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Environment and depression
Stressful occurrences in one's daily life--such as job pressures, divorce, illness, money problems, and deaths of close family members or friends--all are known risk factors for depression. Social isolation or emotional deprivation as a baby or young child may lead to permanent changes in brain function that increase one's susceptibility to depression. When a person also has a family history of this illness, the likelihood of difficult life events triggering a depression is increased.
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