Factors in depression histories.
(i can't think of the right title/keywords, but this has been on my mind a few days.
stress factors, something like that. so i'm googling and coming up with stuff that's related even if not quite what i wanted.)
(2) a strained relationship with the same-sexed parent, especially if a divorce is involved,
(4) dominant, over-protective parents using poor child-rearing practices, especially if fathers gave poor child care.
5) authoritarian parents or "do-what-you-want" parents (e.g. horoscope - too vague)
going through a divorce doubles the chances of getting depressed, particularly for women and especially whenever the breakup was traumatic or unanticipated. A recent large (n=7,300) survey at Virginia Commonwealth University by Kenneth Kendler, et al (2003) confirms that the combination of a serious loss, e.g. a love relationship, with deep personal humiliation, e.g. the “ex” quickly flaunting an attractive new partner to your friends, can be especially devastating. This kind of situation, being a potent mixture of sadness and anger or shame, is quite likely to occur in a divorce or breakup situation.
Getting plenty of good sleep may reduce depressionIncidentally, 37% of women psychologists with Ph.D.s will experience depression, so being highly educated and knowing about academic psychology apparently doesn't help avoid depression.
Women living on isolated farms are prone to depression. Anyone who is disadvantaged, put down or dominated, has skills that are unused and unappreciated, and given little control over one?s life has some right to be unhappy.Before developing sexually, boys are more likely to be depressed than girls, but afterwards girls become twice as likely to be depressed and boys turn to delinquency.
[deliquency cures depression? cuz it's fun??]In this country (and in most countries) there are about four times many men who kill themselves as women.
dysthymiaPhysicians might do better if they used a brief, simple questionnaire

On the positive side, perhaps more than half of well known poets, playwrights, and novelists have mood disorders, unfortunately several have severe manic-depression as well as great creativity and sensitivity.
loss:
oss of goals (especially after working long and hard for some achievement)
parent
divorceMartin Seligman and Gloria Steinem suggest the Baby Boomers grew up expecting the world to be a wonderful place but instead are finding it to be cold and unsupportive.
lonelinessWhat are the points here? (a) If depressed, try to recognize the losses you may be responding to. (b) Realize the intimate connection between your values and your regretted losses. (c) Try to reduce your losses, if possible. And, perhaps, join community efforts to reduce other peoples' losses--and thereby reduce your own losses.
dumpster diving - feeling alien, excluded - alien-nation
Helpless rats shocked repeatedly act depressed and lose their norepinephrine (Ellison, 1977)






first episode:
loss of job (law firm)(waiter)
loss of $$ - 50K
54 lawsuits

second:

jail
tv

shaming
attempted murder
torture
computer theft
bad court decisionsSeligman (1975) was studying escape learning and found that dogs, forced to stay in a box where they were repeatedly shocked, soon gave up and stopped trying to escape. Not surprising. Moreover, 65% of the dogs didn't try to escape the next day when the box was modified so they could easily escape. They just laid down and whined. They had learned helplessness. Seligman said human depression with its passivity and withdrawal might be due to "learned helplessness."

One social learning theory (Lewinsohn & Arconan, 1981) proposes that depression is a result of an unrewarding environment and the person's reaction to it. This is like the loss theory (1) except there is a twist: the "depressing" environment may not be painful, it may just not be any fun--it provides no pleasure, no "positive reinforcement." That could be depressing!
Coyne suggests that this sequence of events occurs: (a) some stressful events happen, (b) depression-prone people need more social support and nurturance than others when under stress, (c) but they have fewer social skills for getting the extra support needed, which worsens the depression, and (d) they start relating in ways that drive others away, which maintains the depression
some depressed people seem motivated to do poorly, have little self-control, and be depressed; depression may sometimes provide convenient excuses to ourselves and to others.

Yet, one experience was common: loss of respect for their fathers. They had once idolized their fathers, but now could not accept their fathers' values.

The hopeless person expects bad things will happen in important areas of his/her life (pessimism) and/or that hoped for good things will not happen, and he/she doesn't expect anything to change that miserable situation. - interaction w father - learned failure - expectation of pariah status
e.g. one of Seligman's better adjusted dogs in the shock box might say, "this man is hurting me, he will surely stop soon, people only shock me in this box... and I will vigorously avoid getting into this box again. For now, I'll just tough it out."
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Anger turned inward
http://mentalhelp.net/psyhelp/chap6/chap6g.htm interesting, but less concise than i wanted - was looking for a simple chart.. grief factors? stressors?