With the increasing incidence of depression in China, people's awareness of the disease is getting higher and higher, and the diagnosis is becoming more and more formal. Some parents with depression are very worried that their children will be inherited. Can depression really be inherited?
My friend's child is 15 years old this year. Friends found that she recently fell in love with school and didn't like to associate with her classmates. Now she has lost interest in what she used to like to do. My friend has an obvious family history of depression, and needs to take antidepressants all the year round, and his condition is good and bad. She was worried about whether the child would inherit, and I told her that it would really inherit.
In fact, depression is very common among teenagers nowadays. Some children have symptoms of depression since childhood, and they have never experienced setbacks in life. Medical research shows that depression is related to genetic and environmental influences and is the result of interaction.
Although it is not certain which gene depression is related to, a lot of indirect evidence points to heredity.
For example:
When one identical twin child suffers from depression in the same environment, the possibility of another suffering from depression is 75%. The depression rate of identical twins living in different environments is 65%. The probability of fraternal twins is 50%. This proves the close relationship between heredity and depression.
However, there are other family factors that determine whether you will get sick or not. Such as mental trauma, crisis and stress experienced in life. Children living in depressed families will regard this living environment as a "normal" environment, which will affect their lifestyle. Children who grow up in the same environment are different. Generally, children who are mainly responsible for the family will live more actively.
Other causes of depression are:
? Abuse: Physical abuse, sexual assault or emotional abuse experienced as a child will increase the incidence of depression. ? Some drugs, such as glucocorticoids, are associated with depression. ? Conflicts and contradictions with family members or people around them will also increase the risk of illness. ? Major events in life may induce depression, such as unemployment, divorce or retirement. Some people can recover from it, and some people will have long-term symptoms. ? Social factors, such as isolation or discrimination. ? Major diseases. ? Taking drugs. A person with genetic factors is greatly more likely to suffer from depression, but whether it comes on or not has a lot to do with environmental factors. We can't change heredity, but we can control some environmental factors.