>If your child is depressed then you'd better consider their environment and social networks to be suspect. If you can't identify problems, then YOU ARE the pro

>If your child is depressed then you'd better consider their environment and social networks to be suspect. If you can't identify problems, then YOU ARE the problem I don't know your personal story in detail, but with this, you seem to focus way too definitively on external causes for depression. There's ample clinical and other evidence that many cases of chronic depression are largely internal, chemical and won't be fixed by changes in environment, surrounding people etc.