![]() ![]() Natural recovery accounted for another 25%, and the additional 50% came down to the placebo effect. Your belief in that story can sometimes create the same physical results as the treatment itself.įor antidepressants, studies show that only 25% of their positive effects were due to the chemicals themselves. ![]() For example, when you take medicine for a headache, you don’t just swallow a pill-you swallow a story about how that particular medicine can cure headaches. ![]() The idea behind the effect is that every medical treatment actually has two parts: the treatment itself and the story that goes with it. The Placebo EffectĪll of this evidence about the causes of depression points to one thing: If biology isn’t the only problem causing depression, then medication shouldn’t be the only solution to the illness. In other words, if you have a perfect life with no major disconnections, you won’t become depressed, even with a genetic predisposition to the illness. However, they’re not the biggest piece: Roughly 63% of the basis for depression comes from somewhere outside of biology.Įven if you have genes that increase your vulnerability to depression, those genes alone aren’t enough to actually cause depression-the genes have to be “switched on” by the environment. ![]() Studies show that depression is roughly 37% inherited, meaning genetics are a big piece of the mental illness puzzle. ![]()
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