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Depression may be an inherited condition for some people.
One may have close relatives who also have suffered from depression.
Depression can begin in the brain where messages about moving, thinking, and
feeling are relayed by electrical and chemical signals in the nerve cells.
Research has shown that people with depression may have different patterns of
signals or different amounts of certain chemicals that result in some messages
not being delivered between nerve cells. Chemical changes in the brain can
be responsible for depression. Stress may trigger chemical changes in some
people. Researchers are continuing to discover more about why chemical
changes occur and how they contribute to symptoms of depression. |
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Depression
is not a weakness or punishment. Many things can cause it. Some people can
pinpoint a single trigger event, while others experience a variety of events and
feelings related to their depression. Still others become depressed for no
apparent reason. It is not the depressed person's fault that he or she is
depressed, nor is it a weakness.
