How much of depression and anxiety disorders can be attributed to heredity?
Posted on Nov 05, 2008 under anxiety disorders |
Quite a bit, depending on what kind of anxiety and depression the individual is experiencing.
Often times anxiety and depression is due to drug and/or alcohol use and/or abuse. It may or may not be familiar or hereditary, but until the individual is detoxed and treated for their addiction there is no way to know if a clinical and underlying, DNA related depression exists.
One of the biggest problems for persons with depression is that they blame themselves for being depressed. Anything that's not going right in their lives they see as a reason to hate themselves, the reason for their depression and then they begin to self medicate. They drink alcohol, go to their doctor for anti-anxiety and anti-depressant drugs, often times abuse them, and or abuse street drugs. Not all depressed persons do, but a lot of them do. Especially those with little education about depression and especially those with no health insurance.
But I've moved off the original subject. Yes, depression, and even depression with substance abuse does run in families. It's still not able to be tracked by DNA, but is familial (the diseases do run in the family).
October 25th, 2007 at 9:44 pm
Lots actually, they are very genetic, but can also be "environmental and circumstantial"…… :O)
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October 25th, 2007 at 9:47 pm
it's different for everyone..
obsessive compulsive disorder is quite related to heredity.. i've met that one first hand.. my aunt has it.. my mother and sister show symptoms.. and i have it..
and depression is somewhat linked.. however depression has to do more with brain chemistry (imbalance of serotonin and dopamine mainly) and is often triggered by events..
i think that these disorders are more commonly related to environment and brain chemistry than heredity.. but it still plays a role..
sorry it's not the best answer.. but i hope it helps..
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October 25th, 2007 at 9:55 pm
Quite a bit, depending on what kind of anxiety and depression the individual is experiencing.
Often times anxiety and depression is due to drug and/or alcohol use and/or abuse. It may or may not be familiar or hereditary, but until the individual is detoxed and treated for their addiction there is no way to know if a clinical and underlying, DNA related depression exists.
One of the biggest problems for persons with depression is that they blame themselves for being depressed. Anything that's not going right in their lives they see as a reason to hate themselves, the reason for their depression and then they begin to self medicate. They drink alcohol, go to their doctor for anti-anxiety and anti-depressant drugs, often times abuse them, and or abuse street drugs. Not all depressed persons do, but a lot of them do. Especially those with little education about depression and especially those with no health insurance.
But I've moved off the original subject. Yes, depression, and even depression with substance abuse does run in families. It's still not able to be tracked by DNA, but is familial (the diseases do run in the family).
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October 26th, 2007 at 8:22 am
up to half in some cases
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