How Personality Affects Depression

Video Transcript

"Hi! I'm Brenda F. Dixon, the owner of Life Help Now, and we're here with Expert Village. We're spending some time talking about the causes of depression today. Another cause of depression is your personality. A person who has low self-esteem. Depending on another person's personality. Maybe a stronger personality. They're so dependent on them that they rely on them for everything. A person that's self-critical. A person that's pessimistic that can't see anything good in life. They just talk negative all the time. Those negative words just go on and on and on. This negative thinking begins to pull a person down. A person that's just overwhelmed by stress could actually be the cause of depression. A person becomes vulnerable to all these personality traits and it begins to pull them down to a depressed state. Then those chemical imbalances begin to just get lower and lower and they don't have enough to function on."