Genetic depression… is not really ‘genetic’
What we call genetic depression is not a case of depression being passed down into the physical body via the genes - although on the surface this appears to be happening in families whose members all suffer from depression.
What is really passed from parent to child are the emotional ‘coping’ habits and the same degree of self-worth/attitude about themselves.
So if mum and dad never gave themselves permission to feel their emotions fully, or valued themselves in a healthy and nurturing way, an individual receives these messages very early on and decides that is also how they should be.
The end result is that if a lifetime of their parents not allowing themselves to feel fully would result in depression for them, would not the same way of dealing with – or more accurately, not dealing with – their own emotions eventually result in the same?
It’s important to remember that we are a blank canvas at birth. We parrot our parents behaviour and take on their beliefs and attitudes. ‘Genetic’ depression was a concept put forward as a simple explanation and grasped at by those who found the task of healing generational patterns of emotional dysfunction too daunting.
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