The Root of Depression To the Editor: Re "Emotional Abyss; Physical Cause?" (Cases, Oct. 30): Thanks to Marlene Belfort for the brave and clear-eyed account of her struggle, fortunately successful, with depression.
Andrews and Thomson struck up an extended conversation on the evolutionary roots of depression.
"In a sense, we were already late," Gotlib said in a recent Stanford News article about his decadeslong pursuit of the roots of depression.
The paper, to be published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, is an outgrowth of research started 27 years ago by Dr. Myrna Weissman to investigate the familial roots of depression.
Recently, the application of meditative practices to the treatment of depressive disorders has met with increasing clinical and scientific interest, owing to a lower side-effect burden, potential reduction of polypharmacy, and theoretical considerations that such interventions may target some of the cognitive roots of depression.
Most often, the roots of depression can be found in that person's intimate relationship sphere, where important parts of our happiness/unhappiness live.
Dr Davey says the root cause of anhedonia, like the root cause of depression, "is incompletely understood".
In part, this might be because it can be difficult with a degenerative disease to get to the root causes of depression, which lie in not only neurochemical changes and our daily struggles, but also living with the grim prospect of an ever-roughening road ahead.
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Some of the stress factors, such as abuse, bereavement, sexual infidelity and the stress of divorce, were identified as the root causes of depression.
That's the root of the depression and the low self-confidence.
