Kazin stated he once heard his mother say, "How sad it is," "It grips me! It grips me!" He said, "I knew she was fighting some deep inner dread.struggling against the returning tide of darkness."She asked, "Where? Where now? Where is the day taking us now?" . Kazin's mother's life became a routine, constantly feeling as if she was on a walkway leading her nowhere. Kazin's mother was not the only one affected by such an illness. Possibly Kazin might be a candidate for such an unlikely over looked disease due to its exposure at such a young age.
Kazin's mother was truly affected by depression which could also mean Kazin might be affected as well. I experienced watching my mother struggle endlessly to provide for our family everyday throughout my childhood. She always came home upset and depressed and because being exposed at such an early stage allowed me to become vulnerable to depression. Watching my mother suffer during my childhood could lead me to symptoms of depression. Lennon states in the Research Forum on Children, Families and the New Federalism that "Children at all developmental stages are vulnerable to maladjustment.when living with a depressed mother". Also, Harnish's Conduct Problems Prevention Research Group's report stated, ".that children of depressed parents are at a higher risk than children of a non-depressed parents for a number of DSM-III diagnoses, including attention deficit and conduct disorder" . The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Harnish, and Lennon all agree that by being exposed to depression will somehow affect your personality or even worse, receive some type of DSM-III disorder. However, since both Kazin and I are men, we have a less significant chance of receiving any type of ailment dealing with depression. For example, as written in Lennon's research, "Rates of depression among women are 1.5 to 3 times that of men".However, even with women having a higher rate of vulnerability, it does not exclude the fact that either I or Kazin may still be susceptible of receiving such a disease knowing that we have both been exposed to some level of depression.