What+causes+depression?


 * Sometimes depression or a depressed mood may have no clear cause and sometimes it may be caused by a number of things (by themselves or in combination), such as:**
 * **Genetics, or a history of depression within your family**
 * **Biochemical - In normal brain function, neurotransmitters (which create mood) jump from one nerve cell to the next, with the signal being as strong in the second and subsequent cells as it was in the first. But in people who have depression, the mood creating neurotransmitters fail to function normally, so that the signal is disrupted before passing to the next nerve cell, which makes a lowering of your mood. In non-melancholic depression, it's likely that the transmission of serotonin (which improves mood and is a chemical found in the brain) is reduced or less active, whereas in people with melancholic and psychotic depression, the neurotransmitters noradrenaline and dopamine(chemicals found in the brain) are more likely to have failed or be functioning in an unusual way.**
 * **A stressful event or chain of events such as a family break-up, abuse, ongoing bullying at school, rape, a death, a relationship break up, family conflict**
 * **Personality style - Certain personality types are more at risk of depression than others. This includes people who tend to be anxious, have low self-esteem, are perfectionists or are shy.**
 * **Having a baby (called post-natal depression)**
 * **Other mental illnesses such as schizophrenia**
 * **Depression also is found to be strongly linked with youth and homosexuality, this is especially prodominant in rural towns and a high male depression rate.**
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