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[quote=Anonymous]I have had several episodes of major depression throughout my life.   I thought it was organic.   No matter what I did, I was going to face bouts of depression.   But I met my husband, and have a really good, healthy, and supportive relationship with him.   (Prior to that, I had nothing but my highly dysfunctional birth family, which equals no healthy support).   So I think the change of life circumstances has really helped.  I have not had any episodes of major depression since I met him.  It's been about 15 years now.

So I do think it's very individual.   Whether the person has a diagnosis, whether s/he takes care of it, whether it's situational like mine apparently was, whether it's severe.  My brother married a woman with borderline personality disorder and there is no good to come of this.

I do worry it's genetic.   My husband is too laid back to worry about that.  One of the things I've done is to learn everything I can about healthy parenting.  Because I do think raising kids in a healthy, open, caring, and warm family situation helps tremendously.  I believe in many cases, mental illness stems from both nature and nurture.  A genetic predisposition that is somehow triggered by environment.   We can't control much for genetics, but we can do everything in our power to provide a healthy environment. [/quote]

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