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A recent study found that disorders, such as depression, can run in the same family. What valuable insight about mood disorders can be inferred from these results? Health professionals should exclude family history when diagnosing mood disorders. Both family history and external factors can trigger the onset of depression and bipolar disorder. Children are unlikely to receive a mood disorder diagnosis if their parents were previously diagnosed. When looking at a family tree, mood disorders rarely appear across several ancestral lineages.

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Both family history and external factors can trigger the onset of depression and bipolar disorder.

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Both family history and external factors can trigger the onset of depression and bipolar disorder.

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Mental disorders such as depression, schizophrenia or bipolar disorder can be triggered by the environment ( stressful situations, traumatic experiences, problems to adapting to new stages in life, etc) or by genes that the parents and ancestors carried and they descendants inherited.

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