That depends on who you ask. Many say yes, many more say no. The most sense that I’ve read suggests that the predisposition to certain levels of brain chemicals is hereditary. This article from the University of Michigan Depression Center says both.

I lean more towards the environmental. If you are a child of depressed […]

Geo’s are making a comeback! After all these years I’m finally chic 😉 Too bad I can barely afford to drive it. I seriously dislike my little car but can’t gripe about the gas milage.

Heh, such a foreign feeling to just feel good for no particular reason. I was talking to my therapist about it yesterday. I’m used to feeling guilty, ashamed, lazy, depressed, you name it. What’s with this feeling good stuff! He opened his ole textbook and started reading about discounting it when you feel good. Like […]

This article is from 2006 and I was ready to rush right out and volunteer for their study. They’ve found that pacemakers can help Parkinson patients and also depressed patients. It will be ungodly expensive if it becomes the norm I’d assume, since they insert electrodes deep in the brain.

There is another surgery done […]

I had to take another picture. I’m so refraining from feeding them a few worms myself 😉 No matter how much they eat they are always hungry.

NAMI (The National Alliance on Mental Illness) graded the states in 2006. Our country as a whole got a D. Are you surprised? I’m not, I’ve lived it. I actually checked it out before I moved. I moved from a C+ state (Michigan) to a D- state (Indiana). It wasn’t that big of a loss, […]