Paris and Michael Jackson: Does Depression Run in Families?

Paris Jackson recently spoke about struggling with both depression and anxiety. When family members have the same mental health condition, is it a coincidence, the result of sharing the same household environment or evidence that the condition is heritable? Depression is "in the same class as many other complex disorders, like diabetes," in terms of its heritability, Myrna M. Weissman, a professor of epidemiology and psychiatry at Columbia University in New York, told Live Science.