Weird Psychological Science

United Press International reports research which shows that a predisposition toward one form of mental illness can be inherited and/or learned.

Children born to mothers who had depression during or after pregnancy are nearly twice as likely as others to develop the disorder later in life, an analysis published Tuesday by JAMA Network Open found.

I'm inclined to think "inherited" but I guess you could suffer long term effects from a lack of mothering while your depressed mom was withdrawn, blue and dysfunctional. It is odd, however, that the lack would result in exactly the same disorder mom exhibited unless it's genetic.