# 10 Signs Your Parents are Making You Depressed

Are you miserable or depressed when you’re around your parents? When battling depression, it’s important you have a strong support system, and that includes having a supportive family. But it can be difficult when it’s your parents that are causing some of the trauma you’re trying to undo.

Suggested video(s): Things Not To Say To Someone With Depression: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihabkxaGqFs&t=0s

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- Kind: Short
- Year: 2020
- Runtime: 4 min
- By: Psych2Go
- Archive: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:10_Signs_Your_Parents_are_Making_You_Depressed.webm)
- Licence or status: [CC BY 3.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0) (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Psych2Go
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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