My grandmother suffered from depression and was hospitalized for it. My mother (her daughter) was not clinically depressed, but moody and later suffered from anxiety-based angina. My youngest sister committed something akin to suicide, but not killing herself, she 'wrecked' her car hoping to be put into a coma...she just got bumped up.
My history of depression I've gone over and I (along with my youngest sister) suffered through post-partem depression and mine, at least, bordered on psychosis( warped imaginings, fear of or thoughts of harming the baby).
Interestingly enough, our only brother is the only one we could consider 'sane'.
Whether it's just a female thing or not, I can't say. The only one who has not sought prefessional help is my mother, although she keeps harping on how great it is and everyone else should seek it.
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