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by h0l0cube 1135 days ago
> I do sometimes wonder if some instances of depression aren't simply a cause of people not having families

As a child raised by a depressed and emotionally unstable parent, I have to disagree. Being well-adjusted is a good predictor for being a good parent. Even if in some cases people with mental health issues have a positive transformative experience, it's at best a dice role to treat it as therapy, and early childhood trauma is the collateral.
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nonethewiser 1135 days ago
> I do sometimes wonder if some instances of depression aren't simply a cause of people not having families

Keyword here is “some.” One instance that does not fall in this category doesnt suggest there arent some cases that do fall in this category.

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h0l0cube 1135 days ago
I saw the keyword, and as I qualified in the full comment, it’s a risk and one that shouldn’t be borne by the children
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yndoendo 1135 days ago
Replace "some" with "lucky". Is that not what STEAM often tries to do, increase the probability of a positive outcome over a negative. Improve luck.

A person does not fight cancer. A person is lucky if the cancer treatments are effective and they survive. Modern day cancer treatments increase the luck of survival.

Some depression is self induced. Always and continually focusing on the negative of thee past. Seems like top post might of had this type. Time need to support the child replaced the time to keep playing back those scenarios in their head with the continue down the road of depression. Tied with changes to their environment.

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