maybe even caused by social events in your life.
Studies show that "if thre is depression in the family a persons chances of developing depression is higher". Family history shows that many traits can be passed down from one generation to the next generation. For example my mother has dark brown eyes as well as her mother and my younger sister. The brown eyes are hereditary in my family. But depression is different, depression isn't the color of your skin or the shape of your head. Depression is a sickness in your brain. Some studies show that people with depresseion have a different look to their brain causing them to have these feelings. Sometimes traits get pased down and skip generations. For example my grandmother battles with depression. She is always held to herself, she is quiet when she is alone and has very bad anxiety. When my family visits her she becomes a new person easily upset and agiatated by everything. It upsets the family and makes us feel uncomfortable. Unfortunately her characteristics are the same as my younger sister. Not many of my family members have depression but it is clear where my sisters depression has came from. "I believe that family does play a major role in the way we behavein society". From my perspective of my family history I do believe depression has been passed down genetically.
Traumatic experiences and changes are another way depression can be formed. Trauma from certain events in life can uproar an amount of sadness and fear causing depression to settle in the mind. Rape is a very strong subject that can be reasoning for depression. One of my family members was raped as a child. She was really sad, hurt and distant for a long time. Her mind was all over the place but she always seemed calm and humble around the family. Nobody knew what had happened to her until she started to act out. She became very rebellious and evil. She didn't like herself nor her family. She would dress as an outcast and talk like an outcast. Many times her mother would fight and argue with her until one day she wrote down how she felt. She let everything out. She told her secrets and poured her feelings on a paper. After cutting, herself trying to commit suicide and having such bad thought she was sent away to get help. Eventually she came back to her home. She was going to counseling and speaking to many people about how she felt. Her story is a story that can be told by many people. It didn't help that she always stayed alone anyway: "social isolation due to being the outcast can lead to depression". She isn't the only one who has been through this whether it is rape or physical abuse by a mother or a father, even a sister or a brother maybe it was an aunt or an uncle. No matter who did it, it can cause trauma, leaving bad thoughts in the victims head. These thoughts can really effect the life of someone who has been through anything traumatic.
Another way depression can be passed down is by social changes or experiences in your life. Bullying is a big reason for depression in young adults. Some people never get over the fact that they were bullied as a kid. Some people get bullied as an adult. Unfortuantely these actions can result in bad thoughts. Some of the thoughts play over and over in the victims head not allowing them to escape their feelings and thoughts. This is why they get stuck with depression. Sometimes social changes can help develope depression as well as many other obstacles. Moving into a new home can be a draumatic change. My mother used to move alot when she was younger. One year she moved so often that she failed a grade due to the lack of consistant education. She eventually dropped out of school. An event like this in anyone's life can really cause bad thoughts and hurt feelings. Luckily my mother took advantage of her life and got her G.E.D but this doesn't happen to just anyone some people are hurt by it and continue to be stuck in sorrow.
Depression is a sickness that can be treated. Many things can cause depression. But it is very important to pay attention to times in your life that can have bad outcomes. Depression doesn't just have an effect on the person dealing with it, it has an effect on friends and relatives as well. Everyone can be hurt by depression.
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