Passing on my anxiety and depression

I can’t remember when I started feeling depression and anxiety. It seems to have been as much a part of my life as walking. And my mother, I don’t know if she can remember when she started to struggle with it, either. Nor her mother. My father, he had the same problem. He drank and took painkillers to deal with it. He died at 49. His mother took Xanax. …