Depression - What causes it? Well - lots of things, and sometimes there just doesn't seem to be a cause. However, today's email offered a couple of reasons why people get depressed.

The Depression Blog claims that smoking ignotes depression:

People with persistent smoking habit are at an increased risk of depression than those who never smoked. This fact sprang out from a study conducted by Finish researchers, in which they analyzed a database of 4000 males and 5,000 female twins whose health and health behavior were tracked for almost 15 years.

Just another reason to quit this costly (in health as well as money) habit.

A second story gives another cause for depression. LifeSite blsmes it on divorce and marital breakdown:

Men and women were both found to have a greater risk of developing depression during the two years following the end of a marriage or committed common-law relationship, compared with couples who remained together. Twelve percent of people whose marriage ended suffered from depression in the following two years, compared to just 3 percent who stayed in the relationship.