Not to trivialize or dismiss the undeniable tragedy of your lived experience, but--yes, there is a neurological, and therefore chemical, component to trauma-in

Not to trivialize or dismiss the undeniable tragedy of your lived experience, but--yes, there is a neurological, and therefore chemical, component to trauma-induced depression. > If you get exposed to a lot of glucocorticoids, you're more at risk now for depression. You can see this epidemiologically: you get people, and statistically, before their first major depressive episode something awful stressful occurs. Have one of those first depressive episodes, due to some stressful event, you come out the other side eventually. You are no more at risk for depression than anybody else. Along comes a second major stressor, and you fall into depression, come out the other end, no more at risk than anyone else for depression. Somewhere around the fourth or fifth stress-induced depression, something happens and things start cycling on their own there and you no longer need a major stressor to cause you to get depressed like that. That's when the clocks are off and running. That's the transition.[0] Will your life ever have meaning again? Probably not, no. Not the meaning it had before those three very important people were taken from you. Probably nothing of value makes sense, anymore, not in light of their absence. What's the point of watching TV you can't talk about with them? What's the point of going on trips you can't share photos of with them? At least, that's how I've been thinking about my losses. I'm just a stranger on the internet, but if you told me life had lost its meaning I would believe you, and you would be right. ...but there is also a neurological component. 0. Dr. Robert Sapolsky, PhD, 2009 - https://youtu.be/NOAgplgTxfc?t=2165&si=P0pg-W5lOe3n0LWb https://youtu.be/NOAgplgTxfc?t=2165&si=P0pg-W5lOe3n0LWb