(August 10, 2016 at 4:46 pm)abaris Wrote: I'm not sure if a disposition towards it can be inherited, but she certainly didn't make it easier on me. Especially in her late years.
Parents pass on genetic tendencies towards depression to their kids, but then the formative years in those kids' lives may or may not trigger those tendencies. So how the kid is raised and what things he/she has to go through in these formative years determine whether or not these tendencies will be triggered into full blown depression.
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