[Melas]

Agreed. I suppose if there is a depression gene, then I must have a happy gene. Both notions are laughable. Emotionally traumatic events such as the death of my parents aside, I was depressed briefly at one point in my life. It had nothing to do with genes. I was living in BFE without a friend to my name, in social hell. I rectified the problem my moving back to civilization and immediately went back to hunky-dorey.

[DallasMike]

Emotionally traumatic events such as the death of my parents aside, I was depressed briefly at one point in my life. It had nothing to do with genes.

You had a brief period of situational depression, and understandably so. Imagine though having to living with a depression worse than that one every day of your life no matter what your situation was. That's clinical depression. It bears no relationship to happiness.

Clinically depressed people can be happy or unhappy. That's the part that's at least somewhat controllable about the disease. Similarly, there are plenty of very unhappy people who aren't clinically depressed at all.

The problem that many people have is equating depression with unhappiness. The two don't necessarily correlate with one another. In fact, I would argue that depression is more often the cause of unhappiness than the other way around.

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[Vision]

Thanks and you know you're right