Workbook 
What causes depression? 
What
causes depression?
People
become depressed for a wide variety of reasons.
Research has identified a number
of factors associated with causing and continuing the depressed state. The
diagram below shows the five major factors: situation; thoughts; emotion; physiology;
and action. Each of these areas of your life can play a role in the development
of depression, and depression itself can have an impact on all of them. On
the following pages we consider each of these factors in more detail.
