But let me be very clear. By allowing our depressed mind to dictate what is the best concerning the treatment of our depression we actually reinforce that which is most harmful in the long term. For many of us, whether we become depressed or not, has in some ways been the luck of the draw. We cannot change our genetic heritage, nor can we change our past. Our society is so complex that much of what happens to us is outside our ability to influence or to control.
Humans have the capacity for change.
Luck is a function of random possibilities, we cannot control our luck. But we can change that which is possible, by directing our actions and thoughts in the present, thereby alleviating our need to rely on luck. We have the capacity to give direction to the randomness of that which is possible. Genetics, in regard to human behavior and the depressive response, patterns and directs environmental input, they become one and indistinguishable. If the environmental input is changed the whole can change.