Depression Intensifies From One Generation to the Next
Depression intensifies from one generation to the next, says a new study. The study found that nearly 60 percent of children whose parents and grandparents suffered depression experienced anxiety disorders during their prepubescent years and developed depression as they became adolescents.
That’s more than double the number of children (about 28 percent) with no family history of depression who developed anxiety and depression. Researchers from Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) and the New York State Psychiatric Institute (NYSPI) began studying 47 first-generation family members in 1982 and interviewed 86 of their children as they grew into adulthood. They then collected data from 161 members of the third generation, average age 12.
“We have shown that the risk of depression is carried through several generations, and that it intensifies as more generations are affected,” according to study author Myrna Weissman, a professor of psychiatry and epidemiology at CUMC and chief of the department of clinical & genetic epidemiology at NYSPI. “Children with a two-generation family history of depression develop anxiety disorders earlier than other children, and tend to experience more impairment,” she said.
“Children of parents and grandparents with depression are at extremely high risk for mood and anxiety disorders even when they’re very young,” Weissman said.
-Archives of General Psychiatry.
Dr. Keith & Laurie Nemec Comments: Depression
These two studies show two very important issues about health and wholeness.
1. Not only physical but mental/emotional conditions are passed generationally.
2. People entrain to the energy of those around them.
The first study showed that not only are mental/emotional conditions passed generationally but that likelihood intensifies as more generations are affected. This means if your grandmother and mother had depression, you are at an extremely high risk of developing depression, mood and anxiety disorders.
In the second study, it is seen that depressed moms (or could be dads also) tend to have more antisocial behavior as a result of the depression. Children tend to entrain to the energy of their parents. If parents are always happy, seeing the good in things and laugh a lot, the children tend to be that way also. If parents are always negative, pessimistic, depressed and antisocial, chances are high the children will resonant with the same energy.
With this all said, it is important to know that you can heal anything that you have acquired in your lifetime AND anything that has been passed to you generationally. You do not have to remain a product of your past and/or a product of your generations. How do you reverse this?
Three primary ways are:
1. Live the 7 Basic Steps to Total Health everyday of your life.
2. Renew/reprogram your mind with truth instead of lies.
3. Do not associate with toxic, negative energy people.
The Seven Basic Steps to Total Health causes the body to heal first the present, then the past and then what was passed generationally.
If your mind is reprogrammed with truth instead of the lies of the world system, then that truth can set you free from your past and the generations that were passed to you. If someone tells you that the house is on fire when in reality it is not, then because you believed the lie it caused the emotion of fear and panic which, as we spoke of previously, causes physical dysfunction and eventual disease. Now if you no not believe the house in on fire, you remain calm, do not secret adrenaline and the body stays in a state of balance. It is your choice of what to believe. Believe truth and it will bring forth health, healing and life. Believe the lies and it will bring forth dysfunction, diseases and death. The choice is always yours to make.
The rule of entrainment states that when two people come together the average person will negatively entrain downward to the low frequency/energy of the person they are with unless they are at a very high frequency themselves. Then they will positively entrain the lower frequency/energy person up to their frequency/energy. What this means is simple. While you are trying to restore or improve you total health, do not spend time being with negative/low energy emotionally toxic people. They will pull your energy down and you will start to be and feel like them. So until you are at a high frequency (shining light) keep to yourself. God and you heal you and God and you are the company you keep. Besides this anyone else who truly loves you and will die for you (i.e. your spouse or very close family or friends). Remember you are not bound by your past or what has been passed to you if you can break free from the lies of the world-filled, ego-filled, flesh-filled, lie-filled old mind.