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<blockquote data-quote="&#039;Lord Brown&#039;s bidding&#039;" data-source="post: 1103131" data-attributes="member: 32753"><p>What many think of as "depression"-when used correctly, not <em>sadness-</em>is properly referred to, technically at its base, as clinical depression (remember, except for emotional wrecks, everyone gets "depressed", if only to prevent greater harm). The problem with those who are clinically-depressed, or worse (manic depressive, although it is now called Bi-Polar, with two sub-classes; major depression; major depressive syndrome, etc.), is that the mechanism that restores one from a depressed state-the release of serotonin-is faulty, and they are not fully restored. Thus they stay in a state with either low-emotions or next-to-none at all. Having dealt with it, I can say you don't "feel" anything, even sad (when I was depressed I <em>wis</em><em>hed </em>I could feel sad, believe it or not). I felt dead, or more precisely inanimate, like a rock or other lifeless object, and most others describe it similarly. I would not wish it on my worst enemy; it hurts my heart to have the thought, as evil a thing as it was.</p><p> <em>Depression</em> is not hereditary (although, if we all have a common ancestor, seeing how it is natural, I guess it it!); what is is the gene that cause the mechanism to go faulty that regulates the release of serotonin. IOW, just because your mom is bi-polar doesn't mean you will be, too. You are just more susceptible to get it than someone without that gene is, but they may develop it, too, whereas you may not. My maternal-side of the family gets the gene from my grand mom, but of the 7 of them only two became bi-polar. Nonetheless, one of my mom's sisters dreaded becoming bi-polar; nonetheless, she lives a very fulfilling, engaging, exciting life as a missionary, and thus her situation-with all the excitement and positive experiences that came with it-was not conducive to developing bi-polarism, and now that she is in her 40's (depression typically is onset in one's late-teens to early-20's) the risk is virtually non-existent. How one lives their life, more so than their genes, determines one's fate regarding becoming clinically depressed.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="'Lord Brown's bidding', post: 1103131, member: 32753"] What many think of as "depression"-when used correctly, not [I]sadness-[/I]is properly referred to, technically at its base, as clinical depression (remember, except for emotional wrecks, everyone gets "depressed", if only to prevent greater harm). The problem with those who are clinically-depressed, or worse (manic depressive, although it is now called Bi-Polar, with two sub-classes; major depression; major depressive syndrome, etc.), is that the mechanism that restores one from a depressed state-the release of serotonin-is faulty, and they are not fully restored. Thus they stay in a state with either low-emotions or next-to-none at all. Having dealt with it, I can say you don't "feel" anything, even sad (when I was depressed I [I]wis[/I][I]hed [/I]I could feel sad, believe it or not). I felt dead, or more precisely inanimate, like a rock or other lifeless object, and most others describe it similarly. I would not wish it on my worst enemy; it hurts my heart to have the thought, as evil a thing as it was. [I]Depression[/I] is not hereditary (although, if we all have a common ancestor, seeing how it is natural, I guess it it!); what is is the gene that cause the mechanism to go faulty that regulates the release of serotonin. IOW, just because your mom is bi-polar doesn't mean you will be, too. You are just more susceptible to get it than someone without that gene is, but they may develop it, too, whereas you may not. My maternal-side of the family gets the gene from my grand mom, but of the 7 of them only two became bi-polar. Nonetheless, one of my mom's sisters dreaded becoming bi-polar; nonetheless, she lives a very fulfilling, engaging, exciting life as a missionary, and thus her situation-with all the excitement and positive experiences that came with it-was not conducive to developing bi-polarism, and now that she is in her 40's (depression typically is onset in one's late-teens to early-20's) the risk is virtually non-existent. How one lives their life, more so than their genes, determines one's fate regarding becoming clinically depressed. [/QUOTE]
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