Causes of Depression: Examining Abuse, Conflict, and Major Life Events

This report delves into the multifaceted causes of depression, examining both environmental and genetic factors. It highlights abuse, conflict, and major life events as significant contributors to the condition. Furthermore, the report explores the impact of personal challenges, such as academic failures and unemployment, as well as the influence of serious illnesses on mental well-being. The report provides a comprehensive overview of the causes of depression, supported by references to relevant research and literature. This report is designed to provide a detailed understanding of the triggers and influences that may lead to depression.

Causes of depression
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Depression causes
Depression is possibly caused due to the following factors:-
1. ABUSE-This is a major factor which leads to depression. Abuse is something which is
intolerable for everyone whether it is young ones or the old ones. No one likes to get abused for
unnecessary reasons (Weeke et al., 2017). Sometimes certain abuses are been so intolerable that
they directly affect someone's mind and that may have a major impact on someone's mental
condition leading to steps like suicide.
2. CONFLICT-Sometimes major or minor conflicts among the people may lead to depression. It
may include conflict of interest among different persons, ego clash & sometimes due to certain
minor reasons conflict occurs such as giving false abuse of being a thief, interfering in
someone’s personal matters etc may lead to depression.
3. DEATH OR LOSS-This is one of the other factors which lead to depression. Sometimes in
someone’s family anybody passes away who was very close to someone then that person or
persons take the time to recover from that shock which is long lasting.
4. GENETICS-Depression may be the result of the genetic problem. In families where from
forefathers to current generation are been suffering from depression, it is more likely to happen
(Furnham et al., 2016).
5. MAJOR EVENTS-Sometimes major events like an accident may have a negative impact on
someone’s mind leading to depression.
6. OTHER PERSONAL PROBLEMS-Personal problems such as failure in exams, remaining
unemployed for a long time may lead to depression.
7. SERIOUS ILLNESS- Severe illness sometimes breaks the confidence of people leading to
depression.
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References
Furnham, A., Ritchie, W., & Lay, A. (2016). Beliefs about the causes and cures of
depression. International Journal of Social Psychiatry, 62(5), 415-424.Retrieved from
http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0020764016644279
Weeke, L. C., Dix, L. M., Groenendaal, F., Lemmers, P. M., Dijkman, K. P., Andriessen, P., ...
& Toet, M. C. (2017). Severe hypercapnia causes reversible depression of aEEG
background activity in neonates: an observational study. Archives of Disease in
Childhood-Fetal and Neonatal Edition, fetalneonatal-2016. Retrieved from
http://fn.bmj.com/content/early/2017/01/27/archdischild-2016-311770
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