BBC News - Why do some people never get depressed?:
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Confronted with some of life's upsetting experiences - marriage breakdown, unemployment, bereavement, failure of any kind - many people become depressed. But others don't. Why is this?
A person who goes through experiences like that and does not get depressed has a measure of what in the psychiatric trade is known as "resilience".
According to Manchester University psychologist Dr Rebecca Elliott, we are all situated somewhere on a slidling scale.
"At one end you have people who are very vulnerable. In the face of quite low stress, or none at all, they'll develop a mental health problem," she says.
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