Daphne Merkin with TheNewYorkTimes.com recounts her struggles while battling depression, struggles that left her institutionalized several times. In the article, Merkin explores her concern about the way her depression has affected her daughter who is now 22 years old. “I know that depression is not something you catch from another person, like chickenpox,” she said. To date, there is no single genetic marker for the inheritability of depression. Studies have been able to determine “risks” for depression, but have found no concrete signifier of it in terms of parent-child “transmission.” Many think that attributing depression to genes is a blame game.
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