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• cashews_win@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Both. It can be a symptom of a larger issue or it can be a condition in its own right.

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• HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  For me it’s more of a baseline but that’s not saying much.

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• Rooskie91@discuss.online ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The easy answer is it’s both; the hard answer is it’s complicated and here’s a 2 hour long podcast scratching the surface.

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• AnneBonny@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Depression is the name for a set of symptoms. The cause of depression can be a disorder, a disease, or environmental.

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• k110111@feddit.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Its a disease, it has its own symptoms. If two people get a virus they will both catch a cold. If two people lost their job one of them might try to commit suicide while other one might only gets sad.

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• Chuymatt@kbin.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Keep in mind there are twin studies that have demonstrated the clear genetic association to depression/BP.

  This is an incredibly complex question : everything from cocaine rats to gut microbes show there are many facets to the answer, some of which we just don’t know.

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• tygerprints@kbin.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I don't think depression is quite like catching a cold, for one thing a cold is a virus and it usually goes away in about seven days. And OTC meds can help relieve the pain and nasal drip. With depression, it's a mental state and condition usually having to do with imbalances in brain chemistry and other "mechanisms" in the brain.

  And, it's also in many ways even more common than the common cold. Almost everyone has some depression at some point, and it's almost like it's hard-wired into our neurons to sometimes feel that way. So I almost think of it less as a disease and more of a condition of being human.

  There's so much stigma about it and people are afraid to admit to it, but really depression is almost as normal as hunger or thirst.

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