One of the biggest problems today in the treatment of depression is that there is often an insinuation that there is a defect of character involved.  It`s better than it used to be, but there is still a lot of stigma.

I would bet there is virtually zero correlation between depression and `character defects`.  

What is much more likely is there is a genetic anomaly being expressed as a result of i) exposure to toxic environments or toxic food, drugs etc ii) depletion of vitamins and nutrients because of illness, pregnancy and malabsorption and so on, or iii) other triggers.

I would bet that if we clean up our synthetic, processed, factory-farmed diets, we would see rates of depression drop dramatically.