Posted by pegasus on May 28, 2005, at 9:25:17
In reply to Re: conflictedness » pegasus, posted by fires on May 27, 2005, at 11:22:18
You said: "Most negative experiences (abuse, bad parenting, acute or long term stress, etc... don't result in depression, or any other psych disorder. "
Is that really true? Depression is extremely common in our society. The commonly cited statistic is 16% of us will experience depression, and I imagine that is pretty underreported.
And maybe it's only certain types of negative experiences, requiring certain conditions, that would lead to depression. I don't know about any research on this, it just sounds to me like a plausible explanation. I mean, you hear all the time about how someone has a depressive episode outside of the normal grief process following some experience (breakup of a relationship, death of a loved one, loss of a job, etc.).
I'm not disagreeing that depression has a physiological cause. I'm just wondering where that physiology comes from. It's interesting that depression hits different people at very different times in their lives.
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