89. The problem here is that we have one word describing many things.
Saying "I'm depressed" is too vague to mean much. I suspect the definition is drifting away from "I'm feeling upset about something that happened" to something more clinical, but that still doesn't solve the problem. We are unfortunate to be limited by one word when we need at least two.
My own issues are almost entirely structural and chemical. Troubles I've had are symptoms, not causes. I don't become depressed because I've suffered, I've suffered because I was depressed. Cases where it is the other way around are most often the result of some failure in the depressed person's social network. The social networks in American culture can be quite disfunctional.
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