Posted by bulldog2 on February 22, 2007, at 14:27:52
In reply to Re: Are we culturally primed to expect too much?, posted by Squiggles on February 22, 2007, at 12:31:18
I guess that type of depression would fall under culturally primed. For sure our self esteem is often created from a comparison of our personal lives against the cultural standard.
So maybe somes episodes of depession are caused by someone who has a genetic predisposition to depression and low self esteem. In my case depression seems to run in my family. As a child with add I was teased by my peers for being short and fat. For me this was an early recipe for depression. You can make some headway with talk therapy and try to dismiss those early rejections and see you really have choices but unfortunately your also dealing with early hardwiring which subconsciouly competes with your new conscious thoughts that therapy may create.
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