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To: muawiyah
There's no way it's in the genes.

Look at almost any honest biography. Lives are filled will all sorts of struggle, bouts of depression and such. It is a behavioral pattern producing negative emotions that can be overcome. How about an ugly gene? If you're ugly and people let you know it, that's bound to be depressing until you can overcome those thoughts.

Todays society seems to arrogantly think that life should naturally be free of pain and struggle from birth to death. And this study that says depression is genetic fits that pattern of helplessness even while we've been born into the wealthiest culture the world has ever known. It's really silly to me. It's kind of like they've decided that character is no longer an issue.
260 posted on 02/26/2006 10:57:03 AM PST by Vision ("There are no limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence" Ronald Reagan)
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To: Vision
Hey, I'm happy as a pig every single moment, and the only thing that makes it better is if I can collect a large dollar value bill.

Still, I can recognize clinical depression in someone else.

261 posted on 02/26/2006 10:58:29 AM PST by muawiyah (-)
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