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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was dx'd with clinical depression at 12---it was v clearly a chemical imbalance, no environmental factors. It took five meds to find the right one, and several bad therapists before we found one that works.  It's always going to be there, I'll probably always be on meds, but it's manageable.[/quote]
I don't think you understand "enviornmental" factors. Everyone has them. It's a long process to learn which ones weren't positive.[/quote]

I had a happy childhood and a very supportive family, no history of abuse or PTSD or anything. But thanks for telling me about my own mental health, I totally appreciate the insight from a random anonymous stranger on the internet. [/quote]
Good thing you isolated your bad luck gene.
Incredible that the family you inherited the illness from, was perfect in every way.
Truly amazing!
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I'm not saying they were perfect, but that my issue was obviously a genetic mutation and not situational.  Blaming families for medical conditions doesn't help the stigma that surrounds mental illness.[/quote]
It's so unfortunate that you feel this is about "blaming". It's about learning the truth. There is no perfect parenting. Not your parents. Not my parents. And certainly not me.

Let's just be honest. We all could have been better.
If only we knew.

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Um, the truth about depression is that it can be caused by a chemical imbalance you nutjob.[/quote]

PP needs to know more about depression. It causes cognitive distortion, so you can start with a physical illness (depression triggered by hormonal changes, for example), but then to attach the physical illness to causes that are unrelated (marital problems, financial problems, hangnails, etc.) and decide the illness is caused by these ordinary things. Every human being has problems of one sort or another, some large, some small, most in the middle, but there's no avoiding them, and most problems do not cause depression. (Some people go through horrific experiences and end up without depression or mental illness.) The cause and effect of depression is not clear because as I mentioned, depression causes cognitive distortion, ie your thinking and rational understanding of your experiences becomes distorted by your depression, and you begin to blame what is a chemical issue in your brain on external issues (like your husband or your job or your kids), which all of us have to one degree or another.

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