Posted by Dinah on November 18, 2004, at 18:40:34
In reply to Re: Depression and Genetics, posted by Joslynn on November 16, 2004, at 9:43:35
My father suffered depressive episodes all his life, self medicating with alchohol. How I wish he would have sought help. :( All his family except his alchoholic depressed brother was dead by the time I was born. I don't know the history except that whoever didn't die of heart disease or cancer died of cirrhosis. That was one of the big killers in the family. So his family on both sides was heavy on alchoholism. I'm guessing at least a percentage of those were self medicating depressives.
My mother's side doesn't have unipolar depression. They either have manic depression with psychotic episodes or schizophrenia. My mother doesn't like to elaborate.
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