Causes Of Depression

Causes Of Depression

• Just as depression takes many different forms it has as many possible causes. In fact, depression is almost always caused by a combination of factors:
  • external events such as bereavement, divorce, illness, retirement, pregnancy or financial worries
  • genetics - meaning a person can inherit a tendency to become depressed
  • physiological or biochemical factors caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain
  • sometimes it is possible to point to a specific event which seems to have triggered a depression but at other times depression occurs for no apparent reason.

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