Hello callie,
i can give you some of the biological reasons why you feel the way you do.
When you are under stress stress hormone interfere with the production of your 'happy hormone" such as serotonin. This can cause depression. Usually when the stress situation has been resolved most people start producing serotonin again and everything seems to be going alright.
However some people do not seem to recover from the stress reaction and continue to be upset and depressed. Thus the question is whether this is endogenous depression or environmental depression. Generally if you know why you are depressed it most likely to be environmental depression, but if you do not understand why you are depressed or so easily upset it could be endogenous depression.
There are many reasons how people become depressed because of physiological reasons. One is a genetic predisposition inherited from the family. The fact that you said your father is yelling at you, may indicate that he is not always in control of his emotions either.
Whether inherited or not, a lot can be done by yourself if you consider depression to be due to a health problem rather than a mental problem.
Many experts think - I believe wrongly - that depression is due to wrong attitudes and belief systems, and that you can be talked out of depression by long talking sessions with a psychologist. I believe that depressive thoughts are symptoms of an underlying biochemical disorder - contributing to depression - and not the causes of depression. Therefore you cannot be talked out of a physiological disease.
There are many biochemical reasons why people are depressed, and most of it has to do how our body produces the right neurotransmitters from the food we eat.
It has been found that many depressed people have insulin resistance (hypoglycemia) that can be treated in a change of diet. By adopting the hypoglycemic diet, we can lessen the unstable blood sugar levels, insulin and stress hormone levels that causes us so often to be emotionally upset without a proper reason.
Thus I suggest that you investigate the connection between depression and hypoglycemia and then discuss this with a therapist.
You can test yourself for hypoglycemia with the nbi at our web site. It is at:
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you can also have a full medical gtth, that can diagnose hypoglycemia. It is explained at our web site.