I’ve been depressed since I was a kid. I’ve been thinking about suicide since a teen. Today, my mother says to me that she has 34 days left until she “ends it all. I suffer with suicidal thoughts. My younger sister also struggles with mental health issues and we found out last year that she was harming herself. My older sister isn’t depressed ( as far as I know), but I think she has a lot of emotional trauma. 

Today I realized my parents were depressed, especially my mother. My parents had a very volatile relationship. My mother was always crying and upset and would say things like she wants to kill herself. My father just checked out of being a father and a husband. None of us speak to him. They both had rough childhoods that dealt with poverty and abandonment, they were both the oldest and had to grow up fast, then they became teen parents and I think also did not fully grow up into their own.

I searched the correlation between depressed parents and depressed kids and it turns out having depressed parents significantly increases the likelihood of the children being depressed. I have never thought of this.

Who here had a depressed parent?