I just don’t get why we blanket everything under genetics.. Can that actually be proven? For instance with depression, I often hear yeah it’s genetics, nothing to be done but medication. But if a parent raises a child while battling depression, how on earth would they be able to show up fully to be able to raise a healthy, emotionally supported child? If we know adverse childhood experiences and emotional neglect changes the brain, then how is it supposed to make the right amount of chemicals? So when it’s said depression is genetics, how did they actually prove that for instance?
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There are many diseases with firm genetic foundations. We know that if you have a certain mutation of a certain gene you’re much more likely to get the disease. Sickle Cell Disease and Cystic Fibrosis Liver Disease are examples.
Depression is a mental illness. Mental diseases are never as well understood as the other diseases, because the brain is much more complex than a blood cell. Whenever you read that the “cause” of a mental illness has been identified, you’re reading a ridiculous oversimplification. This is why we can’t treat mental illness as effectively as other diseases or broken bone.
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