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[Unedited] Anita Barrows with Krista Tippett

On Being with Krista Tippett

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Do You Have a Genetic Predisposition to Depression?

A, i think there is a genetic predisposition. And from both sides of the family. Father's sister was hospitalized for many years, actually, with depression. His father had what they called, in those days, involutional melancholya,. As a child, i thought that was a gorgeous term. Ah, and i've always been drawn to sweet and sad. Am, and i became, am, very agitated and depressed, and just sort of am, i think, a bit crazy.

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