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2 Causes of Depression

November 12th, 2008 · 30 Comments

Why do people have depression? Here are a snippet of two causes that may be related to this mental disorder.

One type of depression is “biological depression”, which means that there is a biochemical imbalance of some sort that causes the person to be depressed.  It usually involves the brain and a range of neurotransmitters.  Neurotransmitters are chemicals that aid different parts of the brain to communicate with each other. If these chemicals in the brain are low, then miscommunication can happen and depression may be the result.  If the cause of depression is a biochemical factor, then doctors usually prescribe medication in dealing with depression.  With medication, deep depression can be helped to “jump start” the recovery process so that the person can then do the other work of healing.  A number of people but not all have significant biochemical component to their depression; other components are involved as well, generally.

Another cause of depression is that several people could learn to be depressed.  They may have grown up in a family environment where everyone was depressed and think that these moods are normal. The same way that one would be angry if raised in an angry family; one learns to be depressed if the family was depressed.  On the other hand, it may also be that the family was normal but busy.  Parents may have taught a rule about life that they meant or not – that to get attention in the family, one must be in distress.  This may be the first step in learning “depression life style” as an attention getting behavior. So in fighting depression, all you need to do is to learn some new skills to reverse the mental condition.

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